Pan Sonic Kesto

Great review, Ken.

I hope this thing doesn't cost a BUZZillion dollars.

has it laeked yet?

speaking of 4cd albums, when is an electronic artist going to do something along the lines of "zaireeka"?

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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...

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.

yikes, just looked this up on amazon and the cheapest used one is going for a mere $177.

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

"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...

one just sold for 57 bucks on ebay. hmmmm....

if that was the only conceivable way to obtain it then $177 would be worth paying

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.

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

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?

*A* was the album i really liked. from 1999.

one of those groups that definitely brings back lsd sense memories for me. pan sonic, so good i can taste them!

recently pulled out the Charlemagne Palestine collabo ...

one just sold for 57 bucks on ebay. hmmmm....

― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:44 (7 hours ago)

LOL this was mine, I burned it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

just listening to it now, excellent.

it is!

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?

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

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"