Pan Sonic

   
Artist: Pan Sonic

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   Techno
   Electronic
   Blues
   Industrial
   

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Discography:


   
 Kesto (234.48:4) (CD4)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 1


   
 Kesto (234.48:4) (CD3)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Kesto (234.48:4) (CD2)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


   
 Kesto (234.48:4) (CD1)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


   
 Kesto

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 33


   
 Pan Sonic Live At Norbergfestivalen, Sweden 2003 - Radio [Mantraitor]

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 1


   
 Aaltopiiri

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 17


   
 Mort Aux Vaches

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 1


   
 X

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 B

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 4


   
 A

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 17


   
 Arctic Rangers

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 4


   
 Osasto EP

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 4


   
 Vakio

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 15


   
 Osasto CDEP

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 4


   
 Panasonic (EP) [Sahka007]

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 2


   
 Charlemange Palestine - Mort Aux Vaches

   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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Finnish minimalist techno group Pan sonic are among the most active and well-known artists from that country's midget experimental techno resistance, and the offset to reach clap at an international level. Pursuing the scraggy edges of minimal techno and hard-core, the grouping have earned an abiding association with industrial and disturbance medicine through their incorporation of antiseptic production techniques and power tool electronics, landing them in 1995 on the English Mute label's experimental subsidiary company Blast First! (most of their catalog to date has since appeared there). The affinity lay more at the surface, however, as Pan sonic are better understood as a hit 'tween Jeff Mills and Mike Ink; dance-based electronic music with a maximum of impact, realised through a minimum of foreign item. Known for junking together studio apartment equipment from spare parts and ancient analogue rubble, Pan sonic's search for the untested in techno is their compositional M.O., placing them closer to the music's Detroit roots than is much understood.


Formed in Turku in the early '90s, Pan sonic began as the duet of Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen. As with most Finnish techno groups, Pan sonic's earlier beginnings lay with the Sahko/Puu imprint, the focus of the Northern European techno scenery and home to such artists as Kirlian, Philus, Ø (Vainio's solo guise), Mono Junk, and Jimi Tenor. Pan sonic released its self-titled debut single through Sahko in 1994 earlier organism joined by third member Sami Salo and landing a narrow with Blast First! the following class. The group's first BF! acquittance, Vakio, was a full-length CD/triple-10" boxed typeset featuring the same brand of furtive, passively aggressive techno, though with a fuller, more thought-out well-grounded. Soon afterwards Vakio's release in 1995, Salo left the group (ostensibly to join the Army), and Pan sonic's subsequent releases -- the Osasto EP and the group's 1997 sophomore long-player, Kulma -- noted his absence by their relatively harder, less subtle tone.


Pan transonic added live carrying out to their regular repertoire in 1996, playing a number of gigs throughout Europe and Japan, as well as touring with gothic rock group the Swans. Vainio stirred to London in 1997, where, in improver to his chronic commitment to Pan sonic, he continues to record as Ø (his third base full-length under that name, Olento, was issued on Sahko precisely prior to Kulma's release). He has besides released work on Sahko, Puu, and Cheap as Tekonivel, Orchestra Guacamole (with Jaakko Salovaara), and Kosmos (with Jimi Tenor), as good as remixed tracks for Björk and Tactile. Pan sonic have besides been featured on several compiling albums, including A Fault in the Nothing (Contact, 1996) and Funktion 1: Finnish Techno Collection (Function, 1996). By 1998, an inevitable confrontation with the Japanese fabrication giant besides known as Pan sonic had resulted in a name-change of sorts, to Pan sonic. The wanting letter re-surfaced the following twelvemonth, as the title of the duo's third album. Vainio and Väisänen besides recorded the Endless LP (as VVV) with the addition of Suicide vocaliser Alan Vega. In 2001, Pan sonic returned with Aaltopiiri, toured the world, and then returned with a four-disc record album, Kesto (234.48:4), in 2004.