Charly - Pan-Pot

Charly

Pan-Pot [Mobilee]

#10 in this month's The 20

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‘Charly’ is the first glimpse of the full-length album of Pan-Pot’s first album release on Anja Schneider’s Mobilee records this month.

The Berlin party-edged duo have previously cut their teeth on various twelves and remixes.

‘Charly’ has the afterhours affect of seeing a faint glint of sunlight peek through the cracks of the door of the club — but it’s nothing that would stop the party.

‘Charly’ is open-ended, quite easily leaving room for segues into a harder- or funkier-edged set.

“As our experience playing for large crowds has been growing, we decided to produce more techy and straighter tracks, like ‘Charly’”, according to Pan-Pot.

“But in the end, our inspiration is and was always spontaneous during the process of producing.”

And while that discombobulated term minimal may be used to describe their music, it’s not a term they identify with on a large scale.

“For us, minimal is the ‘real’ minimal movement with artists like [Detroit’s] Robert Hood and [Windsor/Berlin’s] Plastikman [AKA Richie Hawtin].

“Hawtin reinvented the term few years ago, but we don’t think that our productions are fitting of the description; it’s more a mixture of techno and house, filled up with a lot of effects work.”

And perhaps hitting the nail on the head best of all, Pan-Pot add, “In the end, it’s all house or techno in an advanced form.”

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