Pan Sonic – Vakio

Robert Lippok: When a friend played me Pan Sonic‘s first EP in 1994, I said that my analogue synthesizer produces sounds like that when it’s left alone at home. Nevertheless, I was very impressed by the refusal to be music and the consistency with which it was done. »Vakio«, which was released a year later, set the style for an entire genre of electronic music. Techno was redeemed from having to be pure club music. I was lucky enough to see their first Berlin gig.Ilpo Väisänen and Mika Vainio were standing behind the counter of the Panasonic club run by Mo Loschelder and Daniel Pflum (legend has it that they named themselves after the Venue) with their equipment, grinding and humming loudly. On a small black and white television mounted above the bar, you could see a sine wave moving in synchronisation with the music. It wasn’t much more than that and it was great.