Our industry always celebrates the birth of a new member. While free downloads seem to give producers the publicity they need and music therefore is moving faster than ever, on the other hand, responsible DJ's keep supporting labels and guaranteeing the continuity of our passion. Sirius Pandi,…..a very serious gang…. Seriously  Easy Going into Electronic Music as an international platform to push the artists founder members are specially keen on. A special bet on vinyl as the format that has made the DJ what he is today. That simple, that difficult, thank you for your support!

SP01_Ernie_Fresas y Anchoas (2006)

“Affinities EP” or the difference within the coherence. Clearcom, from Paris, with pure deep minimal electro  including a perfect break to warm up the dancefloor. Postman, from Tenerife, with dubby clicky atmospheric sounds. James Rod&Xar-Lee Kunf, from Badajoz, outstanding minimal techno for peak times, and Daxta, the label's honcho with some funny groovy irreverent stuff. 

Cover courtesy of our dear friend Chete from Madrid

SP02_Postman_37 (2006)

After their acclaimed "Ensalada de sonidos" on our second release, time to introduce now our live performance with this outrageous young Spanish duo. Twisted, unpredictable and prominent minimal beats from the purest funkiest grooves to the beat deepest techno madness. 

Cover by Chete

SP04_James Rod & Xar - Lee Kunf_Breaknecker (2007)

 	

First class remixes for the labels 5th release. XPANSUL (Discos de Lata, Trapez, Plus 8...) and SEUIL (Eklo, Minibar, Einmaleins...) bring out their forces to touch one of the labels most experimental tracks, >cq Ea8ak< from label boss, Fernando Daxta. 

Cover by Mitch Le Belge

SP05_Daxta_CqEa8ak_Seuil's Creole Lover Remix (2007)

Sirius Pandi welcomes Boris Bagur from the French Basque Country scene. Bagur got our attention on his earlier Ep “Angle Droit” on Room 613 where both his original and the Ion Ludwig remix were well received and played. He finally joins the Sirius gang with these four fully seasoned jazzy tracks that will for sure captivate the most refined ears’ attention!!
ET VIVE LA FRANCE!!


SP09_BAGUR_4Ever (2009)

Already present in one of our digital compilations, it was time to have a solo release with Thomas O’Hara, from New York City. His is not an easy sound, and most probably many djs wont find this as “the sound of the season”…But for us it is refreshing to listen to new ways of constructing beats, deconstructing minds and shocking spirits. With these four tracks Thomas honors the reason of his interesting artist name: impossible with minimal? Maybe…but never with TECHNO!!! We wish him “buenos aires” for his music.

SP10_Minimal Impossible_Ever Nearing (2009)

One of our earlier label’s additions comes back to us in solo mode with 3 astonishing tracks that simply will make any dj set stand out thanks to their dynamics and ideas. 
“Bulevar Soul” is a modern jazzy house track with enough elements to power up any “in crescendo” dancefloor. “Cazavampiros” hunts any peak time vampire around with dope that includes perfect percussive loops cut with shocking electronic synthesis. “Atun con Pan” swings it back to live jazz experimentation, mixing keys, saxes, melodies and voices in a complete sound debauchery. 
What was the name of that guy again? JAMES ROD, Jaime Rodriguez for his mum and dad ;)

Cover by Mitch 'Le Belge'

SP11_James Rod_Bulevar Soul (2010)

Xar-Lee Kunf (James Rod’s minimal acolyte on some of our best earlier releases) comes back to us with his current Xar Lee tech house activity. 
Originally from Badajoz (Spain) Carlos Franco has been involved in mixing and production for quite a long now…With techno, break-beat, house and minimal influences, his tracks with partner James Rod were also released in labels like Italo Business, Beatmaniacs, Flumo and Suara, starting also their own imprint : Audiotactil Records. Rod’s original ideas and Kunf’s swingy grooves were well received and, together, they formed quite an astonishing live act duo, introduced in some respected underground venues.

