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.
― mh, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― National Sockpuppet Helpline (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― EDB, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 01:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― anita bonghit (rionat), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― get a goal (rionat), Friday, 26 February 2010 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― straightola, Friday, 26 February 2010 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Final album next month, Gravitoni.
http://blastfirstpetite.com/pansonic-gravitoni.html
― StanM, Thursday, 8 April 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
11 pan finale
fuck
there'll be plenty from mika and probably ilpo vaisanen separately i'd guess
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 8 April 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
mika vainio playing live in london next weekend
― phat vintage shit (r1o natsume), Thursday, 8 April 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Did anyone see anything confirming this Gravitoni album that's supposed to be out next month, other than that one page on blastfirstpetite.com?
― StanM, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blastfirstpetite.com/ now says: OUT NOW!
er... where the f can I order it then?
― StanM, Saturday, 1 May 2010 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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).
― StanM, Saturday, 1 May 2010 09:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 1 May 2010 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― zoom, Monday, 3 May 2010 10:37 (fourteen years ago) link
the last track off his 'vandals' ep from last year was a sort of 4/4 electro thing
― nakhchivan, Monday, 3 May 2010 11:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Voltos Bolt is on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/blastfirstp
― StanM, Thursday, 13 May 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Woohoo! Gravitoni was in my mail box today! (ordered it from blastfirstpetite.com only last week)Just skipped through it and I'd say the first half is quite noisy, the second half starts out quieter and gets harder progressively. But don't take my word for it, buy it yourself. :-)
― StanM, Monday, 17 May 2010 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
It's already my favourite album of theirs, I think.
― StanM, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 12:18 (fourteen years ago) link
First post-Pan Sonic solo release: a Mika Vainio single on an Austrian label
http://derstandard.at/1271377655319/Austro-Finnische-Freundschafthttp://www.discogs.com/Mika-Vainio-Its-A-Muthang/release/2297633
― StanM, Friday, 4 June 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Studio collaboration with Haino Keiji, recorded in 2007
http://www.blastfirstpetite.com/pansonic-haino-studio.html
― StanM, Monday, 7 June 2010 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
(that one appears to have leaked, btw)
― StanM, Monday, 7 June 2010 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
love the concrete ish penultimate track on gravitoni
― nakhchivan, Monday, 9 August 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Mika Vainio is kind of a hero of mine
― MIA Deren Brown Sugar Ray Leonard Cohen Afterworld (admrl), Thursday, 23 September 2010 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/264792/Mika+Vainio.jpg
Way better picture than "two guys in duffle coats standing in front of a modernist building". Badass tats!
― MIA Deren Brown Sugar Ray Leonard Cohen Afterworld (admrl), Thursday, 23 September 2010 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Gravitoni is a terrorizing album. Best of 2010 so far. Still feel ill at times listening to it. Katodivaihe sounds much more fun in comparison, but not as good.
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Thursday, 23 September 2010 07:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah gravitoni is great, probably my favourite so far this year
― E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 September 2010 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link
giving this a spin sight unseen
opening track is some groovy sociopathy
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 23 September 2010 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
which one? kesto is probably the best album of the last decade
― E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
gravitoni
am liking this a lot, although the otherwise wonderful track 3 could stand to go on for 20 more minutes - I gather they've done their fair share of ultraextended composition so I guess to scratch that itch it's a question of trawling the archives (all of Kesto is on Spotify...)
holy mother of god, track 4 kicked in and now I realise why track 3 had to end
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
― MIA Deren Brown Sugar Ray Leonard Cohen Afterworld (admrl), Thursday, September 23, 2010 5:10 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
he's incredibly stylish right? gotta admire the beauty of that combination. i like to think he wears that outfit every single day and owns a walk in wardrobe full of plain black tees, black levis, and doc marten shoes. extremely cool
― lao gan ma (r1o natsume), Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
what happens when it is very cold :(
this album seems to be getting fiercer with each subsequent track - it's accelerating into an exothermic vortex at almost exactly the right pace, and makes me to lament why I sleep on this kinda thing for so long - also it makes me cherish Spotify, for all its horror
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.fullcaffeine.com/foto/pansonic_02.jpg
yall h8ing on ilpo
― E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
speaking of ilpo, the hertsi record that got reissued on sahko this year is nuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di4cwV5ZR4c
― lao gan ma (r1o natsume), Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
gonna just throw a bone into the void in case any of you space-cadets are manning the spyglass
Has anyone heard "I, Thighpaulsandra" yet?
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway gravitoni was eerie and dope
now commencing kesto which will be listened to over the snooker
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Pakoisvoima = :D
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
HALFWAY THERE YOU GUYS
this is soooo good
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
kesto is pretty amazing. especially love the first two discs and the way they play with tweaking the degrees of harshness for similar structures. feel like I haven't managed to crack the third one with the long silences yet but I rarely put it on. and the last is a nice comedown.
still listen to this on the regular.
― original bgm, Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
how much can i get for this set?
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 23 September 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I got a bit over $50.
― sleeve, Thursday, 23 September 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
on ebay?
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 23 September 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Me too. Yes, Ebay.
― MIA Deren Brown Sugar Ray Leonard Cohen Afterworld (admrl), Thursday, 23 September 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i got kind of a magnetic-fields-post-69-love-songs feel from 'katodivaihe' or however it's spelled, so it will be interesting to see if they shake it off on this last one.
― j., Friday, 24 September 2010 06:29 (thirteen years ago) link
That's a weird comparison to make
― MIA Deren Brown Sugar Ray Leonard Cohen Afterworld (admrl), Friday, 24 September 2010 06:49 (thirteen years ago) link
ha
― E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Friday, 24 September 2010 10:23 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 It's A Muthang
― StanM, Sunday, 26 September 2010 09:43 (thirteen years ago) link
think in terms of magnitude and concept and it's not weird at all. since '69 love songs' merritt has just been making… records.
― j., Monday, 27 September 2010 06:19 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 corona
― Princess TuomTuom (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 December 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
so damn heavy
― Princess TuomTuom (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 December 2010 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought i had posted about this, but maybe it was on the metal thread.
'gravitoni' is great and i haven't been able to listen to it since cold weather and dark nights set in. i don't want to rip apart the fabric of reality and leave an empty hole behind if there's no hot air around to fill the void.
― j., Monday, 6 December 2010 06:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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.credits
released November 9, 2018
― j., Thursday, 22 November 2018 07:34 (five years ago) link
just listening to it now, excellent.
― calzino, Thursday, 22 November 2018 09:32 (five years ago) link
it is!
― StanM, Friday, 23 November 2018 11:23 (five years ago) link
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?
― J. Sam, Friday, 5 November 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
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
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
I am also partial to the austere Vainio side projects Philus and (ought sign) whatever the ASCII code is for that
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
Ø
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
Kesto is basically "here's four different albums showing four different sides of our approach"