― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 6 May 2004 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Either way, even if it gets great, i'll be putting my copy up on ebay as soon as i'm done reviewing it, if anyone's interested...
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 7 May 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― does that make you want to touch yourself? (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
so good
never realized how drastically the tone changes starting with disc three, this is the first time I've listened to it all in one sitting.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
yikes, just looked this up on amazon and the cheapest used one is going for a mere $177.
― Robert Necrofrost, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
just read that pan sonic have split
http://www.phinnweb.org/panasonic/news/
this makes me rather sad but there is supposedly a final album out shortly
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"yikes, just looked this up on amazon and the cheapest used one is going for a mere $177."
zoinks! i like this album, but, um...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
one just sold for 57 bucks on ebay. hmmmm....
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
if that was the only conceivable way to obtain it then $177 would be worth paying
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't ever listen to it. but i do like it as an artifact. and i did enjoy listening to it, like, once or twice. i dig them. i liked the album that came out before it even more. still kinda mad at myself that i didn't buy that live album on vinyl when i saw it years ago. owning a live pan sonic album on vinyl just seems cool to me for some reason.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
their albums have a sort of palpable analogue heaviness that makes you think they deserve to be artifacts rather than some flac files or w/e
kesto has had great longevity imo
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Only albums I've found and heard so far are Aaltopiiri and the live one with Keiji Haino from last year. Love the former; the latter I haven't really latched onto yet, but that's how a lot of Haino stuff can go.
What should I check out next?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
*A* was the album i really liked. from 1999.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
one of those groups that definitely brings back lsd sense memories for me. pan sonic, so good i can taste them!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
recently pulled out the Charlemagne Palestine collabo ...
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:44 (7 hours ago)
LOL this was mine, I burned it.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Kesto is great because there are four whole discs in the box! and there are pictures on each! and each disc is pretty different from the others!
I should pull this out.
― mh, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I willn't sell my copy of this album ever but I have to say I love Pan Sonic more when they're hardly barely there than when they're beating the shit out my head with dustbin lids.
― National Sockpuppet Helpline (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Am regretting not buying this when it was wide in the open before, maybe I`ll take a look at some other places when I do my next CD scavenge.
― EDB, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 01:55 (fourteen years ago) link
forty something euros on discogs currently seems about right
just picked up this gem recently http://www.discogs.com/Kentolevi-Keimola-EP/master/75858
despite the sahko revival being (sadly) well and truly over - just that brutal post-industrial beat tool thing that mika vainio does best
then picked up a copy of the pansonic collabo with bruce gilbert from wire on mego, really minimal and rhythmic industrial music, no beats.
i wonder if jamal moss is aware that he got beaten to the IBM name by a couple of years
― anita bonghit (rionat), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
that kentolevi ep is highly recommended btw if you like the corroded dancehall styles of panasonic circa "urania" but even more pared down and singular. so sick
― get a goal (rionat), Friday, 26 February 2010 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link
pulled this out the other day from cds i had in storage to try and undo the harm my ears have undergone by itunes claims circa 2005 that 160kbps is 'better than cd quality'. great album, i thought the ambient pieces were weak initially but i guess i just have more patience these days
― straightola, Friday, 26 February 2010 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Final album next month, Gravitoni.
http://blastfirstpetite.com/pansonic-gravitoni.html
― StanM, Thursday, 8 April 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
11 pan finale
fuck
there'll be plenty from mika and probably ilpo vaisanen separately i'd guess
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 8 April 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
mika vainio playing live in london next weekend
― phat vintage shit (r1o natsume), Thursday, 8 April 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Did anyone see anything confirming this Gravitoni album that's supposed to be out next month, other than that one page on blastfirstpetite.com?
― StanM, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blastfirstpetite.com/ now says: OUT NOW!
er... where the f can I order it then?
― StanM, Saturday, 1 May 2010 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Out on June 7th, says Cargo Records. Preorder available. Also: SAMPLES (can't get the second one to play here)
http://www.cargorecords.co.uk/release/11803
Pansonic – Mika Vainio & Ilpo Vaisanen. All hail the unsmiling Finns. “After this Pansonic goes into deep freeze” says Vainio. In one of his more loquacious moments. Eleven new tracks of their trademark warm, deep, muscular sound that acts as personal trainer to your speaker cones. Gravitoni , their seventh son born as a duo since 1995. No live shows whatsoever are planned to celebrate their fifteen year run at the forefront of expanding the electronic music scene.(although ilpo would still like to play in africa some day soon).
