25/03/2008
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BIOGRAPHY (PAN POT )
A typical pan-pot only goes two ways, left and right. But this one to paraphrase Spinal Tap goes to three.
Pan-Pot’s backstory begins in Berlin, where in 2003 Tassilo Ippenberger, meets Thomas Benedix. Both are enrolled in music production classes, but believing that “production” means nothing without playing the music out, they launch their own series of parties.
One of their guests is Berlin DJ and producer Marco Resmann, aka DJ Phage, and that night fate’s fader begins its irrevocable slide into the red.
Memories of that night are hazy, but what is known is that the three meet not long thereafter in Marco’s Audio Gain Studio, and Pan-Pot is born. Tassilo and Thomas bring to the mix their hunger, budding production skills, and the freshness of being new arrivals to Berlin.
Marco has already begun making waves with his 2002 solo debut, the Volkspark EP, on Martin Landsky’s Intim Recordings; running parallel to Pan-Pot’s career, he’ll prove himself a restless collaborator in the Moon Harbour project Luna City Express, working alongside Norman Webber, and the duo Phage & Daniel Dreier, releasing on Highgrade and Playhouse.
As a production trio, Pan-Pot are undoubtedly rooted in Berlin its collaborative vision, its upstart attitude and its spirit of reinvention. Their music has obvious overlaps with the city’s omnipresent minimal techno, but they remain deeply rooted in earlier electronic-music movements from Berlin and beyond, reaching back to Chicago house and its imperative to jack. Across the trio’s EPs for mobilee and einmaleins musik and remixes for labels like Sender and Ware, tweakily inventive sound design meets time-tested, dancefloor-proven drum programming?plus a sense of humor that makes all the difference in the flow of the party. (Who else has the chutzpah to sample Owen Wilson into the middle of an ominous, peak-hour stormer?)
They may name themselves after a piece of gear, but Pan-Pot’s music is ultimately about moving bodies, not knobs. And the Pan-Pot DJ team (Tassilo and Thomas) deliver on that promise with sets that rope together crispy minimal, coolly restrained techno and hot and heavy house. Anyone who’s ever played with an analog synthesizer knows that all those pots and dials are there to be touched; Pan-Pot reaches out and touches right back?with a love slap from the heart of the Berlin underground.