Bill Kouligas and PAN records (Rashad Becker, Lee Gamble, Eli Keszler etc)

A long overdue thread on PAN releases and related things. 40+ releases old and counting. Lots of interesting electronic music that really kicks hard against any genre boundaries, all packaged in amazing sleeves that I find almost unbearably desirable (just wish I could afford more of them). Last one I heard was the Rashad Becker album which was the best one yet I think. How have you been finding things?

A little bit of the Becker record to get you in the mood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dfgkbey6F0

that nhk whatever dance classics album is the only pan I really listen to all the way thru happily

Yeah, that one is good. Kind of related to the last Lee Gamble one which again was making new music out of old techno sounds but coming at it from quite a different angle.

XLR8R podcast this week of this stuff. Totally unfamiliar with it but sounding good.

Diversions 1994-1996 is maybe my favourite album of recent times but I don't have the energy or sufficient close knowledge of the last couple of years to write something in favour of it that sufficiently distinguishes it from any number of other people working in similar areas

The Joseph Hammer and Heatsick releases on PAN are my favourites. Never did check out the Eli Keszler record after seeing him be amazing live. Quite like the Helm stuff too.

Oooh, will check out that XLR8R poddy.

the HELM record is awesome too

whole label is sick

Rashad's album rules too

these folks are on a roll fo sho

I finally got around to the Concrete Fence 12" (Rusell Haswell & Regis). "Industrial Disease" is just glorious.

Big Russell Haswell <3

loves his noise does russell

Helm's Silencer ep is great, too.

Rene Hell's album is awesome

Love the Rashad Becker album - totally trippy and strangely emotional for such ascetic music.

Saw Luke Younger aka Helm at the weekend in a trio w/ Neil Campbell and Richard Youngs. The latter two kind of dominated the sound - Campbell was doing his ASC fucked-up dance music thing and Youngs was doing his usual style of singing which sat surprisingly well with the music, like a beautiful fucking dolphin leaping through messy waves of rave.

Was oogling the Marginal Consort record too but it was forty quid or something, so it's cheap shitty mp3s from emusic for me on that.

Wait no, forget what I said, I was obviously insane through lack of sleep. This is going to confuse me forever: I saw Luke Fowler, not Luke Younger. It doesn't help that they look vaguely similar and that they've both collaborated with Steve Heatsick. Jeepers, fuck it I'm sorry - yesterday I knew all this, today I have totally scrambled brains.

yo https://soundcloud.com/pan_recs/clear-chanel

I love the r/s (peter rehberg & marcus schmickler) usa lp. it's pretty harsh and def not for everyone but the material is nice and detailed and the recording is super crisp and really captures it all well.

Diversions 1994-1996 is maybe my favourite album of recent times but I don't have the energy or sufficient close knowledge of the last couple of years to write something in favour of it that sufficiently distinguishes it from any number of other people working in similar areas

^^ tho i wouldn't go so far as calling it "my fav album of recent times", i really love that record and feel kinda the same way you do abot it - prob comes from the fact that gamble and i have a similar appreciation for jungle, more based on the overall atmosphere of it than the rhythm qua rhythm or dybamics of the genre.

really great label. kudos for the helm and heatsick records aswell. still, figuring out the rashad becker one - tho i like it, i feel that i have to spend some more time with it to really click.

haven't heard a ton of the stuff on this label but the Helena Hauff project Black Sites that they just put out is really good

and yeah Lee Gamble "Diversions" is solid

I'm with you guys on Diversions, it's so endlessly listenable and manages to sound otherworldy and somehow 'obvious' at the same time.

rashad becker lp def features the most amazingly engineered fart noises I've ever heard

New Heatsick album is up for stream - http://pitchfork.com/advance/293-re-engineering/

rashad becker lp def features the most amazingly engineered fart noises I've ever heard

i love the way that the individual sounds are quite so characterful (and yes, comical), in my head i've been envisaging sections of it as some sort of dadaist ballet score

I like the heatsick album. It's sort of cozy and friendly.

I wouldn't buy as many of these albums if the packaging wasn't as nice as it is

Wish there was a thread for that Rashad Becker album. Listened to Dances III the other day and it's such a strange, emotional experience. Truly it succeeds in what it's trying to do.

the lee gamble ep from this year is very good

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and there is a new album by lee gamble too

that will be an album that people will want to download

album better than the ep

the album is good, ive been playing it all weekend
i prefer those ghostly drone tracks than the more fragmented percussive ones

Got to say I'm a bit underwhelmed by the Gamble album, but I wasn't that impressed by Diversions at first and that really grew on me so I'll persevere

they should released rashad becker on cd, i will buy it

koch 2xlp sounds amazing. i think the rashad becker album is next for me. can anyone recommend valerio tricoli ‎– miseri lares? i see he's done things with werner dafeldecker. and dean roberts. i miss dean roberts.

new helm album, olympic mess, is fantastic i think, he really seems to have kicked on here. was actually kind of expecting yr standard issue urban dystopianism, and while this does have its share of clanking forboding, there also some quite lovely bits of shimmering light and almost serenity in there too. really varied but obviously interconnected sound environments, a good sense of moving through a zone of architectural churn and social flux

This label's big ones for me so far this year are the Spectre mixtape reissue and the Lifted collaborative project (and this interview feature re: the latter's one of my fave music long-reads of the year so far): http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/international-improvisation-the-making-of-lifteds-ambient-fusion-album/

oh thanks, that looks like a useful link. haven't spent too much time with lifted yet, still playing the gaussian curve cd the whole time instead

haven't peeped that Helm record yet, but i liked the Afrikan Sciences double-LP from this winter quite a bit. still growing on me, actually.

PAN is indeed on a roll this year, personal highlights are Olympic mess, Oren Ambarchi's Live Knots and the Spectre Reiisue. Upcoming M.E.S.H. album is great as well, from which Bill sent our radio show a track in advance the night before our last show before summer break/midyear round-up (https://www.mixcloud.com/Sterrenplaten/sterrenplaten-26-juni-2015-mid-year-roundup-2015/). Which interfered obv but was way too cool to left out.

really looking forward to the M.E.S.H. record.

https://soundcloud.com/leegamble/lee-gamble-nts-radio-show-jun15

maybe he does this all the time and they're all this good? idk. this rules though.

aaaand it's really interesting & good, although possibly better in small doses:
http://www.self-titledmag.com/2015/07/16/stream-m-e-s-h-s-debut-album-and-read-the-stories-behind-his-dystopian-songs/

haven't peeped that Helm record yet, but i liked the Afrikan Sciences double-LP from this winter quite a bit. still growing on me, actually.

― dronestreet, Thursday, July 9, 2015 8:05 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, co-sign

I still listen to the Becker album on a regular basis. Hope he follows it up soon.

I think the PVC stickiness made my (admittedly used) copy of Concrete Fence unplayable... I don't know what the move is going forward. Like, if you put the record in a little sleeve, it totally ruins the intended visual effect...

Looks like they stopped doing the PVC joints about 8 years ago. I feel like a fucking idiot for copping all these

voted for both Rashad Becker and Lee Gamble in the 2010s albums poll, but not expecting either of them to place

Goin through 'em, I bought *9* of the 12"+PVC sleeve joints and only 5 are playable. Sucks!