PAN return to the vinyl format in style with a pair of remixes from Helm’s 2015 LP Olympic Mess.
The Australian musician spends an afternoon in Dublin discussing his wealth of musical projects and collaborations with Ian Maleney.
Visionist’s newly relaunched PAN offshoot to release music from the hotly tipped London producer.
The New York based conceptual artist discusses his various stylistic practices, his role in non-profit organisation Primary Information, the future impact of new streaming platforms and more with Ian Maleney.
A split 12″ from the pair will arrive as the first release on the newly formed PAN sub-label later this month.
The Berlin-based artist will release his debut album in late July.
Is 2015 PAN’s marmite year? First the reissue of a rare trip hop/illbient tape, now a contemporary acid jazz record. The label has a gift for disobeying rules and expectations, and for celebrating the avant-garde in distinctive ways, but illbient and acid jazz are much maligned genres. Both were more or less abandoned to their specific moments in time. Lifted has grown out of a productive conversation with Max D and Co La, but this album also feels a modern take on the idea of an ensemble. The two spearheading a campaign of collaboration and improvisatory meshing that often found a musician recording their part individually and forwarding it to be mixed in or written around. Performers credited include Jordan GCZ of Juju and Jordash, Dawit Eklund from burgeoning Washington DC label 1432 R, Jeremy Hyman of the band Ponytails, Motion Graphics (I don’t know), and the current apple of everybody’s eye, Gigi Masin.
Olympic Mess will arrive in June and is “born of destructive practice, competing desires, and troubled optimism”.
The collective talents of Max D, Jordan GCZ, Gigi Masin, Co La and more feature on the newly released 1.
Hip hop mixtapes, experimental industrial cassettes from the UK and Italy, cult Leipzig electro and some classic Warp Records all feature in March’s best reissues.
The wonderfully titled Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera will arrive next month.
The ultra limited mixtape from the WordSound founder will be released in double LP vinyl format next month.
Eric Douglas Porter has been on an increasingly prolific tip of late, gaining exposure for his craft while managing to be totally singular and independent of any particular movement or scene. He is of course affiliated to Aybee and the Deepblak stable, forming one of the central tenets of the Oakland label, but he moves in his own orbit much like the way Ras G holds his own space despite being an central figure in the Brainfeeder story. Even when he and Aybee collaborated for the sublime Sketches In Space LP earlier in 2014, Porter’s voice shone through true and tangible, arguably sending his collaborator’s reasonably loose sound out into the even braver frontiers in which Afrikan Sciences resides.
Our review of 2014 continues, as Tony Poland, Scott Wilson and James Manning run down our 15 best record labels of the year.
The Bronx-based producer will release his third solo album on Bill Kouligas’ label next month.
Records from Beau Wanzer, Shit & Shine, Dez Williams, Bing & Ruth, Line Idle and more caught the eye for their own particular reasons.
Though his tracks as Objekt probably make most producers green with envy, writing music doesn’t come easy for TJ Hertz. He has spoken in the past about his tortuous production process, and each track he makes being comprised of “scar tissue” left by up to 80 iterations of the same track. His first record was something of an accidental hit, comprised of two dubstep pastiches borne out of being stuck in a techno rut. For better or worse, these frustrations and accidents are an intrinsic part of what makes Hertz’s music what it is; he’s very much the antithesis to stern techno functionalism, an obsessive producer who consistently creates the kind of intelligently jaw-dropping moments that are all too rare in the genre.
The PAN artist discusses five records relating to his recent Scythians EP, with hardstyle, industrial and IDM among the styles covered.