Here's my latest live set for free DL. Enjoy!

Tracklist:
Ships on Fire (Silenced)
Echolalia (Silenced)
Tokyo (Tigerbeat6)
The Glass Mountain (Maripoza)
Temple of a Thousand Lights (Tigerbeat6)
Akasha (Tigerbeat6)
Distant Places (Tigerbeat6)
Days are Numbered (Tigerbeat6)

Live Set FREE DOWNLOAD

Free DL via Bandcamp

dream theory

the glass mountain

Knopje is a Nijmegen based independent record label focusing on electronic music.
The label has grown considerably since its inception and continues to gain a reputation for unpredictable releases. Knopje has slowly built up a roster it can not only be proud of, but also one genuinely envied by many of its contemporaries.
Artists of the label are Ricardo Tobar, Idiot Idols, Avus, Angelo Battilani, Magic Panda, Van Did, Roi Koch.
Knopje 003 Release date May 12, 2014
Magic Panda - Life is Elsewhere EP
Life is Elsewhere EP is the latest release from Magic Panda aka Jamie Robson, 32 year old producer from Norwich UK and his first release with Dutch indie imprint, Knopje - home to releases by Ricardo Tobar and The Idiot Idols.
 Robson arrived on the electronic music scene in 2011 with his debut EP, The Glass Mountain on Maripoza Records, and in this short time has attracted support from and been playlisted by the likes of Laurent Garnier, Hernan Cattaneo and Max Cooper (whose remix of Magic Panda’s Distant Places skyrocketed to the top of the Beatport electronica charts). In addition to a handful of EPs and remixes, he has developed a club orientated live set and played alongside Luke Abbott, Ricardo Tobar, Mount Kimbie, Portico Quartet and DMX Krew both in the UK and across Europe. His debut album, Temple Of A Thousand Lights was released in June 2013 on Kid606's Tigerbeat6.

This 3 track release sees Magic Panda further evolving his sound and style and in many respects picking up where Temple left off.  
The EP opens with the title track, Life is Elsewhere. Rife with the trademark Magic Panda signatures of melancholic arpeggios, scattergun percussion and intense melodies, Life is Elsewhere is an emotive reflection on existence. 

This is followed up with the more wistful, happy/sad trip of The Floating World.  The Japanese term for 'the floating world' is 'Ukiyo' which refers to the buddhist concept that nothing in life is permanent and that life is made up of fleeting and transient moments of beauty. These themes are explored through the tracks pensive melodies and euphoric choruses.

The EP finishes with the wild and propulsive Maunsell Sea Forts, a track that took inspiration from the haunting robot-like towers whose rusty shells remain in the Thames estuary, looking out to the open sea, and the track takes the form of a sad love poem to the ocean. 

Things are wrapped up nicely with remixes from label boss Roi Koch, with a hypnotic interpretation of Life is Elsewhere and Van Did, who takes The Floating World to a darker, more introspective place. 

www.knopjemusik.com


Maunsell Sea Forts

Life Is Elsewhere

My remix for Echaskech's track Telomere is out on 7/7/14 on their Sovereign System EP (Just Music) Mastered by Guy Davie @ Electric Mastering (Jon Hopkins / Four tet). Played by Tom Ravenscroft on BBC6.

Echaskech - Telomere (Magic Panda Remix)

Young and talented Berlin producer Luftschloss signs his second EP "Nature By Numbers". Here are three soon-to-be classic tracks of dreamy and emotive artistic dance music, coloured by a joyful and inquisitive sensitivity to nature. An original and profound perspective on the relationship between music, logic, nature and sentiment. 

The release comes with a rich body of remixes from some of the best underground revelations in electronica. Groj extends Self-Propelled Particles for the dancefloor while staying true to his own sound and announcing the shape that his music will take in the coming years. Morris Cowan, known for his unique take on progressive psychedelic techno turns the same track around to make it into one of his most liberated experimental remixes. Magic Panda adds his own lo-fi melancholic and ethereal take on the Fairytale Tree anthem. 

A perfect backdrop for the shift from Summer to Fall or Spring to Summer. 

Happy listening !
credits
released 18 September 2014 

Copyright 2014 
Mastering: Kevin Jamey 
Distribution: Manual Music

http://boxrecords.bandcamp.com

Luftschloss - Fairytale Tree (Magic Panda Remix)

My latest track featured on Hypophrenia, a compilation on PFL Records including tracks by LKS, Karl M, Lefrenk, Hell's Kitchen and many more 

Worlds Within Worlds

Armed - Ciudad De Jerusalem (Magic Panda Remix)

days are numbered

the mid-levels

free DL via Bandcamp

beyond the burning horizon

A Perfect Circle

From shhht-16 EP on Silenced released in October 2012
EP available for free download at https://magicpanda.bandcamp.com/album/ships-on-fire-ep

Two Moons

taken from forthcoming Kid606 EP - Gimme Summer - Release date 21st August 2012 - MEOW192 - the original track will be on Kid606's new album -Lost in the Game - out soon.

