Pan Sonic Kesto

http://m.culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/festivals/sonar-festival/mika-vainio-au-sonar-221889

http://www.blastfirstpetite.com/pansonic-atomin.html

the final pan sonic release, a soundtrack

unless a label has been holding on to another archived live release

^ this is good, they are always good, we were never good enough for them

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

RIP Mika Vainio:

http://www.rumba.fi/uutiset/suomalaisen-elektronisen-musiikin-pioneeri-mika-vainio-kuollut/

This is terrible news, I saw him play only a few weeks ago.

Oh no. Fuck.

Damm, RIP. Last saw him performing a couple of years ago as part of a trio and he made the nastiest noises with the least effort - very cool dude.

I saw Pan sonic (they may not even have changed the name yet) in 2000 or 2001, opening for Wire in New York. Two anonymous-looking dudes sitting behind a table loaded with what looked like homemade electronic junk, making these unearthly, building-rattling sounds. It was really amazing, and kind of opened my eyes in some ways as to what live music could be (I was still very much in a rock band/jazz group mindset in terms of what a show "should be").

Yeah, building-rattling is exactly right - saw Panasonic supporting Suicide in a pretty small London venue and distinctly remember going to the gents toilets during their set and finding all the cubicle doors vibrating quite violently on their hinges.

oh no! RIP :(

sad news

not the revive I was expecting tbh. :(

RIP and damn, only 53

:(

what! no no no no no - RIP :(

Yeah 53 is no age

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!