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Gold Panda is a 28-year-old London fellow named Derwin. ("I just call myself Derwin Panda for the moment," he says.) He caught our attention recently with the striking "Quitters Raga", a chopped-up burst of samples and clicks that beats Four Tet at his own game. If there's anything wrong with the track, it's the brief, two-minute run time-- "so short it breaks your heart," wrote our own Mark Richardson.