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- Summary: The fourth solo release from the Norwegian artist/producer is a two-disc (or four LP) album of instrumentals influenced by 90's ambient music.
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- Record Label: Smalltown Supersound
- Genre(s): Electronic, Ambient, House, Downtempo, Pop/Rock, Club/Dance, Alternative Dance, Neo-Disco, Ambient House
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Mar 2, 2016You can spot similarities and name-check influences throughout, but Principe Del Norte still stands as Hermansen's most distinctive and satisfying record to date.
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Feb 18, 2016Like his pioneering UK heroes, this hour-long LP works best lost in the moment with your ears nestled between a pair of good speakers and your head in the clouds.
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Mar 23, 2016A record which brings us to a high watermark in electronic music and bravely sets us on a course toward the future.
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Feb 17, 2016Principe doesn’t carve any revolutionary niches on or off the dance floor so much as it patiently, oh so patiently, chips away at Thomas’ own reputation as a space-disco purveyor
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MagnetMar 30, 2016It does function gorgeously as a lush, entrancing mood piece, one that might pleasantly percolate along in the background, but could just as easily hold you rapt in the detailed folds of its layered, continuously evolving subarctic suites. [No. 129, p.61]
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UncutFeb 17, 2016Flashbacks to The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld and the KFL's Chill Out are inevitable, but there are woozy hints of early Black Dog on "C," too. [Mar 2015, p.77]
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Feb 17, 2016Much of Principe's second half finds him repackaging the first half with plodding disco beats that make the initially exciting melodies seem boring the second (and third, and fourth) time around.