PAN SONIC
Aaltopiri
Boomkat Product Review:
Pan Sonic’s mighty 4th album - a 2000AD blueprint for offbeat, sinuous techno minimalism and industrial noise disciplines - depicts Ilpo Väisänen & Mika Vainio’s legendary duo at a crest of their powers, manipulating pure electricity with faraday gloves in subzero climes
Upon its release at the turn of the millennium, ‘Aaltopiri’ marked a decisive shift from the icy, linear rigidity of previous Panasonic works to a varied topography of discrete noise and undulating rhythm across its 70 minute mass. Arriving at roughly midway in a journey that began in 1993 and finished in 2009, the album’s 17 tracks foretold the structures and styles of Pan Sonic albums to come, tiling fragments of expressive beat-less pieces alongside signature, incandescent electro-dub and hip hop-weighted downstrokes, plus an industrialised pummel in the sharpest definition of their shared, broad tastes distilled to a singular spectrum. It remains one of their most absorbing and classic sides and a reference point for radical electronic music ever since.
Notable for closing with one of our fave Pan Sonic cuts, bar none, in the pendulous dancehall noise crusher ‘Kierto’, the album is a long playing trip in the truest sense, taking listeners by the scruff of the ear on a world-building tale of two halves. In the first they establish cavernous parameters, vacillating enigmatic miniatures that sound the subconscious of the machines, with the ice and rock-hewn electro-dub of ‘Vaihtovirta’ and thawed wobble of Johdin’ leading into psychoacoustic noise of ‘Aanipaa’ and waltzing, airborne elegance of ‘Liuos’, before the detuned deliquescence of ‘Ulottuvuus’ signals a 2nd half headed by the fathomless depth perceptions of ‘Reuna-Alue’. From here in their industrial instincts come to the fore in the abandoned arctic dockyard ambience of ‘Valli’, chased by the industrial jigginess of ‘Kone’ and nerve-gnawing substance of ‘Johto 3’, and ultimate finishing move in ‘Kierto’.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Pan Sonic’s mighty 4th album - a 2000AD blueprint for offbeat, sinuous techno minimalism and industrial noise disciplines - depicts Ilpo Väisänen & Mika Vainio’s legendary duo at a crest of their powers, manipulating pure electricity with faraday gloves in subzero climes
Upon its release at the turn of the millennium, ‘Aaltopiri’ marked a decisive shift from the icy, linear rigidity of previous Panasonic works to a varied topography of discrete noise and undulating rhythm across its 70 minute mass. Arriving at roughly midway in a journey that began in 1993 and finished in 2009, the album’s 17 tracks foretold the structures and styles of Pan Sonic albums to come, tiling fragments of expressive beat-less pieces alongside signature, incandescent electro-dub and hip hop-weighted downstrokes, plus an industrialised pummel in the sharpest definition of their shared, broad tastes distilled to a singular spectrum. It remains one of their most absorbing and classic sides and a reference point for radical electronic music ever since.
Notable for closing with one of our fave Pan Sonic cuts, bar none, in the pendulous dancehall noise crusher ‘Kierto’, the album is a long playing trip in the truest sense, taking listeners by the scruff of the ear on a world-building tale of two halves. In the first they establish cavernous parameters, vacillating enigmatic miniatures that sound the subconscious of the machines, with the ice and rock-hewn electro-dub of ‘Vaihtovirta’ and thawed wobble of Johdin’ leading into psychoacoustic noise of ‘Aanipaa’ and waltzing, airborne elegance of ‘Liuos’, before the detuned deliquescence of ‘Ulottuvuus’ signals a 2nd half headed by the fathomless depth perceptions of ‘Reuna-Alue’. From here in their industrial instincts come to the fore in the abandoned arctic dockyard ambience of ‘Valli’, chased by the industrial jigginess of ‘Kone’ and nerve-gnawing substance of ‘Johto 3’, and ultimate finishing move in ‘Kierto’.
