Podcast appearances and mentions of bill kouligas

"It feels like every artist is presenting their work in the same way that a gallery or an art institution would." Seven artists share their thoughts on the genre-bending label and its legacy. Resident Advisor's April cover features Bill Kouligas, the singular curator at the helm of PAN. Now celebrating 15 years, the imprint's releases traverse a dizzying array of mediums and genres. As Whitney Wei writes in her article, PAN has long befuddled some people in electronic music. Its catalogue is a bricolage of musique concrete, improvisations, left-field club music, performance soundtracks and other strains of electronic-adjacent work that feel somewhat impossible to place. Amnesia Scanner's cyberpunk nu-metal and Eartheater's sweet singer-songwriter pop are some of the best examples of this immense range. But sitting in Bill's studio, she writes, everything makes sense in context. "I feel a lot of record labels tend to somehow fall under an umbrella of a sound, or a specific genre of music," reflect Amnesia Scanner in this episode of the Exchange. "With PAN, every artist is presenting their work as independent from the work of others, like in the same way that a gallery or an art institution would present work. Of course there are shared ideas and shared values and so on, but it's not built on a narrow idea of what kind of music PAN would represent." The label has garnered a devoted fanbase that recognises the vision uniting this seemingly far-reaching output. And as Kouligas has moved increasingly towards interdisciplinary interests such as fashion soundtracking and art directing, his audience has followed him. The music on the label has done the same, evolving from tracks for the dance floor to documentation of avant-garde visual art. This episode of the RA Exchange collects music and interviews from key individuals who have shaped PAN's trajectory and canon, including Anne Imhof, Objekt, M.E.S.H., Rashad Becker, Amnesia Scanner, Eartheater and Low Jack. Listen to the episode in full. If you're looking for more PAN content, be sure to tune into our live RA Exchange with fellow PAN artist Tzusing from Rewire Festival, which aired last week. Tracklist: Anne Imhof - Dark Times (Sex) Objekt - 35 (Cocoon Crush) M.E.S.H. - Search, Reveal (Hesaitix) Rashad Becker - Dances VII (Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II) Amnesia Scanner - Faceless (Another Life) Eartheater - Claustra (Irisiri) Low Jack - Rough Rider (Low Jack Remix) (STILL)

Bill Kouligas is the mind behind one of modern electronic music's greatest and most innovative labels, PAN. His remarkable ear for music meant that he released some of the earliest records from luminaries like Yves Tumor, Helena Hauff and Eartheater, helping to jumpstart several remarkable careers. And each PAN release is lovingly and lavishly packaged like an art object in itself, an approach you can read more about in this month's feature-length cover story. The Berlin artist's RA Podcast is an audio companion to that cover story, and it underlines not only Kouligas's range as a label A&R but also as a DJ. Reflecting the label's evolution from straight-up noise to musique concréte to leftfield dance music and then avant-pop, the mix cycles through stages of strange, staggered beats, almost celestial ambient music, passages of overwhelming noise and sound that sublimate into floating clouds before solidifying back into club music, and a couple engaging spoken word passages and endless manipulations of the human voice. In other words, it sounds a lot like PAN. @pan_hq Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/880

We meet Bill Kouligas, the founder and label boss of the Berlin record label PAN which spans cutting-edge electronic music, avant-garde sound art, scuzzy noise and nauseating ASMR. Of all the labels featured on Relevant Parties so far, it’s probably home to the most extreme material – records that poke at the edges of what makes sound into music. Bill, who set up PAN in 2008, talks to Chal about the meaning of “difficult” music and the diversity of artists on the roster, from jungle auteur Lee Gamble to demonic pop sprite Eartheater. As well as digging into the label’s 13-year history, he also considers the post-pandemic future for underground culture. Check out the accompanying RELEVANT PARTIES Playlist on Spotify: https://bit.ly/relevantparties_playlist PAN: https://soundcloud.com/pan_hq | https://delinear.p-a-n.org/ | https://www.instagram.com/pan__hq/ Carhartt WIP: https://www.carhartt-wip.com/ | https://instagram.com/carharttwip/

Les Tympans de Magellan, c'est un podcast mensuel qui fait voyager vos oreilles. Chaque mois, un nouveau pays mis à l'honneur à travers une liste de morceaux soigneusement choisis. Le pays du mois : Pour cet épisode vingt virgule cinq, on passe les morceaux envoyés par les auditrices et auditeurs quand on leur a demandé des titres grecs. Et on accompagne ça de leur petit commentaire. Tracklist : Gregorio Paniagua & Atrium Musicae De Madrid - "Anonymi Bellermann" (choix de Triton) Deaf Radio - "Revolving Doors" (choix de Manu) Τάνια Τσανακλίδου (Tania Tsanaklidou) - "Στο Άδειο Μου Πάκετο (Sto Ádeio Mou Páketo)" (choix d'Yiol) Mass Infection - "Ominous Prevision" (choix d'Arno Vice) Amnesia Scanner & Bill Kouligas - "Lexachast VIII" (choix de Léo) Δαιμόνια Νύμφη (Daemonia Nymphe) - "Daemonos" (choix de Plock) Angélique Ionatos - "Omorphi Ke Paraxeni Patrida" (choix de Félix) Ελευθερία Αρβανιτάκη (Eleftheria Arvanitaki) - "Etsi Ein' I Zoi" (choix d'Hadi) Απόστολος Λουφόπουλος (Apostolos Loufopoulos) - "Bee" (choix de Lok) Aphrodite’s Child - "Rain and Tears" (choix de Khamsou) Xylouris White - "Only Love" (choix de Triton) Naxatras - "Shiva's Dance" (choix de Manu) Aphrodite’s Child - "The Four Horsemen" (choix de Lok) Merci à toutes et tous pour votre participation ! • Générique de début : Depeche Mode - "World in My Eyes"• Générique de fin : Wyatt / Atzmon / Stephen - "What a Wonderful World" Retrouver le podcast : XSilence | Facebook | Twitter | iTunes | Podcloud

