Following up to his debut mini-album “Antennen” issued last year on Noorden, fellow Cologne-based producer Panta Rex returns to the label with “Lefty”, his sophomore three-track delivery which finds him scoping out the confines between photophobic modular techno, subsheavy traction and AI-operated melodicism. 

True to the intricate engineering of his first compositions, Panta Rex expands his sonic logos to even broader horizons of -altered- functionality. Most definitely a piece of club-oriented abstr-activism though offering vaster sequences and audio expanses to perambulate your mind within, “Lefty” is a mille-feuille of textural ambiguities, secret rooms and corridors – piecing together galloping dynamics with bleepy opaqueness as it leaves your mind out of focus all the way through to a steely, slo-burning yet highly choreographic finale. 

Veering off to a more aqueous, dubby state of mind, B1 “Swerve” draws the loud, muffled kicks and FX-drenched synth stabs for a much immersive ride in the deep, shrouded in organic envelopes and overlapping layers of intriguing sonic minutiae. Closing cut “Dizz” wraps it up on a more breaksy note with its contrasted ballet of wistful strings, sliced-and-diced drumwork and dissonant chimes opening us to a heightened, 90s-informed apex of sorts, where Panta Rex’s subtle touch and widescreen vision bloom all the more unreservedly. 

• Produced by @panta-rex  
• Mastered by Tim Xavier at Manmade Mastering Berlin
• Artwork by Vincent Schmid
• Design by Alex Ketzer
• Liner Notes by Baptiste Girou

Lefty

[TwelveNine] Panta Rex – Lefty

Das Kölner Label Noorden zelebriert dieser Tage zehnjähriges Bestehen. Der Sound? Irgendwo zwischen Broken-Beat, Techno und Ambient. Wir haben Gründer Alex Ketzer zum Interview getroffen und dabei einiges über die Arbeit mit einem Musiklabel erfahren.

Interview: https://bit.ly/2YWh1mT
Noorden: https://soundcloud.com/noorden
Alex Ketzer: https://soundcloud.com/alexketzer

DJ LAB / 018 / Noorden

Tracklist
So Soul Beautiful (Original Mix) - Jake Cusack
Into The Music (Instrumental) - Jake Cusack
The Night Feat. Joy (Original Mix) - Jake Cusack
Locomotion (Original Mix) - Jake Cusack
Maureen (Original Mix) - ASH-R
Good Ol' Days (Original Mix) - Broker
Skremme (Original Mix) - Caloter
Hollow Meadow (Original Mix) - Dan Goul
Outdoor Living (Original Mix) - Dani Pana
Adumu (Original Mix) - Easttown
Easttown (Original Mix) - Hey Dan
Do U Know (Original Mix) - Jizz
Playing with knifes (JC bootleg)

The DT Sessions 

Jake Cusack - The Sessions #017

Panta Rex was introduced to me due to his output on Noorden. When I moved to Cologne I was looking for people to start doing music with and Alex from Noorden introduced me to him. Soon he started to show me more of his music. 

I instantly felt in love with Dyade which is a beautiful song to end a set with that lasted the whole night and is ending when the sun is already shining again. By the way the working title of this beautiful song was dtf-uia.  

Youth in the 90s shows you where Panta Rex got his musical background from and it is a homage back to the golden times after the fall of the wall and all the never ending parties. 

Critter is a club hit with a long build-up and a drop that is unique in its own way, that lets you expect something different and it is also hitting very hard. 

Lares in the end is one of those songs that feels like an old Workshop record. House at its best and with lyrics brought onto point.

@panta-rex

Critter

Panta Rex - Critter (Kontrapunkt 06)

Panta Rex was introduced to me due to his output on Noorden. When I moved to Cologne I was looking for people to start doing music with and Alex from Noorden introduced me to him. Soon he started to show me more of his music. 

I instantly felt in love with Dyade which is a beautiful song to end a set with that lasted the whole night and is ending when the sun is already shining again. By the way the working title of this beautiful song was dtf-uia.  

