Pan Sonic Kesto

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

Final album next month, Gravitoni.

http://blastfirstpetite.com/pansonic-gravitoni.html

11 pan finale

fuck

there'll be plenty from mika and probably ilpo vaisanen separately i'd guess

mika vainio playing live in london next weekend

Did anyone see anything confirming this Gravitoni album that's supposed to be out next month, other than that one page on blastfirstpetite.com?

http://blastfirstpetite.com/ now says: OUT NOW!

er... where the f can I order it then?

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).

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

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.

the last track off his 'vandals' ep from last year was a sort of 4/4 electro thing

Voltos Bolt is on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/blastfirstp

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. :-)

It's already my favourite album of theirs, I think.

First post-Pan Sonic solo release: a Mika Vainio single on an Austrian label

http://derstandard.at/1271377655319/Austro-Finnische-Freundschaft
http://www.discogs.com/Mika-Vainio-Its-A-Muthang/release/2297633

Studio collaboration with Haino Keiji, recorded in 2007

http://www.blastfirstpetite.com/pansonic-haino-studio.html

(that one appears to have leaked, btw)

love the concrete ish penultimate track on gravitoni

Mika Vainio is kind of a hero of mine

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!

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.

yeah gravitoni is great, probably my favourite so far this year

giving this a spin sight unseen

opening track is some groovy sociopathy

which one? kesto is probably the best album of the last decade

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

Way better picture than "two guys in duffle coats standing in front of a modernist building". Badass tats!

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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

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

http://www.fullcaffeine.com/foto/pansonic_02.jpg

yall h8ing on ilpo

speaking of ilpo, the hertsi record that got reissued on sahko this year is nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di4cwV5ZR4c

gonna just throw a bone into the void in case any of you space-cadets are manning the spyglass

Has anyone heard "I, Thighpaulsandra" yet?

anyway gravitoni was eerie and dope

now commencing kesto which will be listened to over the snooker

Pakoisvoima = :D

HALFWAY THERE YOU GUYS

this is soooo good

kesto is pretty amazing. especially love the first two discs and the way they play with tweaking the degrees of harshness for similar structures. feel like I haven't managed to crack the third one with the long silences yet but I rarely put it on. and the last is a nice comedown.

still listen to this on the regular.

how much can i get for this set?

I got a bit over $50.

on ebay?

Me too. Yes, Ebay.

i got kind of a magnetic-fields-post-69-love-songs feel from 'katodivaihe' or however it's spelled, so it will be interesting to see if they shake it off on this last one.

That's a weird comparison to make

ha

<3 It's A Muthang

think in terms of magnitude and concept and it's not weird at all. since '69 love songs' merritt has just been making… records.

<3 corona

so damn heavy

i thought i had posted about this, but maybe it was on the metal thread.

'gravitoni' is great and i haven't been able to listen to it since cold weather and dark nights set in. i don't want to rip apart the fabric of reality and leave an empty hole behind if there's no hot air around to fill the void.

that's exactly when i start listening to pan sonic

and why

ok, puncturing the fabric as we speak, watch out

A much-needed brain colonic for this awful time of year. Thanks for the reminder...

gravitoni spring

I am also partial to the austere Vainio side projects Philus and (ought sign) whatever the ASCII code is for that

Ø

Kesto is basically "here's four different albums showing four different sides of our approach"