Kid606 - New Boss Same As Old Boss (Magic Panda Remix)

Taken from: Various Artists /  Loki Story II (Loki Recordings) loki019 
Release Date: 29th April 2019

Loki Story II is a compilation of existing Loki artists plus some handpicked favourites by label boss Russian Linesman. 

It features new music from Sun Glitters, We Are All Astronauts, Stray Theories (under his Ocean Lost guise), Lanny May, Morris Cowan, Magic Panda, my.head, Aiden, Oculus, Avus, Matthys, anders., 1 UP, Roman Fahls and Sound Engraver. Enjoy the trip.

Loki Recordings was founded in 2010 by the Russian Linesman after a rousing jaunt to Iceland. Over the years Loki has had support from James Holden, Nick Warren, Sasha, Max Cooper, Laurent Garnier, Quivver, Nemone (BBC 6Music), Ibiza Sonica and many others.
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/label/loki-recordings/15992 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6RwBqUeQP9okewodmBvC6o

Loki Story II

Everything All The Time

Artist: Magic Panda 
Album Title: Tokyo 
Catalogue Number: meow193 
Label: Tigerbeat6 
Release date: Oct 22nd 
Format: Digital EP

Magic Panda creates ethereal and energetic electronic compositions, peppered with broken percussion and wistful melodies which swirl around a warm techno pulse and Tokyo is the perfect embodiment of this aesthetic.

Tokyo is a bold statement of intent showcasing the future direction Magic Panda is heading in. It is a beautiful, shimmering and propulsive merging of Border Community inspired techno and understated Lo-Fi-but-not-lazy shoegaze energy.

It is the first single from his forthcoming full length Tigerbeat6 Album "Temple of a thousand lights" and includes a stellar collection of remixes from Max Cooper, Kid606, Groj, Lanny May, Defled, and Mary Yalex.

2011-12 has seen Magic Panda developing his studio sound and live set up and he has enjoyed high profile concerts in the UK and across Europe, playing alongside the likes of Luke Abbott, Ricardo Tobar, The Portico Quartet, Mount Kimbie and DMX Krew.

First up on remix duties is none other than Max Cooper (Traum / Herzblut.) Max puts to work his unique blend of glitch-fused techno on 'Distant Places' , taking listeners on a melancholic journey through light and dark spaces. Kid606 steps things up with a 110 bpm high energy rework of Tokyo that strips the original of it's four on the floor pulse in lieu of a more laid-back 808 hip-hop groove.

Canadian artist Groj (Traum, Manual Music, Proton Music, and Zaubernuss) slows things down with his psychedelia-tinged interpretation of Tokyo, sparse percussion and swirly analog synths abound in this haunting sonic adventure.

Berlin-based Lanny May (Manual, Cinematique, Maripoza, Back Home) picks up the tempo with his pulsating remix. He deconstructs Tokyo in a sea of reverb and saturates it with his recognizable fusion of asymmetric rhythms and synths.

The EP is wrapped up nicely with two remix's of "A perfect circle"; A Haunting rework by Mallorcan producer Defled and a beautiful minimalist reconstruction by Mary Yalex.

Tracklist:

1 Tokyo	
2 Distant Places - Max Cooper remix 
3 Tokyo - "BlissPump" remix by Kid606 
4 Tokyo - Groj remix 
5 Tokyo - Lanny May remix 
6 A Perfect Circle - Defled remix 
7 A Perfect Circle - Mary Yalex remix

Tokyo

02 Distant Places - Max Cooper remix

From an EP released with Belgian netlabel, Silenced in October 2012
Free Download at https://magicpanda.bandcamp.com/album/ships-on-fire-ep

Ships On Fire

Echolalia

Free DL of a live version of The Glass Mountain from my current set. You can get a copy of The Glass Mountain EP here: http://www.beatport.com/release/the-glass-mountain-and-dream-theory/364454

the glass mountain (live version) FREE DOWNLOAD

Preview of my debut album, Temple of a Thousand Lights. Release date: 24/6/13 on Tigerbeat6 (meow198).