The usual blend of abstract noises coming from across the globe this week. There's Lebanese belly dance music punctuated with Polish breakcore, experimentation from the magnificent Amnesia Scanner, amongst pleasant indie rock, video game music, and abrasive noise. Tracklisting Scalping - Satan II (Council Records, UK) Amnesia Scanner & Bill Kouligas - Lexachast VIII (PAN Records, Germany) Jan St. Werner - Glottal Wolpertinger (Thrill Jockey, USA) Lena Raine -Tsukuyomi (Local Action Records, UK) Orchestra of Constant Distress - Discomfort (Riot Season Records, UK) Ziad Rahbani - Taksim Organ & Tabla (Fortuna Records, Israel) Bogdan Raczynski - 318 22t7 (Disciples, UK) Demolition Honey - Relaxin’ At Mayhem Hotel (Ohub Records, Argentina) My Disco - An Intimate Conflict (Downwards, UK) Van Goose - Wildstar (self-release, USA)   Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc  

Harm van den Dorpel is a Berlin-based dutch conceptual artist regarded a key figure in post-internet art movement. Alongside with other contemporaries, they developed a new way of exploring technology, digital footprints and social networks. He was at Unsound Krakow 2016 bringing the visual element to Lexachast, a project by Bill Kouligas and Amnesia Scanner which started as a website with generative visuals from Harm. These were programmed to live stream pictures uploaded in real time on Flickr and DeviantArt, algorithmically filtered to show Not Safe For Work images. The project expanded into a live premiere for Unsound, combining uneasy imagery with the dystopian music. With a background in Computer Science and Artificial intelligence Harm´s work investigates how algorithms can analyse digital archives and guide the artist in aesthetic decision making, leading to a symbiosis of man-machine art creation. He uses algorithms and data to explore how things online relate and mutate in what is called “unstable media; away from the rather rigid classical notion of the work of art as immutable entity compared to the fluidity of contemporary software production, continuously updated and improving. As a sort of a philosopher of the digital era, Harm’s systems (exhibited as computer animations on screens, and as printed framed wall pieces) try to expose more people to reflect on questions about meaning life online. How does the Internet influence culture and our daily lives offline? Language and cognition also play a central role in Harm’s art. The internet is primarily based on written language, and everything that you can find is done by using words. He also uses complex computing and biology concepts like DNA algorithms and inheritance and applies them in a virtual gallery setup where the artist and machine mould the aesthetic of the projects, like in his project Death Imitates Language, series of works exploring the development of meaning in generative aesthetics using micro feedback and a genetic algorithm, consisting of a website and a series of printed and boxed collage works. We also chat about the debate on the commercial aspects of the post-internet art business. In 2015, Harm became the first artist to sell an artwork authenticated through blockchain to a museum. The MAK (Austrian Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna purchased his Event Listeners, a screensaver created in a limited edition, using bitcoin. The museum saw the intervention as a new form of collecting in the digital age. For the artist blockchain presents a solution to the issues related to creating and dealing in digital and net art, which by its very nature can be easily copied and transferred. “Blockchain creates a fingerprint, something that identifies the owner. Through blockchain, you can see who owns it now, who owned it before and who created it.” Premonitory, he stated last year: “They say that 2016 is the year of blockchain and I do think we will see huge changes in the coming year”, and it certainly has been. This podcast was produced by CLOT Magazine editorial team and Stephen Mclaughlin for Unsound Festival in Collaboration with OFF Radio Krakow.

Bill Kouligas is the Berlin based Greek who runs the PAN label. It is a place where underground dance, conceptual art and experimental electronic music have been colliding in captivating ways since 2008. Although he himself releases infrequently (but keep your eyes peeled) the label has become a go to outlet for forward thinking sounds that range from jungle to dark ambient thanks to artists like Lee Gamble, African Sciences, Objekt and many more. The design of each release is done by Bill, who has a background in graphic design, and is what ties the whole ever evolving project together. Expect a podcast consisting of old and current favourites and of course a fair share of unreleased PAN material.

We talk shop with the experimental impresario behind PAN.

We talk shop with the experimental impresario behind PAN. For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=137

We talk shop with the experimental impresario behind PAN.