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Gold Panda gets TON UP and swaps home-listening wisdom for hot little house jams
By Editorial Team - June 25, 2026
Summary
Pitchfork reviews Gold Panda’s TON UP, a fast, unpretentious Studio Barnhus set that turns the producer’s reflective electronica into revved-up house motion.
Key Facts
- Category: News
- Published: June 25, 2026
- Tags: gold panda, ton up, studio barnhus, electronic, house, pitchfork review, House / Electronic Review
Gold Panda’s TON UP receives 25 June review attention, and the joy is that it sounds like Derwin Dicker decided midlife should come with less calm and more engine noise. After years of opalescent, contemplative electronic music in the orbit of Four Tet, J Dilla and Susumu Yokota, TON UP reportedly takes a sharp left into fast, unpretentious house jams. The record moves around 140 BPM, packed with cut-up machine beats, hand percussion, stubby bass hits and red-lining riffs that make the music feel like it might skid off the road. That looseness is the charm. Gold Panda could have made another beautiful headphone record about maturity and therapy. Instead, he made something closer to a dirt bike doing donuts in the car park. TON UP sounds simple, fast and wonderfully un-grown-up in all the right ways.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/gold-panda-ton-up/