We're heading out of town this weekend to meet the macaques, but if you are sticking around, it would probably be worth trying to build a visit to Cargo into your Saturday night festivities. Entry to the Eat Your Own Ears promoted event on the 20th is free before 11, and onstage at 9pm will be the debut live appearance from Walls, the new collaboration between our mate Sam from Allez-Allez and his mate Alessio from Banjo or Freakout. The industrious duo will be releasing an album on Kompakt later this year, and from what we have heard so far it should be a goody, so I'd fix that live show into your agenda even if you do have to rush off elsewhere later on...

But if you can handle a whole night in Cargo, later in the evening the Pantha du Prince album promotion train will be pulling into its London stop off. New album Black Noise sees the Prince's prestigious new home Rough Trade dabbling in the electronic arts with some Dial-esque chuggy twinkles and a much-hyped Panda Bear guest appearance. I think it comes across a bit like a less warm and snuggly version of our own old romantic Fairmont, whereas Rough Trade had this to say about it:

"On his new album, Pantha du Prince claims: music slumbers in all matter; any sound, even silence, is already music. The mission, then, must be to render audible what is unheard and unheard of: 'Black Noise', a frequency that is inaudible to man. 'Black noise' often presages natural disasters, earthquakes or floods; only some animals perceive this calm before the storm. 'black noise' is something archaic and earthy. His music balances precariously on the slippery threshold between art and nature, between techno and folklore, which lends it a certain spectral and intangible aspect."

Listen online and make up your own mind.

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