Date: 15/10/2013
01 Mark Leckey & Florian Hecker - Chimera - PAN
02 Dalglish - Ciaradh - PAN
03 Eli Keszler - Parking Generation II - PAN
04 Afrikan Sciences - Son Shine 1 - PAN
05 Rashad Becker - Dances IV - PAN
06 Lee Gamble - Untitled / Rene Hell - This Is Chess - PAN
07 Concrete Fence "Caulk - PAN
08 Beneath - Stress 1 WIP - PAN
09 NHK'Koyxen - 675 - PAN
10 M.E.S.H. - Ojai2 - PAN
11 Jar Moff - Financial Glam - PAN
12 Ben Vida - Damaged Particulates IV - PAN
13 Rene Hell - Var_len - PAN
14 Mat Dryhurst - DISPATCH - PAN
15 Helm - Mirrored Palms - PAN
16 James Hoff - Blaster - PAN
17 Black Sites - Prototype - PAN
18 Lee Gamble - Untitled
19 Valerio Tricoli - Miseri Lares - PAN
20 Marginal Consort - Instal (Live) - PAN
21 Heatsick - Mimosa - PAN
Although many labels have had an impact on the sound of 2013, there aren't many imprints that have been more influential than PAN. Though the Berlin-based label has been releasing music since 2008, within the past year or two, its dark and unique blend of techno, industrial, noise, and various experimental sounds has solidified into a sort of template, albeit one that's still incredibly difficult to define in any sort of concrete fashion. As with many of the best labels, it's hard to describe exactly what a PAN record sounds like, but there's undoubtedly a connective thread that holds all of its releases together. In hopes of examining that thread a little more closely, we've enlisted label founder Bill Kouligas to put together an exclusive mix consisting of nothing but PAN material, and have elected to debut it as part of our Labels We Love coverage.
Surveying the entire PAN catalog in the context of a single podcast would effectively be an impossible task, but Kouligas has nonetheless put together an accurate portrait of the label's many sonic facets. Though the mix alternates between segments of dark, dubby grooves and raw, static-laden noise, it's still a coherent statement, and one that demonstrates how established notions of genre are continually melting away within the current electronic landscape. Without question, there plenty of difficult and challenging moments, but the sounds—and, perhaps more importantly, the ways in which those sounds have been juxtaposed—are so compelling that both experimental diehards and dancefloor denizens will find something to latch on to. Furthermore, Kouligas has slipped in a handful of unreleased tunes, which seem to indicate that PAN's current hot streak isn't likely to slow down anytime soon.
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