it sort of depends on your tastes. Panasonic gets progressively less
accessible in my opinion, but also progressively better. the "vakio" album
is more conventional in that it has a lot of straight forward 4-4 beats and
things, a little more techno-influenced (influenced, not sounding
necessarily) than the newer stuff. "Kulma" is sort of a cross between noisy
beats and more sparse sounds. "A" is really really atmospheric and probably
the most out there of them all, whereas "Aaltopiiri" (the new one) is really
great, because it combines a little of all of them, from really ambient,
sterile sounds to crazy noisy beat-oriented tracks. Also, if you can locate
it, the "Osasto" EP, which I believe is out of print, is really really nice,
very heavy, pounding abrasive percussion for most of it. They never really
use melody much at all. "Aaltopiiri" has some interesting musical timbre
that almost begins to have a melodic quality but never quite gets there
entirely. Judging by your "np - Imminent Starvation," you like some of the
current industrial stuff and you would probably really like the noisier
stuff by Panasonic (Osasto, Aaltopiiri)
Their solo stuff (Mika Vainio and Ilpo Vainesen) is more sparse and really
abstract, not as ultimately rewarding in my opinion but still interesting in
an "outer limits" sort of context.
Vladislav Delay... "Multila," easily. The best. Very dense atmospherics that
gradually evolve into percussive tracks.... it's really beautiful. His other
stuff (with the exception of Luomo in my opinion) won't disappoint but
"Multila" is the best of them all, on the Chain Reaction label.
quoted 20 lines From: "Andrew Kohnen" <andylists@hotmail.com>
>From: "Andrew Kohnen" <andylists@hotmail.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: [idm] music recs
>Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:24:05
>
>What is the best Pan[a]Sonic album for a beginner and why?
>Same question for Vladislav delay.
>
>
>Thanks
>Ebola
>np: Imminent Starvation
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