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Back to school
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Paint By Numbers

She is Kathy Compton and she is a leo He is Thierry Holweck and he is insane. They are panda transport and they fight like brother and sister. She wanted to be a pussycat, a witch or an astronaut, he a globetrotter or a shepard in the alpes. She became a chanteuse and writer of jazz and pop, he a punk electro experimental musician. Polar opposites but drawn together by a lust to become acquainted with the unknown. Their meeting was not self evident in a world where cultures fight to guard themselves from foreign ideas, but every good person knows that a mixed race baby is the most beautiful thing 2 people can create. They are a by product of the global village, creating music where jazz phrasing coupled with simple melodies is set upon a sonic soundscape of deceptively complex harmonies and tiny sounds; astral lounge. The notion of travel remains central to their nomadic lifestyle, most of the songs from it were composed on the road in europe or the states, in motels alongside the highway, as opposed to the comforts of a proper recording studio, utilizing dilapidated laptops and wires strewn about. The product is more natural sunlight than well placed studio lighting. It is human music for human people.

Kat and Ti's varying tastes in musical styles are what dictates Panda Transport's sound- a melange of electronic and natural instrumentation, utilizing vocal harmonies, theramin, flute, vocoder, guitars, wood percussion, synths and toys.

Panda Transport formalized in september of 2006 when work begain in earnest to record material for the debut album. since then, we have travelled both extensively in Europe with members of Add N to X and in the U.S. recently supported Girl Talk.. Between March and June 2007, we have played 25 shows.

Their video "Back to School" will be published on the DVD "la B.O. de Lyon", distributed by the city of Lyon and with the magazine Les Inrocks june 2008. The video will be broadcast on TF1, french national TV channel on a show dedicated to the web and called WATTV, may2.

Their interpretation of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was released on Dope Beat compilation (Play It Again Sam Records) this February and is now enjoying airplay on french national radio, France Inter.

"Paint by Numbers" was playlisted on SR, the National Swedish radio, May 14 2007..

"Paint by Numbers" appears on Agoon-agoon compilation featuring the Dirty Princess (Gigolo Records), Pureape (Alpine Chic Records.), and Risqué (Substream Records), among others.

In 2006, Philippe Petit, Bip-Hop Records label manager, and member of Strings of Consciousness signed on Barry Adamson’s label, CCI/Mute Records requested Panda Transport create a remix for his upcoming release, entitled “Deviasonist”.

The talented techno producer Bart Thissen(Wolfskuil Records-Netherland) has recently done a remix of "Paint by Numbers".

Pantrans is touring in 2008 in North America and Europe in support of their new full length release.

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Some Presse

C-Ville Mag, Brendan Fitzgerald

In all honesty, Bastille Day has about as much to do with music as Amy “Crackhouse” Winehouse currently does. Come to think of it, the Bastille—a French prison during the reign of Louis XVI—might’ve made a nice rehab joint. The thing is, a good beat trumps a bad party, no matter the occasion. It holds true for Amy Crimehouse, and it sure as hell counts for Panda Transport, who ring in the holiday with a pair of performances at Zinc. Kathy Compton—one half of Panda Transport, one-fifth of Straight Punch to the Crotch and one saucy vocalist—left me a copy of Plush Mechanique, the band’s second proper record, last week. Compton and her Panda partner, Thierry Holweck, began recording together in 2006, but hit their stride recently, nabbing an opening spot for mash-up magician Girl Talk and won a bit of love from the music monarchs at The Onion. (Not an easy crowd to please.) No bears allowed: Panda Transport plays a rare gig at Zinc to celebrate the release of its new record, Plush Mechanique. That the band plans to release Plush Mechanique at a space as small as Zinc is miraculous, a hometown treat thanks presumably to Straight Punch’s increasingly crowded gigs at the bistro franco, and your best reason for celebrating French independence since Daft Punk paired up with Kanye West for “Stronger.” A good deal of the songs on the record buzz with the sort of minimal drum machines and synthesizers that Radiohead swiped from lesser-known techno acts, and more get close to that synth-pop pleasuredome occupied by Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard’s side project, The Postal Service.

The Hook(USA)