Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - STROBE.RIP
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 139
Release Date: 16 June 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/STROBE.RIP

Amnesia Scanner’s third full-length album titled STROBE.RIP is a collaboration with the artist and musician Freeka Tet, who joins the album and associated live performances as a vocalist and creative collaborator.

Released by PAN records, STROBE.RIP is part of a broader series of live performances, installations, videos and physical products created by the group.

Since its inception in 2014, Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala have continued to evolve and redefine Amnesia Scanner through experimentation across online and IRL realms. This album brings them a step closer to the latter.

With French-born, New York City-based Freeka Tet on board, STROBE.RIP acquires a new array of influences that draw from the multidisciplinary artist’s hacker mindset, shaping the sound into new forms. As a programmer and technologist, Freeka Tet’s work straddles commerce and art, combining intuitive and performative modes of expression with emergent technology and creative coding. Much like Amnesia Scanner, Tet draws from online vernacular and techno-magic to create satirical, uncanny work – artificially augmented, and highly engineered sounds, textures, images and ideas that translate memes and code into a more human and affective language.

Haimala and Kalliala say, “Amnesia Scanner is now living in the world it has built,” signaling a sincere commitment to the act. The human dimension in STROBE.RIP is chaotic: a reverse hero’s journey that merges deep-fried baroque with the quasi-angelic into a psychotic megamix of tropes, lyrics, genres, and sonic palettes that are both disorienting and deeply resonant.

The opening track Tongue Demons perfectly summarizes this, with blaring synth stabs and frenetic drum patterns paving the way for a broken melody arranged through a digital brass chord progression. Giggle and Bounds follow right after: two outstanding pieces of introspection signaling the melodic turn of the album, with the latter almost posing as a weirdo 2-step ballad filled with deep pads and pitched-up and down vocals.

The 160bpm, 4-to-4 pulsing kicks of Ledge and the palm-muted chords of Disperse serve as a perfect build-up to Ride, right in the middle of the tracklist: a summer hit from hell, a crooked saxophone-graced tune carried by a crusty, Balearic acoustic arpeggio. The alt acoustics continue with Damon, or at least before the track turns from Nirvana’s Unplugged to Slayer’s double kick drum pedals and becomes thrashtronica with Tet on screamo duties.

Things get softer with Clown, specifically in the chanted refrain, and even more aetherial in the almost trip-hop timbres of abandoned.club, where chopped-and-screwed vocals sing “I lost myself in the club.” Scorpions, Bats & Spiders is the abstract gem declaring the death of Deconstructed Club Music—a genre created by journalists and pioneered by the duo, among others. The words “deconstructed,” “club,” and “panel discussion” are spelled out in a vortex throughout the track as if they were to be carved on the genre’s imaginary gravestone. Closing the album, the saw bass of Cat serves Euro-electro à la Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction, while the doomed outro Merge closes the album in a triumphant aggregation of noise and pixelated drums that render the image of a crust-punk ensemble.

Written by Amnesia Scanner
Produced by Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet
Mastered by Enyang Urbiks

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Disperse (PAN 139)

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Bounds (PAN 139)

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Tongue Demons (PAN 139)

Closing track for ALL-IN collection N5 «Uptown Girl» Runway show

mix @Hektttt
artwork @betsabeabo

Girls just wanna have fun (Uptown Girl finale)

You Belong / Amsterdam

You Belong (feat. Lalla Skir)

True

True (KFR Hardcore Mix)

Le Diouck - Grace Joke 
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 159
Release Date: 27 June 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/GraceJoke

Le Diouck is a multidisciplinary Franco-Senegalese artist whose debut album “Grace Joke” was released on June 27, 2025, featuring collaborations with Bonnie Banane, Lala &ce, La Zowi, and Yves Tumor.

Born Magueye Diouck, the 30-year-old artist draws from his Senegalese roots and Parisian life to create work spanning music, illustration, and performance. Originally trained as an illustrator working on graphic novels, he transitioned into music and performs in Wolof, French, and English. He has also walked for Comme des Garçons and starred in Gucci campaigns.

His work exists “at the intersection of folktale, speculative fiction, and diasporic memory,” constructing worlds where mythology and identity intertwine. His “Fatéouma” performance at the Bourse de Commerce tells a medieval fantasy fable about Grace, a cyborg searching for memories, and Joke, a broken circus clown.

Joining labels PAN and &ce Reckless in 2021, Le Diouck collaborates across the French underground scene with producers like Modulaw, Low Jack, and Lewis Ofman. He represents a new generation of Franco-African artists blending cultural heritage with contemporary expression, using his platform to promote understanding that “embracing your ancestors’ culture shouldn’t be seen as a threat but a virtue.”

Le Diouck ft. Yves Tumor - Onigashima

metsänpeitto is a folklore story and mythology of becoming "covered by the forest"—a liminal state where one disappears into the woods as the surroundings suddenly become odd and unfamiliar—and finally lose touch with linear time

tracklist //

1 Wood Pigeon at Östersundom
2 Eartheater — Peripheral
3 Anatolian Weapons — An Afterthought
4 Deux Filles — Oakwood Green
5 ILYICH & Hani Mojtahedy — Frau Fisch
6 Rachika Nayar, Julianna Barwick, Cassandra Croft — Song to the Siren
7 Female Pentimento — Symbiotaxiplasm
8 jaqlin r — sword & chain
9 eurasian cranes in Eura
10 Klein — big dreams inc
11 Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka — Sudany
12 Arooj Aftab — Saaqi
13 Grouper — Moon Is Sharp
14 Lyra Pramuk — Oracle
15 Ulla & Ultrafog — lame mart
16 Pomme & Ichiko Aoba — Grandiose
17 Mirka Krivankova, Jirí Stivín & Jazz System Co. — Minimální Doteky
18 Carmen Villain — Kvinner vendt mot solen
19 Stars of the Lid — Requiem for Dying Mothers
20 Cassandra Wilson — Harvest Moon
21 homecoming

A mix for coming home from metsänpeitto

Sega Bodega's new EP is out now on Crazylegs.

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Check the 'CC' video here ☞ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMZX24CsGww

Mastered by @ziro-uk
Art direction by Simon Whybray
Notes by @shygirl_93

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Strawberry Switchblade - Go Away (Isabella's Ripe Remix)

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