― StanM, Saturday, 1 May 2010 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha I'm amused by this Finnish rep for taciturnity, doesn't correlate with the evidence around here but w/e
Srlsly looking forward to this
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 1 May 2010 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
wicked. can't wait. just got the recent Mika solo too but haven't had time to listen...
don't know about you guys but i want more Ø.
unlikely he'll ever revisit more conservative dance formulas but anything can happen.
― zoom, Monday, 3 May 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
the last track off his 'vandals' ep from last year was a sort of 4/4 electro thing
― nakhchivan, Monday, 3 May 2010 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Voltos Bolt is on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/blastfirstp
― StanM, Thursday, 13 May 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Woohoo! Gravitoni was in my mail box today! (ordered it from blastfirstpetite.com only last week)Just skipped through it and I'd say the first half is quite noisy, the second half starts out quieter and gets harder progressively. But don't take my word for it, buy it yourself. :-)
― StanM, Monday, 17 May 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
It's already my favourite album of theirs, I think.
― StanM, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
First post-Pan Sonic solo release: a Mika Vainio single on an Austrian label
http://derstandard.at/1271377655319/Austro-Finnische-Freundschafthttp://www.discogs.com/Mika-Vainio-Its-A-Muthang/release/2297633
― StanM, Friday, 4 June 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Studio collaboration with Haino Keiji, recorded in 2007
http://www.blastfirstpetite.com/pansonic-haino-studio.html
― StanM, Monday, 7 June 2010 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
(that one appears to have leaked, btw)
― StanM, Monday, 7 June 2010 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
love the concrete ish penultimate track on gravitoni
― nakhchivan, Monday, 9 August 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Mika Vainio is kind of a hero of mine
― MIA Deren Brown Sugar Ray Leonard Cohen Afterworld (admrl), Thursday, 23 September 2010 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/264792/Mika+Vainio.jpg
Way better picture than "two guys in duffle coats standing in front of a modernist building". Badass tats!
― MIA Deren Brown Sugar Ray Leonard Cohen Afterworld (admrl), Thursday, 23 September 2010 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Gravitoni is a terrorizing album. Best of 2010 so far. Still feel ill at times listening to it. Katodivaihe sounds much more fun in comparison, but not as good.
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Thursday, 23 September 2010 07:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah gravitoni is great, probably my favourite so far this year
― E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 September 2010 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link
giving this a spin sight unseen
opening track is some groovy sociopathy
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 23 September 2010 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
which one? kesto is probably the best album of the last decade
― E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
gravitoni
am liking this a lot, although the otherwise wonderful track 3 could stand to go on for 20 more minutes - I gather they've done their fair share of ultraextended composition so I guess to scratch that itch it's a question of trawling the archives (all of Kesto is on Spotify...)
holy mother of god, track 4 kicked in and now I realise why track 3 had to end
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
― MIA Deren Brown Sugar Ray Leonard Cohen Afterworld (admrl), Thursday, September 23, 2010 5:10 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
he's incredibly stylish right? gotta admire the beauty of that combination. i like to think he wears that outfit every single day and owns a walk in wardrobe full of plain black tees, black levis, and doc marten shoes. extremely cool
― lao gan ma (r1o natsume), Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
what happens when it is very cold :(
this album seems to be getting fiercer with each subsequent track - it's accelerating into an exothermic vortex at almost exactly the right pace, and makes me to lament why I sleep on this kinda thing for so long - also it makes me cherish Spotify, for all its horror
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
These guys passed me by a little but RIP. What's the best record to start with?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 16 April 2017 12:45 (seven years ago) link
The quadruple lp Kesto of the thread title is a good place to start imo, at least it was my gateway album to them.
― calzino, Sunday, 16 April 2017 13:06 (seven years ago) link
Kesto is huge, yeah, and a lot of it is good. For something more compact, I actually find Gravitoni really enjoyable and inviting. A was the first thing I heard by them and it made me turn my head; I haven't listened to it in years: I wonder how it would hold up.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Sunday, 16 April 2017 13:33 (seven years ago) link
Pan Sonic live in NYC, 1998. Alan Vega joins in at the end. fantastic. https://soundcloud.com/djspaceysissick/panasonic-pan-sonic-w-alan-vega-live-at-coney-island-high-oct-30th-1998
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 16 April 2017 13:45 (seven years ago) link
I could really do with blasting out Kesto at ear-splitting volume right now, but I have a new neighbours and they are so charming and brought some cake around yesterday. I won't do it to them!
