Live in NYC 1/19 & 1/20: 1995

These two live sets by Pan Sonic from the 19th & 20th of January 1995 were recorded at the Disobey (London) club nights visit to The Knitting Factory, New York. These sets are Pansonic's first ever recorded live performances outside Finland! At that time they were a trio : Mika Vainio, Ilpo Vaisanen & Sami Salo. This 76 minutes long CD is the first on Jenny Divers, a new Mute sub-label dedicated to release a series of limited edition CD's, mostly from the artists live archive, in a unique generic stark minimalist package. Future confirmed releases will include further Pansonic live sets, plus other releases from Jimi Tenor, Caspar Brotzmann, & Cabaret Voltaire." Limited to 2000 copies worldwide. "The infamous Panasonic live set from the single stateside venture of the traveling Disobey club (in which the lineup consisted of Aphex Twin performing his piece for turntable/electric blender/sandpaper, Bruce Gilbert performing under his DJ Beekeeper moniker, etc...), live at the Knitting Factory in New York city in early 1995. Signed in 1994 to Blast First (after Paul Smith witnessed their first UK concert @ the Vox in late 1994), this was their American debut, spreading ripples of mis/disinformation about this unique Finnish trio (Sami Salo was still an active member at this point) throughout the US underbelly. As impressive sounding now as it was 5 years ago, if not more so (given Panasonic's recent forays into more dancefloor pro-active styles, dub grooves, less and less use of custom analog gear, etc...), it's still very much a mystery just exactly how these sounds came into life, what those boxes do, etc... An awesome extended meditation on machine sound, presented by it's finest latter day proprietors. Cold." -- Hrvatski.