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E-Saggila / Exploited Body — Split
Format: 12"
Cat.No: PAN 125
Release Date: 25 November 2021
Purchase: https://p-a-n.bandcamp.com/merch/e-saggila-exploited-body-split

Fourth installment of PAN's split 12'' series, featuring Toronto-based producer E-Saggila (Northern Electronics, Hospital Productions) and Helsinki's experimentalist and Changeless label founder Exploited Body.

Limited to 300 copies, hand stamped, no repress.

The EP is mastered by Beau Thomas

A1 E-Saggila - Cluebeat (PAN 125)

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Production by @yakayaka
Mastering by @cellvl

Yaka - Growing Without Moving

jjjacob's genre-melted ballistics draw from hardcore, trance and deconstructed club.

'bi̶e̶n̶v̶e̶n̶u̶e̶ ̶a̶u̶ ̶c̶l̶u̶b̶ Au revoir à la discothèque' is out July 6th on Bienvenue au club.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3ab99np

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Premiere: jjjacob - Bumping [Bienvenue au club]

Sensory overload on the latest @c-a-n-v-a-s release, courtesy of Berlin-based composer, producer and sound-designer @xao-3.

‘Wirehead’ is a maximalist assault for the internet era; a fine-tuned volley seeking to reflect the glut of information competing for our attention. It’s dopamine hacking through auditory stimuli, soundtracking a gradual decline into disorder through turbulent experimentation.

From hopeful delusion to palpable despondency, our premiere leaves any trace of optimism mired in bleak, club-focussed abstraction.

Pre-order: canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/wirehead

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Premiere: Xao - Aqua Tofana [C.A.N.V.A.S.]

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Taken from SBKT055: TRANCE BAND - Entrancing
Release date: 3rd March 2023

'There's a Ghost in the Lantern
Accordion – Dis Fig
Guzheng – KIM KHAN

In a global landscape that increasingly prioritizes individuality over collaborative expression, TRANCE is a distinctive project. Initiated by Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen, best known for his work with Asian Dope Boys, TRANCE is as artistically amorphous as its constantly evolving line-up, that fluctuates as it shimmers across borders and time-zones. In 2019, the project was demoed in Beijing as part of a solo exhibition from Chen, a 12-hour durational performance that examined the altered states of living and dying and pondered the sounds, sensations, bodies and spaces that notion might suggest. On hold for three years due to COVID-19 restrictions, TRANCE was eventually premiered in Hamburg at the Kampnagel Theatre last year where it was presented as a surreal three-day ceremony. This time around the Trance Band was made up of Berlin-based noisemaker and vocalist Dis Fig, Indonesia's Gabber Modus Operandi, musician and MC KIM KHAN, guitarist and engineer Felix-Florian Tödtloff, and Vancouver-based percussionist and producer CITY. Chen directed the show, channeling each artist's unique energy into an alliance that highlighted their independent skills while pushing towards ideas that simply couldn't have been realized discretely.


"Entrancing" is a live documentation of that incendiary Hamburg session, powered by the performative fireworks that came from having the project halted for two years before it was allowed to burst into life once more. Just as with previous iterations of TRANCE, the space was terraformed into an alien landscape that allowed the collective to enact a carnivalesque display that was tightly controlled but creatively boundless. Musical u-turns were accompanied by monumental stage overhauls that reshaped a muddy, fog-filled outdoor riverscape into an arena, or a sweaty nightclub. This theatrical impact can't be visualized as clearly on the record, but musical cues do just enough heavy lifting to provide a tantalizing contour. When the alluring electro-acoustic plucks and resonant sustained string tones of 'There's a Ghost in the Lantern' cascade into cinematic drone metal on 'Ylva's Theme', it's impossible not to be drawn into the TRANCE narrative. Sonic stage lights flicker with uncommon intensity as the nebulous group rewrite their collective personal stories into stirring, synergistic poetry.


"Something changes!" KIM KHAN calls out on 'Soft and Black', cutting through warbling synths and itchy beatbox percussion. The track builds quickly, reaching a sizzling crescendo of buzzsaw noise and acidic electronics. It's a stylistic sea change that channels the group's kinetic energy into a rock show, and CITY picks up the message on 'Trance Genesis', adding rapid-fire drums to a barrage of guitar skronk. 'Shaolin Affliction' glues Trance Band's jagged artistic edges to a vintage metal template, gradually dissolving into throaty post-hardcore, while 'My Fortress' brings the show to a powerful conclusion with Dis Fig assuming the role of grunge balladeer, bellowing into the void over cacophonous live instrumentation. Unbound by musical and artistic conventions, TRANCE peers out from the basement, the gallery and the playhouse to forge an expression that's all of this and something new entirely. It's refreshing, witty, exhilarating and most of all, completely unpredictable.

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TRANCE BAND - There’s a Ghost in the Lantern

"Dribbling” is Tadleeh’s second Ep, which is now released on NKISI’s label INITIATION.
It’s a four tracks record that involves abstract concepts as well as material fields. The journey begins into a no-where-place in the Universe. Where far drum machine signals meet the sound of a classic guitar. Despite the sweetness of certain points of life, we have to move through different hurdles to generate new spirits. We have to pone our radicalisms into a new point of view. This record runs across sad synths and suffered chants touching familiar tribalism and techno dub beats, converting the initial fear into a club response.

Tracks written and composed by Hazina 
Mix by Hazina
Master by Amir Shoat
Artwork by Hazina
Additional Digital art by Hazina 
Lettering by NKISI
Releasing date: 16th March 2023 
Format: Digital

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Erwan Sene - Tilt
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 131S
Release Date: 17 March 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Tilt

Erwan Sene shares 'Tilt', the first single from the upcoming full-length album 'JUnQ' out via PAN on April 14th.

JUnQ, or the Journal of Unsolved Questions, is modeled on a parallel exercise: to sketch music and to score sculptures. Part exhibition, part book and part album release, JUnQ seeks to propose a collaborative language that binds the algorithmic needs of an artificial pop star to the performance of the artist himself. Boundaries between reality and artifice are blurred in a continuous chain of confrontation and sublimation, wherein a romance between analog evolution and digital experimentation is born.

Mixed by James Ginzburg
Mastered by Rashad Becker

Erwan Sene - Tilt (PAN 131S)

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