As « Xar Lee », Carlos has been already released by Structure and Pild Records, signing a warm yet ultra rythmic tech house drive that is persuading the most classy players. Keep an eye on him.

Cover by Mitch 'Le Belge'



SP12_Xar Lee_Lo Que Tu Quieras (2010)

Sirius Pandi’s boss and one of the label’s key artists start a series of collaborations to bring their personal dance floor formulas into total siriusness consideration. «Esencia Nagual » is a 125 BPM shamanic, lysergic-spiced, powerful track which comes with a remix from Jack House killer, Mathias Mesteño. The perfect man to give the original a premium club treatment. Enjoy and expect more to come.

Cover by 'El Moro'

SP13_Fernando Daxta & James Rod_Esencia Nagual_Mathias Mesteño Remix (2011)

If you have been exposed to this cultural phenomenon called « electronic music » for more than a while, you will certainly have in mind something more than bright sunsets and perfect waves when you evocate that part of our awesome planet called «California». The West Coast has provided an own-harvested sound that strives to differ itself from surrounding mainstream conditions, making it fine and classy when it comes to underground house and techno music. Alland Byallo « ain’t no rookie » on the issue, rolling beats for enough years now to need no introduction. With productions on labels like Dirt Crew, Liebe Detail, Dirty Bird, Poker Flat or Nightlight Music (Alland’s own imprint) he can be well considered like the last but one exponent of a whole lineage of Californian producers.

Alland resumes all we are keen of when it comes to electonic music : elaborated, original, pure and effective timeless pieces. His constant positive feedback on our music led us to meet today Berlin’s based Mr. Byallo, agreeing to release with us 2 outputs from his San Francisco basement at Chris Lum’s reknowned "Moulton Studios". First track «Tribune» comes with a terrific kind of electro bassline, which seems to provoke hype-followers just before getting to an explosive deep swing on the break. The EP ‘s title « She Dines On My Eyes » is more like a fresh night starter, with driving percussions and atmospheric sound spectres. It was the track chosen for remixing issues by Alland’s parter in crime Mr. Clint Stewart from Nightlight and Paso Music. His Sampa remix is just a mind’s capturer and a transitional acoustic vortex that will be as effective as an alarm clock on any late night dancefloor. An absolute classic. Ipa Remix, available on digital release, is more of a warm up tool for this "YES PLEASE ARRIVE NOW FOR GOD'S SAKE" up coming warmmmmm season. In any case both remixes leave it quite clear: this is definetely someone you should keep an eye on. And yes we did it : to close the EP we "dared" to include an in-house label treatment by myself, available also on digital release. Alland’s sounds were way too tempting!

So, ready for da ride? Then dive into deep timbres and textures and get «siriusly» with us into post-modern electronic music. SHE will definetely dine on your eyes ! 



SP14_Alland Byallo_Tribune (2011)

After our sumptous dinner in San Francisco with Mr. Alland Byallo’s fantasies, we come quickly to our current ungoverned Belgian basement, where local live duo « Malistix » has been busy making some music (instead of after hours for a change!).
Indeed, these two homeboys just don’t care much about anything else a part from the share of music. But when they make it to the studio, it’s not to just play around with some loops.  That is what we thought when we signed them for  « The Change », one of our without any doubt best-aging vinyl references, where they already showed us some low pitched, old school analog manners. 
With the present « Don’t Play It » EP, the story continues with output covering a wider BPM range. After a tripping « Bô » opening the tracklist with downbeat landscapes, things get moving with « I don’t play it » and « Nice People Go To Hell », before rounding things up with a funky « Freedom » track, directly inspirared from one of Richie Haven’s improvisational interludes at Woodstock Festival. All tracks show an interesting combination of analog and digital recording techniques, together with  an skillfull instrumental playing.
Grooves for an upcoming and so-awaited Summer, so, in Belgian ungoverned humour : don’t play them!