Boomkat Product Review:
Pan Sonic’s mighty 4th album - a 2000AD blueprint for offbeat, sinuous techno minimalism and industrial noise disciplines - depicts Ilpo Väisänen & Mika Vainio’s legendary duo at a crest of their powers, manipulating pure electricity with faraday gloves in subzero climes
Upon its release at the turn of the millennium, ‘Aaltopiri’ marked a decisive shift from the icy, linear rigidity of previous Panasonic works to a varied topography of discrete noise and undulating rhythm across its 70 minute mass. Arriving at roughly midway in a journey that began in 1993 and finished in 2009, the album’s 17 tracks foretold the structures and styles of Pan Sonic albums to come, tiling fragments of expressive beat-less pieces alongside signature, incandescent electro-dub and hip hop-weighted downstrokes, plus an industrialised pummel in the sharpest definition of their shared, broad tastes distilled to a singular spectrum. It remains one of their most absorbing and classic sides and a reference point for radical electronic music ever since.
Notable for closing with one of our fave Pan Sonic cuts, bar none, in the pendulous dancehall noise crusher ‘Kierto’, the album is a long playing trip in the truest sense, taking listeners by the scruff of the ear on a world-building tale of two halves. In the first they establish cavernous parameters, vacillating enigmatic miniatures that sound the subconscious of the machines, with the ice and rock-hewn electro-dub of ‘Vaihtovirta’ and thawed wobble of Johdin’ leading into psychoacoustic noise of ‘Aanipaa’ and waltzing, airborne elegance of ‘Liuos’, before the detuned deliquescence of ‘Ulottuvuus’ signals a 2nd half headed by the fathomless depth perceptions of ‘Reuna-Alue’. From here in their industrial instincts come to the fore in the abandoned arctic dockyard ambience of ‘Valli’, chased by the industrial jigginess of ‘Kone’ and nerve-gnawing substance of ‘Johto 3’, and ultimate finishing move in ‘Kierto’.
Boomkat Product Review:
Pan Sonic’s mighty 4th album - a 2000AD blueprint for offbeat, sinuous techno minimalism and industrial noise disciplines - depicts Ilpo Väisänen & Mika Vainio’s legendary duo at a crest of their powers, manipulating pure electricity with faraday gloves in subzero climes
Upon its release at the turn of the millennium, ‘Aaltopiri’ marked a decisive shift from the icy, linear rigidity of previous Panasonic works to a varied topography of discrete noise and undulating rhythm across its 70 minute mass. Arriving at roughly midway in a journey that began in 1993 and finished in 2009, the album’s 17 tracks foretold the structures and styles of Pan Sonic albums to come, tiling fragments of expressive beat-less pieces alongside signature, incandescent electro-dub and hip hop-weighted downstrokes, plus an industrialised pummel in the sharpest definition of their shared, broad tastes distilled to a singular spectrum. It remains one of their most absorbing and classic sides and a reference point for radical electronic music ever since.
Notable for closing with one of our fave Pan Sonic cuts, bar none, in the pendulous dancehall noise crusher ‘Kierto’, the album is a long playing trip in the truest sense, taking listeners by the scruff of the ear on a world-building tale of two halves. In the first they establish cavernous parameters, vacillating enigmatic miniatures that sound the subconscious of the machines, with the ice and rock-hewn electro-dub of ‘Vaihtovirta’ and thawed wobble of Johdin’ leading into psychoacoustic noise of ‘Aanipaa’ and waltzing, airborne elegance of ‘Liuos’, before the detuned deliquescence of ‘Ulottuvuus’ signals a 2nd half headed by the fathomless depth perceptions of ‘Reuna-Alue’. From here in their industrial instincts come to the fore in the abandoned arctic dockyard ambience of ‘Valli’, chased by the industrial jigginess of ‘Kone’ and nerve-gnawing substance of ‘Johto 3’, and ultimate finishing move in ‘Kierto’.
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