Youth in the 90s shows you where Panta Rex got his musical background from and it is a homage back to the golden times after the fall of the wall and all the never ending parties. 

Critter is a club hit with a long build-up and a drop that is unique in its own way, that lets you expect something different and it is also hitting very hard. 

Lares in the end is one of those songs that feels like an old Workshop record. House at its best and with lyrics brought onto point.

https://soundcloud.com/panta-rex
https://soundcloud.com/kontrapunktsound

PREMIERE⚡️Panta Rex - Youth In The 90s [Kontrapunkt]

FATPOD#79 - @panta-rex
Panta Rex leaves nothing to be desired with its mix for Freude am Tanzen. Quite the opposite! You begin to long for more. A refreshing mix, which is so varied and well thought out that you would like to have it as an endless groove on vinyl. An inspiring insight into the endless expanses of cross-genre vibrations. Dubby, housy, jazzy, dreamy, calm, danceable, experimental and yet minimalistic. The DJ and producer from Cologne has already released music on tape and vinyl on the label Noorden and now his new EP "Critter" is released on Kontrapunkt.

Tracklisting:
00:00  Blastah - Fish Friends - WORLDWIDE UNLIMITED
03:42  Polygonia - Dreaming Trees - SURE THING
09:38  XorSize - Urn State - GOOD MORNING TAPES
12:19  Michel Redolfi - Ouverture - SUB ROSA
16:06  Pretty Sneaky - Mana D3 - MANA 10
17:33  Benedikt Frey & Tim Toh ft. Lukas Diller - Angst - R.I.O.label
21:40  Thomas Fehlmann - Offline - MINIMAL DETROIT
25:43  Orson - Toxic Waste - VERSION
29:18  Jordan GCZ - Zero Gravity Blanket - MINIMAL DETROIT
33:50  Toh Inc. - Network Condition - MAJESTIC CASUAL
40:35  Antenna - Park Life - CLONE ROYAL OAK
45:30  Lil´Louis - How I Feel - DANCE MANIA
48:55  Dimi & Marx - Ain´t Noise and Noise and Noise (Roger 23 Remix) -
NOORDEN
52:08  Panta Rex - Unknown
58:32  Jeremy Hyman - Madness - FUTURE TIMES
01:03:00 Madteo - Episcopi Vagantes - HONEST JONS
01:10:00 Vainqueur - Solanus (Extracted 2) - TRESOR

Freude am Tanzen Podcast

FATPOD#79

Stream

FATPOD-79 - Panta Rex

@sub-accent (France)
Sub Accent is a DJ and producer from Clermont-Ferrand. He is the founder of @AccentsRecords (^^^).

_Few memories from Sub Accent about our festival La Vallée Électrique 2022:
“The discovery of the place, diving into the valley, very green at the end of spring. To discover the dome under which I met many friends, DJs, producers, label managers, the community. The moment when I really got into my set was special,  realising that the crowd is great, curious, and very receptive. The sets which follow one another are of great quality, Gëinst and Polygonia in particular were superb! And many other memories…”

La Vallée Électrique festival 2023 is online! :)

tickets: https://shotgun.live/fr/festivals/la-vallee-electrique-2023

Tracklist: 