SP15_Malistix_Nice People Go To Hell (2011)

Real drums and electric guitars in a ravey techno track? That is indeed what our ears heard the day we entered Berlin’s Ivory Tower studios to check what French sound fundamentalist Reynold and Sicilian talent Giovanni Verga had been preparing for a vinyl release with us.

As risky and untrendy as it may sound, if our label has grown to a teenager with 16 releases it’s because some people out there seem to be sharing our values regarding our four-to-the floor musical values. That was the case recently with San Francisco’s Alland Byallo for our last vinyl release and now we start this agitated though exciting 2012 with Reynold, whose work managing Trenton Records is a credit to the whole electronic music community, producing some of the (for us) more creative and original pieces of music during the last decade.

For this release the new Berlin duo play every note and rhythm on real instruments giving us the sensation of actually having a rock band playing some techno for us here in Raveland: drums, guitars, bass, keyboards…The result is a tremendous peak time track that should take the crowd up to that ‘into the bone’ (or maybe ‘into the soul’) moment. An A side that, if it may not be intended to be played in every club you may find yourself, we think that injected in the right ‘space/time coordinates’, it will definitely make the difference in your set, even in the years to come...On the flip side, for the creative B2 track the guys seem to have taken a flight to the
warmer lands of Jamaica with their ‘Freaky Leaks’. With this brilliant set of organic sounds the duo bring the real DUB thing back, presumably finding Jamaica as the perfect place for those early, or in between, downbeat hours. WE LIKE. And no worries, fans of the well-rounded vinyl track list as we are, we didn’t forget to come back from all this sound escapes with a return flight captained by our label manager Fernando Daxta, who provides a deep club tool, warm-up orientated remix to 'Into the Bone'.

Together, the three tracks should round up the angles of your usually tight dj budget; so consider the pressing (as any other record you may fancy) a long-term musical investment! It will not only provide you with those marvelous dynamics only vinyl can give, but it will also avoid you asking the nightmare-like ‘digital’ question: “Which track was that one with guitars and analog stuff I used to play?”


SP16_Reynold & Giovanni Verga_Freaky Leaks (2012)

After a series of remixes and collaborations it was about time to have some originals from label owner Fernando Daxta…ohh wait, that’s me !! Not in the mood for shameless auto info sheets ( at least for this one ;) so here I am with what I've been up to in the last few months . A new EP containing 3 tracks plus a remix by the one and only PHILIPPE QUENUM who joins our palmares of reknown prestige collaborations. 
With the first track, « Anthropocene », I try to set the mode for an easy night start. The day I recorded it a friend posted a video that matched the track so well that I decided to add that piece of pro-environmental information for us here dancers in Western land. WIth «Sun Spots» I also played with documentary material, but on the other way around, as I departed from  «2012, Science or Superstition», film that I actually recommend ;). It got me into the mood for this swingy tech house groover that would tweak things up through a tense break and up to the soundscapes of pumping techno. Quenum, one of the most respected artists and best human beings that I’ve had the chance to meet in this sometimes strange electronic music world, showed himself very keen on it and proposed to work on a remix. Of course we enthusiastically embraced the idea as not only we simply LOVE the man (can you tell?) but also because we knew that he would certainly add big magic to the original through both his personal natural-Afrikanische-born groove and his tremendous production skills. And I think it has definitely been the case. His long build up creates a deep evolving vibe that I’m sure it will make the wonders of all refined jockeys out there. Lastly, « Home Is in Your Heart » came out on of one of those melodic-thankful-happy-days. Its groove is simple and its melody was written together with my Chilean friend and musical maestro Matias Galvez during a session held last Summer in Mexico City. A BIG SHOUT goes to him for this great moment of musical sharing.
Enough blabla folks. I hope you enjoy the release and, if that is the case, don’t forget the support thing!!