― calzino, Sunday, 16 April 2017 13:47 (seven years ago) link
do it FOR them
― j., Sunday, 16 April 2017 14:19 (seven years ago) link
sounds like a plan!
― calzino, Sunday, 16 April 2017 14:53 (seven years ago) link
Gravity still rocks so hard, what a track!
― calzino, Sunday, 16 April 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
I think my peak interest in these was back in '05 and I can't remember which other albums I liked best at the time. But I can remember one track that made me think if they ever made a movie about the Kursk submarine disaster - this would be the soundtrack.
― calzino, Sunday, 16 April 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
i like pan sonic a lot but i prefer vainio's solo work as Ø
check out the compilation tulkinta, the albums metri and olento and then move on to the album oleva
― the late great, Sunday, 16 April 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
man all I have is Tulkinta (which I love), gotta pick up some of those other ones
see also: Philus
― sleeve, Sunday, 16 April 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
RIP. Was lucky enough to see Pan Sonic twice ... or maybe only once, depending on your definition. The first time was just before they changed their name, the second time was a couple of years later but they walked off stage about five minutes into their set because the acoustics of the venue weren't to their liking. The promoter was pissed and had to refund everyone's money. AFAIK they never played again in Toronto after that.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 16 April 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
man it felt like there'd just always be a steady stream of hq noisy techno coming out from vainio for the rest of my life. r.i.p. miss this dude a lot already :-/
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 16 April 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
fearless artist, much respect, RIP
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 16 April 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
Paul Smith on Mika: http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/04/mika-vainio-rip
― Position Position, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
very good, thx
― sleeve, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-1252017-hour-2-panasonic-live-1996
― StanM, Monday, 22 May 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
Hey, nice
https://boilerroom.tv/microsite/sahko-the-movie/
Artfully shot on 16mm by Jimi Tenor in 1995, Sähkö The Movie - a title fans have given the film in the absence of any official one - is a suitably abstract portrayal of the singular label in its prime. Finnish artists featured include Sähkö co-founder Tommi Grönlund, Mono Junk, Hertsi, IFÖ, and, of course, Mika Vainio himself.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 August 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
oh man, I forgot that they were going to be premiering that
apparently it was either shown or released very briefly years ago but it seems like a great, if sad, time to really bring it to prominence. I've heard it's pretty great.
― mh, Thursday, 10 August 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
https://editionsmego.bandcamp.com/album/net
Ilpo Väisänen returns to Editions Mego under the guise of I-LP-ON with an immense tribute to the outfit he played in alongside his friend and former creative partner Mika Vainio.
ÄÄNET takes inspiration from the life of PAN SONIC, the outfit they inhabited for over 2 decades. Recorded in Kuopio, Barcelona and Karttula, ÄÄNET is made up of a series of minatres that harness the many shadows this legendary act absorbed: Industrial, ambient, dub and club all figure into this edgy slow burning menace of a release. Featuring recordings made on the 2000 PAN SONIC world tour Väisänen has crafted a unique homage to the outfit which redefined experimental electronic music by embracing pulsing club aesthetics coupled with more abstract avant garde tendencies.
The seismic fingerprint left by PAN SONIC avoids dating and genre identification finding a new definition here both as a nod to a notorious past whilst laying the groundwork for reigniting something utterly contemporary. ÄÄNET is an essential release of Väisänen’s as it allows further expansion and broadening of the paths carved out from this resolutely unique form of scratchy and sublime electronic music.credits
released November 9, 2018
― j., Thursday, 22 November 2018 07:34 (five years ago) link
just listening to it now, excellent.
― calzino, Thursday, 22 November 2018 09:32 (five years ago) link
it is!
― StanM, Friday, 23 November 2018 11:23 (five years ago) link
I've been meaning to check these guys out for ages, now jumping in by listening to A for the first time. This is incredible, some of the most *future* music I've ever heard. It's glitchy and techno-y but nothing about it feels dated or tied specifically to the "glitch era." I'll tackle Kesto eventually, but can anyone give a rundown of the other stuff?
― J. Sam, Friday, 5 November 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
A is my favorite, Kesto is my 2nd favorite, not as big a fan of Kulma, the B EP is almost as good as A, and def check out Mika Vainio's solo work
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
I am also partial to the austere Vainio side projects Philus and (ought sign) whatever the ASCII code is for that
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
Ø
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
Kesto is basically "here's four different albums showing four different sides of our approach"