"It feels like every artist is presenting their work in the same way that a gallery or an art institution would." Seven artists share their thoughts on the genre-bending label and its legacy.

Resident Advisor's April cover features Bill Kouligas, the singular curator at the helm of PAN. Now celebrating 15 years, the imprint's releases traverse a dizzying array of mediums and genres. As Whitney Wei writes in her article, PAN has long befuddled some people in electronic music. Its catalogue is a bricolage of musique concrete, improvisations, left-field club music, performance soundtracks and other strains of electronic-adjacent work that feel somewhat impossible to place. Amnesia Scanner's cyberpunk nu-metal and Eartheater's sweet singer-songwriter pop are some of the best examples of this immense range. But sitting in Bill's studio, she writes, everything makes sense in context. 

"I feel a lot of record labels tend to somehow fall under an umbrella of a sound, or a specific genre of music," reflect Amnesia Scanner in this episode of the Exchange. "With PAN, every artist is presenting their work as independent from the work of others, like in the same way that a gallery or an art institution would present work. Of course there are shared ideas and shared values and so on, but it's not built on a narrow idea of what kind of music PAN would represent."

The label has garnered a devoted fanbase that recognises the vision uniting this seemingly far-reaching output. And as Kouligas has moved increasingly towards interdisciplinary interests such as fashion soundtracking and art directing, his audience has followed him. The music on the label has done the same, evolving from tracks for the dance floor to documentation of avant-garde visual art. 

This episode of the RA Exchange collects music and interviews from key individuals who have shaped PAN's trajectory and canon, including Anne Imhof, Objekt, M.E.S.H., Rashad Becker, Amnesia Scanner, Eartheater and Low Jack. Listen to the episode in full. If you're looking for more PAN content, be sure to tune into our live RA Exchange with fellow PAN artist Tzusing from Rewire Festival, which aired last week. 

Tracklist: 

Anne Imhof - Dark Times (Sex)
Objekt - 35 (Cocoon Crush)
M.E.S.H. - Search, Reveal (Hesaitix)
Rashad Becker - Dances VII (Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II)
Amnesia Scanner - Faceless (Another Life)
Eartheater - Claustra (Irisiri)
Low Jack - Rough Rider (Low Jack Remix) (STILL)

EX.658 Source Material: 15 Years of PAN

encrypted voicemail w/ Drumloop & Giugno - 02/08/2023

乃ﾉ尺りりﾑ刀ᄃ乇尺
dl 🐦‍⬛

for for me, bird-dancer

Smerz on NTS - New York Music Diary 16.01.23

Tracks to soothe when sleep and dreams are escaping you. Sometimes this state can be romantic, serene, other times hellish. This mix attempts to capture the feeling of sleepless dozing, nodding, waking, daydreaming and nightmare-ing that can accompany sleep deprivation.
 
https://www.nts.live/shows/dreams-2023/episodes/dreams-2023-waking-hours-w-rosie-23rd-january-2024

Waking Hours W/ Rosie 240124

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Schiev Festival w/ RONCE @ Kiosk Radio 02.02.2024

Qetsy b2b IRRZ - 08/02/2024

ARTIST, DJ Cõvco sonically birthing a utopian place of chaku chaku. With her bi-monthly invitation, she explores her limitless approach to mixing, a soundclash of experimental/warped club beats mixed with her live melodic/chants acapella edits - her signature dancefloor experience. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/covco/episodes/covco-8th-february-2024

Covco 080224

House Of Red w/ Kumi Sow 02.03.24

NO MORE LIGHT?

SHMOOSH

HOME IS WHERE THE GORE IS

live&direct from the end </3 ~ 9pm 20.04.24 @ The Red Rattler Marrickville

Children of the golden age of Soundcloud, Venus and Fried Pork Chop blend deeeeep crates of glossy club and impeccable pop sensibilities. They rly just fucking send it lol.

Live @ The Final Athletica ~ Venus b2b Fried Pork Chop

RANGER INDIA'S $HOW**

http://www.lateralroma.eu/chambermusic.tobiaskoch

Chamber Music (2021) is a soundtrack that chronicles signs, objects, and messages after Bifo Berardi’s writings on the “age of imaginaries”. With referent musical instrumentations that overlay binaural field recordings, Koch renders multi-dimensional soundscapes to create sentient substructures for his sonic echo chambers. Replicating distinct characteristics of a florid age, Chamber Music has no beginning or end, sowing narratives through a process that relies on the spatial-temporal experience of listening.

The composition makes use of binaural 3D audio, which is only effective when listening through headphones.

All music by Tobias Koch

House Of Red w/ Kumi Sow 02.03.24

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