Tracklist:

01 Tokyo
02 A Perfect Circle
03 Days are Numbered
04 Chiaroscuro
05 Distant Places
06 Mothlight
07 Zwolf
08 Luna Rosa
09 Paper Crane
10 Temple of a Thousand Lights
11 Distant Places -Max Cooper Remix (Bonus Track)
12 Tokyo - Kid606 "Blisspump" Remix (Bonus Track)


buy the album

Temple of a Thousand Lights - album preview

Artist: Magic Panda
Album Title: Temple of a Thousand Lights
Catalogue Number: meow198
Label: Tigerbeat6
Release date: June 24th
Format: full length digital album
Label contact: tb6biz@gmail.com
Territories: Worldwide


Temple of a Thousand Lights is the debut album release from 31 year old UK producer Jamie Robson aka Magic Panda. An entire year in the making, Temple is the full length follow up to the well-received "Days are Numbered" and "Tokyo" EPs, with the titular tracks of both EPs making their way onto the LP.

Having spent several years establishing his sound, down to his acute and obsessive attention to detail, Magic Panda arrived late on the electronic music scene in 2011 with his debut EP, The Glass Mountain but in this short time has attracted support from and been playlisted by the likes of Laurent Garnier, Hernan Cattaneo and Max Cooper (whose remix of Distant Places featured on the Tokyo EP and skyrocketed to the top of the Beatport electronica charts). In addition to a handful of EPs and remixes, he has developed a club orientated live set and played alongside Luke Abbott, Ricardo Tobar, Mount Kimbie, Portico Quartet and DMX Krew both in the UK and across Europe. 

Temple of a Thousand Lights is an album of contrasts, from the propulsive and energetic opener Tokyo, and Zwolf, to the delicate and expansive Luna Rosa and Mothlight, it is an exploration of light and dark spaces (Chiaroscuro), euphoria and melancholia (Days are Numbered, A Perfect Circle). Despite these contrasts the tracks are unified by their powerful intensity, creative song form and by the thread of wistful melodies that runs throughout. Temple's melodies allude to far away spaces, both geographic (Tokyo, Paper Crane) and metaphysical (Distant Places, Temple of a Thousand Lights), and attempt to explore the transcendent qualities of music and its power to take the listener into the world of dreams and the unconscious.

Magic Panda offers us some insight into the production process that yielded the story telling sonics for us here, “With Temple, what I set out to achieve was a coherent and unified body of work, tracks that interplayed with each other, that make sense and become whole within the context of the album. I very much took an 'in the box' approach to production methods, utilising an array of soft synths, VSTs, effects and samples, and using the session format of Ableton Live 8 to sketch out  and develop ideas. I attempted to create a multi-layered, and complex sound throughout, starting with initial melodies as the building blocks and then building up a world of sound around these, utilising multiple contrasting synths, counter melodies, processed audio samples and peppering this with dynamic, scatty percussive arrangements.” 

Magic Panda's sound exists in a non restrictive manner in the peripheries of a range of sub genres spanning techno, progressive house, shoe-gaze, post-rock, electronica and ambient, reflecting and assimilating a wide range of influences from the delicate 'plinkerpop' of Morr Music's mum and Herrmann and Kleine, through the sonic experimentation of Border Community to the more cinematic progressive soundscapes of GYBE, Mono, MBV and Sigur Ros. This is a much travelled promise of a storytelling producer’s first full length achievement.

Tracklist:

01 Tokyo
02 A perfect circle
03 Days are numbered
04 Chiaroscuro
05 Distant places
06 Mothlight
07 Zwolf
08 Luna rosa
09 Paper crane
10 Temple of a thousand lights
11 Distant Places -Max Cooper Remix (Bonus Track)
12 Tokyo - Kid606 "Blisspump" Remix (Bonus Track)



Distant Places

Mothlight

Magic Panda is Jamie Robson - a lo-fi electronic music producer from Norfolk, UK.

Magic Panda has released a string of well received EPs with indie labels Tigerbeat6, Silenced, Knopje and Maripoza, drawing support from BBC6 Music, xlr8r, de:bug, Laurent Garnier, Hernan Cattaneo and Max Cooper amongst others.

He has taken his live set across UK and Europe, sharing line ups with the likes of Luke Abbott, Ricardo Tobar, Portico and Mount Kimbie as well as playing his own shows in Spain, Holland and Belgium. 

https://magicpanda.bandcamp.com/follow_me

Praise for previous work:
A near perfect debut album’ - Faze Magazin 
‘An album both exciting and enduring’ - Igloo Mag 
‘Shimmering and dark, austere and emotive, organic and digitalized - it's those kinds of sonic contradictions that make it so enjoyable to listen to’ - xlr8r 
‘Magic Panda set an incredibly high benchmark with epic tracks that combined glitchy melodies, piano lines and bass that you could drown in’ - Bearded Magazine 
‘I’m a fan of his music, he’s been releasing some great stuff over the last couple of years’ - Max Cooper 
‘Ascending keys, ethereal and beautiful composition, elevating synths, resonating synths, multiple and harmoniously layered synths…inspired stuff for nice people who want to be reminded the world is beautiful’ 
- Cyclic Defrost

Magic Panda

Popular tracks