Following a long and prolific career, experimental-music groundbreaker Mika Vainio, best known as one half of Pan Sonic, has died. Reps for the Finnish musician confirmed to the media that Vainio ...

There's "electronic music," and then there's "electronica," and while fans of the latter may not recognize the former as music when they hear it, electronic-music fans certainly know enough about ...

Before he died at the age of 53 earlier this year, Mika Vainio—of experimental electronic duo Pan Sonic—was working on a new solo album. Now, that project is being prepared for release. It’s called ...

After a massive world tour that nearly killed them, instead of holing up at home for a little down time, Finnish duo Pan Sonic (Mika Vainio and Ilpo Vaisanen) instead decided to create a four-disc ...

Part minimalists, part purist ascetics, the artists of the electronic "glitch" movement—those who make the most of the least, transforming snaps, crackles, and pops into skipping soundscapes—don't ...

Pan Sonic has spent more than a decade reducing techno to its barest form, an austere landscape erupting with gut-rumbling beats and lacerating tones. On most of their early records Mika Vainio and ...

Kesto loosely translates as “duration,” which is appropriate for a four-disc, four-hour album of electronic minimalism. Finland’s Pan Sonic are as noisy as ever, and there’s still nothing resembling a ...

To have seen Pan Sonic live is to have witnessed a display of astonishing intensity and beautiful mechanical brutality. Quite why the ascetic Finnish duo rarely capture this splendour on record is a ...