Pan Sonic Kesto

what the hell

RIP

fuck

Jesus..

Man, that's a shock. Figured he would just keep on for decades. Never did see him or Pan Sonic live in the end, and now regret it.

In recent years I thought his Konstellaatio and Kilo albums were both so great, and still not sounding like much else.

RIP

Have listened to so much Ø stuff this year, I think that project was some kind of platonic ideal of minimal techno.

absolutely, agreed

Man

I was able to see him live once and was sad when he cancelled an appearance at a festival I was at a couple years later because I was really looking forward to seeing him again. Such an incredibly influential musician

Absolutely huge loss. :(

R.I.P.

Genuinely gutted.

terrible news

RIP

RIP. The first ever laptop-only performance I saw was him, Peter Rehberg and Christian Fennesz at the LMC experimental music festival in London, 1998 I think. All the crusty old jazz dudes walked out within about 5 minutes, it was great.

this is bullshit and rong

pan sonic rule forever

really devastated by this.

Have listened to so much Ø stuff this year, I think that project was some kind of platonic ideal of minimal techno.

indeed. i think he helped kill my love of techno as almost everything that came afterwards felt old and redundant in comparison, to my ears.

kuvio 4 eva

Such a shock. I've had Kulma (sides C and D) sitting on my turntable for the last 48 hours and disc 4 of Kesto was sat in the CD player overnight so that's a bit freaky. It's not like I listen to his work all the time but I had a binge this week.

RIP.

Reports coming in that he died accidentally while on holiday in France.

:-(

Simply gutted by this. All the Ø stuff is so great already, but Kesto was essential, formative for me. He had so much brilliant music in him still. We'll never get to know it. RIP.

I've been listening to 'Virta 1' on repeat. It's taken on an almost requiem-like quality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZL1V06Er1E

53? Awful. RIP.

http://www.sashafrerejones.com/diary/2017/4/13/a-memory-of-mika-vainio

Why bother linking to that tripe?

ok.

oh come on, that story is great

it's a good story!

also I'm cracking up remembering the mixed reactions on ilm to autechre having russell haswell as an opener recently

Yeah, that is a good story, sorry Albert.

I've never really paid much attention to Russell Haswell but isn't he basically just a try-hard dickhead?

Bjork drops in on Mika in his Barcelona flat:
https://twitter.com/i/videos/853284310652141568

magical

That's beautiful.

What documentary or series is that from? Did Bjork do more of these?

These guys passed me by a little but RIP. What's the best record to start with?

The quadruple lp Kesto of the thread title is a good place to start imo, at least it was my gateway album to them.

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.

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

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!

do it FOR them

sounds like a plan!

Gravity still rocks so hard, what a track!

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.

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

man all I have is Tulkinta (which I love), gotta pick up some of those other ones

see also: Philus

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.

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 :-/

fearless artist, much respect, RIP

Paul Smith on Mika: http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/04/mika-vainio-rip

very good, thx

https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-1252017-hour-2-panasonic-live-1996

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.

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.

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.
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released November 9, 2018