Gold Panda - TON UP Basement The fusion of Caribbean rhythm

The fusion of Caribbean rhythm elements into an R&B context demonstrates Connors’ willingness to experiment with global sounds while keeping things soulful and danceable

From the crushing burden of existence to spectral wanderings through forgotten landscapes

and Lindsey-Paige McCloy (Patio)

Influences from everyday listening – from Brazilian music and electronic records to film soundtracks – remain deliberately submerged

His music is immersive and though he grapples with the accelerated passing of time and the rapidity of changes therein

Gold Panda - TON UP Basement The fusion of Caribbean rhythmGold Panda returns with TON UP, a brilliantly stubborn new album for Studio Barnhus: eight rough hewn dance tracks and two cozy little service station interludes, all crafted with the robust determination of a producer who knows that 140 bpm is not so much a tempo as a way of life. Made with Derwin Dickers unmistakable sampler bashing touch, the tracks on TON UP carry the raw knock of old school hip hop instrumentals, pushed through pumping house