1 - Boozoo Bajou - Jan Mayen [Apollo Records]
2 - O.utlier - Untilted (Side B) [Verdant Recordings]
3 - Eliane Radigue - Occam Ocean II [Shiiin]
4 - Lena Andersson - Le... [Raster]
5 - Notte Infinita - Splitter stuff [INDEX:Records]
6 - First Epoque - Sequoia Affinis [Well Street Records]
7 - Kincaid - Dripping Back [Grid]
8 - Caldera - BL Rod [Unrelease]
9 - Zadig - Solar Dust [Accents Records]
10 - Caldera - HK [Noorden]
11 - xpedient - E0010 (Shelley Parker Remix) [Entangled Visions]
12 - Hyperactive Leslie - Soli [Airfono Records]
13 - Forest Drive West & Localhost - Recursion [Echocord Records]
14 - Gëinst - Evangelion [Unrelease]
15 - Bas Dobbelaer - Between phases [Lowless]
16 - Unknown - Staub 006 [Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound]
17 - Emika Elena - Reflection (Multicast Dynamics Remix) [Human Lessons]
18 - Rrose - Nest of Queens [EAUX]
19 - Geïnst - ATMA [Unrelease]
20 - Luke Slater - Love (Planetary Assault Systems Low Blow Remix) [Hardwax]
21 - Donato Dozzy - Aquatica [Palinoia]
22 - Marboc - Result Of Observation [International Day Off]
23 - Luigi Tozzi - Atacama [Non Series]
24 - Luigi Tozzi - Raiders [Hypnus]
25 - Randomer & Hodge - Simple As [Livity Sound] 
26 - Mafou - Blind [Somatic Rituals]
27 - Robert Fleck - Bromine [Well Street Records]
28 - Mohlao - Cut [Hypnus]
29 - Korridor - Array [Kynant Records]
30 - Marco Shuttle - Spaziale [Eerie Records]
31 - Retina.it - Kykeon [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
32 - Polygonia - Arachnida [PhonoTropismi]
33 - Sub Accent - System Privacy [Concrete Records]
34 - Hodge & Simo Cell - Drums from the West [Livity Sound]
35 - Phara - Distant Echo [Futurepast]
36 - Nuel - Princess Perfume [Northern Electronics]
37 - Pugilist - Apple Core [Branch Points]
38 - Wax - No. 30003 [Wax]
39 - Eduardo De La Calle - 012 [Analog Solutions]
40 - Yilan - Surfaces [Earth Movement]

LVE 2023 :)

La Vallée Électrique 2022 • Sub Accent

With »V« Noorden presents the second album of Cologne-based artist Panta Rex.
Embracing your expressive states and your meditative inner moments, the slightly more minimalistic atmosphere of »V« is composed using a palette of sounds a wee bit darker than on the artist’s first album »LP1«.
They’re sourced from memories of first musical encounters and samples from new age records of Panta’s parents’ collection meeting field recordings, Orffian percussion, and analog machines.
Reflections on trance, energy, and escapism influenced the album’s
production. We dearly hope you enjoy the music – be it dancing or resting.
@panta-rex
@noorden

• https://noorden.bandcamp.com/album/v
• https://www.instagram.com/noorden.rec/
• https://www.instagram.com/thepantarex/
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Premiere : Panta Rex - Beide [Noorden Records]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-pantha-rex-wachs 

To coincide with the immediate release of @panta-rex second album 'V', today we shift our attention on the penultimate track from the limited edition cassette, issued on Cologne's consistently experimental outpost @noorden

Panta Rex - Wachs [Noorden]

With »V« Noorden presents the second album of Cologne-based artist Panta Rex.

Embracing your expressive states and your meditative inner moments, the slightly more minimalistic atmosphere of »V« is composed using a palette of sounds a wee bit darker than on the artist’s first album »LP1«.

They’re sourced from memories of first musical encounters and samples from new age records of Panta’s parents’ collection meeting field recordings, Orffian percussion, and analog machines.

Reflections on trance, energy, and escapism influenced the album’s production. We dearly hope you enjoy the music – be it dancing or resting.

https://soundcloud.com/panta-rex
https://soundcloud.com/noorden

PREMIERE⚡️Panta Rex - Beetle Ride [Noorden]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-alex-ketzer-black-sun 

Cologne-based experimental electronica outpost @noorden return with a 5-track extended player from label founder @alexketzer. 'Fourth Face' packs an array of leftfield sounds, including bubbling electronica, dub house, experimental breaks and piano soaked ambiance.

Fourth Face

Alex Ketzer - Black Sun [Noorden]

Noorden is a Cologne/Germany based label for electronic(a) music. LL.M. (@noorden_llm) is our sublabel.

Sorry, we don’t accept demos.

[TwelveNine] Panta Rex – Lefty

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