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R.I.P. Mika Vainio, 1963-2017I’m deeply saddened to learn that Mika Vainio of Pan Sonic has died at the age of 53. This opening track from Pan Sonic’s second album Kulma was my first impression of...
Muslimgauze: “Druse (Panasonic Mix)” (Occupied Territories, Staalplaat 1996)It’s easy to overlook this engaging collection of remixes considering Muslimgauze’s massively prolific output during and...
I-LP-O in Dub: Communist Dub (Editions Mego)Ilpo Väisänen has been a fixture in experimental minimal electronic music for decades now, best known as one-half of Finnish duo Pan Sonic. His...
Pan Sonic: Oksastus (Kvitnu 2014)Ilpo Väisänen and Mika Vainio’s last hurrah as Pan Sonic is actually a live recording from back in 2009, and I’d missed it when Ukrainian label Kvitnu released it...
Merzbow & Pan Sonic: “68'18”“ (V, Les Disques Victo 2003) I sometimes forget about this fantastic collaboration between Masami Akita and electronic music’s favorite...
Merzbow & Pan Sonic: “68'18”“ (V, Les Disques Victo 2003) I sometimes forget about this fantastic collaboration between Masami Akita and electronic music’s favorite...
Mika Vainio: Kilo (Blast First Petite) When I first heard Mika Vainio’s first solo album Onko in 1997, Pan Sonic was new to me (and still known as Panasonic before the company of the...
Various Artists: An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music: Seventh and Last Chronology, 1930-2012 (Sub Rosa) The seventh and final installment in Sub Rosa’s massive series....
Mike Ink: Rosenkranz (Sähkö) Really cool, weird minimal stuff from Wolfgang Voigt’s alter ego Mike Ink. Originally released in 1994 on the Finnish minimal techno label Sähkö, these...
Mika Vainio: Life (…It Eats You Up) (Editions Mego) One half of Pan Sonic, Mika Vainio has made a robust career out of exploiting combinations of signal, rhythm, noise and silence. His...
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