Re: (idm) Re: Panacea?

From Brock Suter
Sent Sat, Jun 19th 1999, 02:13

Tomas Jirku wrote:
> 
> Moonlight wrote:
> >
> > >Panacea - Low Profile Darkness
> >
> > What are these guys like?  I just realized the other day that these guys
> > did the title track of "Synthetic Fury" with DJ Spooky.  That song's real
> > heavy drum and bass, but not really drillish, right?  Panacea like that
> > regularly?
> 
> one guy, (really)hardcore drum'n'bass. no avantgarde, beat cut-up
> trickery like drill'n'bass stuff, but really nice beat sequencing
> none-the-less. he's got the best grasp of the relationship between the
> drum and the bass of any d'n'b artist out there. most other d'n'b
> allstars can be compared to a bad audio system: all bass and high levels
> with weak mids that don't support and connect them. by that i mean:
> others sound like they whip up the beat sequencing and the basslines on
> separate continents. anyhow, he's recently doing alot more downtempo,
> hard acid stuff.
> any other panacea fans out there? or am i singing unheard praises?
> 
> what's a panacea?

'The cure'.

I'm a BIG panacea fan myself.  I've had some pretty interesting
conversations about him with lots of the top jungle producers in the UK,
all of which think his music is absolute shit.

Some of the funniest were from nico, whom panacea sampled aprox 85
percent of the sounds for his 'low profile darkness' LP from (the rest
being from ae and a few other sources).  Nico actually went into force
inc in germany (with one of the makai guys, who are all scared of the
force inc family) and asked them what the fuck was up with this panacea
guy sampling all his records.  They ended up giving him a remix to do of
mike inc's 'love inc', which although he (and ed rush) did it, they
weren't happy with, pulled all the mike inc samples out and turned it
into the title track off the torque lp.

Ooops, sorry for getting off the topic...

Anyway, I haven't been entirely happy with the direction panacea has
been going lately, mainly due to his overuse (just like everyone else)
of 'two step' beats.  Also, his slower stuff started out pretty good
(check the tracks on the electric ladyland comps) but he seams to have
petered out a bit.

The last really good thing I remember hearing from him was the single on
chrome with the makai rmx on the flip.  Nice one, lots of good old rave
noises!  :-)

brockout.