SP17_Daxta_Sun Spots_Quenum Remix (2012)

With previous releases on labels like Highgrade, District of Corruption, Supdub, Igloo, Nordik Net, Freizeitglauben, Cimelde, or Microzoo, Mr. Beeston had already capted our attention for being in the line with something we have believed in since the founding of our label : groove, sound uniqueness and attention to details. 

Having made the big move from his beautiful hometown to cold Berlin in 2006, Simon is by now one of the usual suspects in town, visible both as a respectable DJ and a cheerful gent in clubs like Watergate, Panorama Bar, Katerholzig, Renate or Chalet. One can say he has even gained some rooted blood links here in the sleepless city ;).

In order to showcase his production versatility, we have gathered three different tracks from his répertoire, which should perfectly find their way to this so-desired Summer season : some early night (or morning) deep house, some catchy start–up basslines and some more mental partyful grooves. The latter was a good fun piece to be retouched by 'the label guy'  Fernando Daxta.

Check the music and look up for more stuff from the Auckland’s (now half German) guy, Mr. Simon Beeston!


SP18_Simon Beeston_Hong Kong Baby (2013)

Real drums and electric guitars on a ravey techno track? That is indeed what our ears heard the day we entered Berlin’s Ivory Tower studios to check what French sound fundamentalist Reynold and Sicilian talent Giovanni Verga had been preparing for a vinyl release with us.

As risky and untrendy as it may sound, if our label has grown to a teenager with 16 releases it’s because some people out there seem to be sharing our vision regarding our four-to-the floor musical values. That was the case recently with San Francisco’s Alland Byallo for our last vinyl release and now we start this agitated though exciting 2012 with Reynold, whose work managing Trenton Records is a credit to the whole electronic music community, producing some of the (for us) more creative and original tracks during the last decade.

For this release the new duo plays every note and rhythm on real instruments giving us the experience of actually having a rock band playing some techno for us here in Raveland: drums, guitars, bass, keyboards…The result is a tremendously intense ‘detroitish’ piece that should take the crowd up to that ‘into the bone’ (or maybe ‘into the soul’) moment. A track that, injected into the right ‘space/time coordinates’, will definitely make the difference, even in the years to come. For the creative B2 cut on the flip side, the guys took a flight to the warmer lands of Jamaica with their ‘Freaky Leaks’. With this brilliant set of organic sounds they bring the real DUB thing back, presumably finding Jamaica as the perfect place for those early, or in between, downbeat hours. WE LIKE. And no worries, fans of the well-rounded vinyl track lists as we are, we didn’t forget to come back from all these sound escapes with a return flight captained by label manager Fernando Daxta, who provides a deep club tool, warm-up orientated remix to 'Into the Bone'.

That’s all folks, we hope you are doing your homework for 2012 and we salute you with our usual greetings.  Viel Spass!


SP16_Reynold & Giovanni Verga_Into the Bone_Daxta Remix (Snippets)

REMEMBER 2006 - 2013 ---

Whereas some labels define themselves by continually releasing a particular sound, Sirius Pandi Label's modus operandi holds no allegiance to any specific style, instead emphasizing artistic freedom for each respective producer – the space between each beat is seen as an open field with infinite creative possibilities. Words like “techno”, “house”, "minimal", "disco", "electro"... are simply reference points, not strict rules. 

Our “Pandi” ( diminutive for 'Pandilla' ) puts out music that’s both imaginative and club-functional, trying not to take ourselves too “Sirius”ly – and neither do our zoological cartoon mascots crawling and flying across the label's artwork. Our tagline “Petit Label Sympa” reflects a nonchalance, pleasant and amusing attitude that we try to keep in music...and in life!

From current Berlin basement, but previously from Brussels and Toulouse, our Vinyls 12”s and Digital EPs focus on like-minded artists and friends, together with premium contributions from supporting players like Seuil, Dachshund, Xpansul, Alland Byallo, Mr. Statik or Mathias Mesteño, all representing our philosophy of aural exploration.

So if you’re a Sirius dance music lover with a carefree attitude, join the Pandi !!

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