[douglasdickel]

"(...) It's a shame that these areas missed out on the Pan Sonic experience - and trust me, it is an experience.

"Seeing Pan Sonic perform live has never been a letdown for me. Sometimes it's noisier, sometimes it's more ambient, but it's always loud and intense. The Mercury Lounge show was a top performance, a study in contrast between utter brutality and perfect calm -- brutal in the sense of a near-intolerably loud barrage of essentially pure noise (I still don't know how people go to Pan Sonic shows and seem surprised at the decibels!), but calming because if you yield yourself, there's nothing quite like letting your mind and body wallow in the sound.

"The only letdown was the lack of live oscilloscope readings of the music projected behind the performers, which they have done before. It's too appropriate, really - here is a band that is devoted to sound in its purest, most unadulterated form - and when you can see what you're hearing, those beautiful waveforms, it really brings it home that what you hear is pure art." (Micah Stupak)

Mika Vainio trabalhou, antes de formar o Pan Sonic, numa banda que seguia a linha dos Einstürzende Neubauten, tocando com similares "found instruments": rádios, ferramentas e objetos metálicos.

Ele disse que gosta de Aube. "Cardiac Strain [lançado pela Alien8 Records] is created solely from the human heartbeat, although one wouldn't guess it at first. Distinct heartbeat sounds are heard, but much of the album distorts and twists these sounds beyond recognition." (AMG)