ALBUM: SELLING – ON REFLECTION

Selling is the new band formed by dance music pioneer Gold Panda and Jas from electro rockers Simian Mobile Disco, and as you’d expect it’s packed to the rafters with all manner of techno wizardry and huge beats. I’m not a massive techno or dance music aficionado, I just like certain albums or songs, yet […]

Gold Panda’s latest album takes it’s name from the parting words of a Japanese taxi driver, while visiting Hiroshima. This collection of tunes, made in Chelmsford, comprises samples and memories of his trip, along with accompanying photo’s from his travel companion, Laura Lewis. It’s been 6 years since his impressive debut ‘Lucky Shiner’, and his progression as […]

ALBUM – GOLD PANDA ‘GOOD LUCK AND DO YOUR BEST’

NEWS: NIGHT WORKS – ‘I TRIED SO HARD’ VIDEO + GOLD PANDA REMIX

Night Works create, in their own words, make-out music for the end of the world. The mood is pitched right at the crest of the wave – the moment where everyone in the room realises that they’ve played high stakes and lost: the hands are revealed, and everyone’s been bluffing all along. We all have […]

– THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER – The Manchester gig scene is spoiled for choice tonight. For a Monday the line up is truly epic. This may go some way to explaining the lack of heads in The Ruby Lounge tonight. Gold Panda (Derwin) is deservedly receiving heavy praise for his debut album which is likely […]