media 2xLP - Vinyl also available as CD: [pan-pot - pan-o-rama (CD)]
label mobilee/d
style tech / trance / rave
released 10/2007
item# B208763
catalog# MOBILEE 029
description mobilee 029/d
note: tracks and cover are taken from the corresponding CD. tracklisting and artwork of this release may differ slightly.
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A little less than two and a half years after its conception-and close to 30 singles, one compilation, one mix CD and one sublabel later-Berlin's mobilee releases its first artist album. Naturally, who better to represent the milestone than Pan-Pot, who so far have delivered five essential singles to mobilee, helping to anchor the ever-shifting sound of one of Europe's most exciting labels.
Pan-Pot is the duo of Tassilo Ippenberger and Thomas Benedix; in just two short years, with 10 singles (for mobilee and Einmaleins Musik) and remixes for the likes of Misc., Tim Xavier, Dapayk Solo, Sweet 'n Candy, Damián Schwartz, and Anja Schneider and Sebo K, they've become known far and wide for their distinctive, groovy, and above all ominous sound.
Pan-O-Rama finds the boys stretching that sound in every possible direction: twisting, tearing, and using the shreds to drag a wide swath of techno history into the future (and, just maybe, to drag a few pieces of techno future back into the past).
Call it minimal if you must, but this ain't no clickity-clack sh!t. (Even if Pan-Pot do excel at the clickityclack, rackity-racket, which infuses track after track on Pan-O-Rama with their signature convulsive shudder.)
You can hear the agonized gurgle of isolationist acid, reminiscent of Plastikman's darkest nights. You can hear the percolating urgency of classic bleep techno. Tried and true hardware collides with restless digital experimentation as dance music's DNA worms its way into twisted new shapes. Pan-O-Rama is dark, that's for damned sure. Eerie vocals that seem to come from within the listener's own head creep across the stereo field. (Don't let mystery collaborator Hugh Betcha's name fool you - judging from his paranoid muttering on "Charly," he won't be appearing in any romantic comedies any time soon.) Throughout, restrained minor-key melodies conjure 21st century noir, and a relentless low-end rumble seems to suck up all the light around it.
But Pan-Pot never lose their grip on the groove, again and again coming up with supple, subtly morphing beats capable of animating dance floors like animé. And even with a sense of dread lurking in the shadows behind every handclap, there's light at the end of the tunnel:
"Faces," featuring the deep house producer Vincenzo, sparkles with distant bell tones before opening up into a luscious, gently jacking overlaid with delicate piano chords. A new direction for the group, its tentative melody suggests that Pan-Pot has a sensitive side after all.
Perhaps unsurprisingly for a duo named after the knob that controls sound's left/right balance, Pan-Pot are obsessed with space, distance and depth, using all the tools in their arsenal to map out dimensions that go far beyond the confines of the dance floor. This is body music, head music, dark night of the soul music. And when daybreak comes breathing into view, the music's ready and waiting for that as well.
quality stuff, like always from mobile
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with an exception of Anja's latest release, i think the
last few Mobilees were not up to high standards.
this however seems to be bringing the label back on track.
awesome stuff
last few Mobilees were not up to high standards.
this however seems to be bringing the label back on track.
awesome stuff
i can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
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My thoughts exactly - I have not been really impressed since some of the Back To Back Remixes.nowayback wrote:with an exception of Anja's latest release, i think the
last few Mobilees were not up to high standards.
this however seems to be bringing the label back on track.
awesome stuff
By the way, anyone know where to get a copy of this in the states on vinyl?