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17/10/2025

Cyprien Gaillard - Retinal Rivalry (PAN 157)

The soundtrack to Cyprien Gaillard’s latest stereoscopic motion picture, Retinal Rivalry (2024), is out now on a special art edition picture disc vinyl and digital.

Retinal Rivalry takes its name from a visual phenomenon that occurs when the brain receives two conflicting images simultaneously. Rather than merging into a single three-dimensional perception, the neural system alternates between prioritising one image and suppressing the other, generating a state of confusion and unease for the viewer.

Its images expand and contract rhythmically, manipulating scale, texture, and depth until familiar places appear uncanny. By exposing the distortions and limits of representation, Gaillard renders the everyday in heightened detail, destabilising habitual ways of seeing and offering a hyper-visionary version of reality. With a frame rate of 120 images per second and a projection speed five times faster than standard cinema, Gaillard captures what lies beyond the threshold of human perception.

The score mixes diverse sources: Indonesian instrumental music reworked, field recordings of heavy machinery, even retching that becomes oddly melodic. It quotes the opening of Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) with Popol Vuh’s overture. Image and sound often run out of sync and only once they come together: when a broken leg presses the pedal of an organ, trying to play Bach, but the piece keeps faltering.

This edition marks our 8th ENTOPIA publication, our offshoot series dedicated to expanding the function and form of the soundtrack. Rather than treating sound as a secondary supplement to image, the series frames it as a central, structuring element. Conceived as a framework for musical works emerging from the fields of visual art, performance, film and fashion, the series profiles world-conjuring musical works in-and-for-themselves.

16/10/2025

Cyprien Gaillard - Retinal Rivalry (PAN 157) LP/Digital, is out tomorrow!

Cyprien Gaillard’s latest stereoscopic motion picture Retinal Rivalry (2024), is at the centre of the new major exhibition titled ‘Wassermusik’ that is opening today at Haus der Kunst in Münich.

October 17, 2025 - March 8, 2026

By harnessing cutting-edge technology, Gaillard offers an ex­panded, sharpened vision of the world around us. This key work leads viewers on a journey through folded time and inaccessible urban surfaces: dumpsters and subterranean arteries, humid landscape, and views through the eyes of the Bavaria statue at Oktoberfest. It thus enters into a close dialogue with the city of Munich and its folk festival, having it linger on as if in a strange memory, disrupting conventional perception with a sculptural and psychedelic space, and dis­sol­ving the narrative to reveal pure vision. Curated by Xue Tan with Lydia Antoniou and Laila Wu.

On the occasion of Cyprien Gaillard’s exhibition at Haus der Kunst in Munich, the artist also collaborated with on a ‘Retinal Rivalry’ capsule collection which will be available together with the PAN vinyl editions at Buchhandlung Walther König.

07/10/2025

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03/10/2025

MERZBOW, IGGOR CAVALERA, and ERALDO BERNOCCHI are releasing their first collaborative album, “Nocturnal Rainforest,” out via PAN now!



‘Nocturnal Rainforest’ is a product of each artist’s ongoing musical evolution, powered by extreme music but tempered by deep listening techniques that expect presence rather than dissociation. On ‘Swietnenia Macrophylla’, evocative humid soundscapes provide a precarious sense of security at first, blurred at the edges by purring oscillations that mimic the jungle’s fauna. And that peace is quickly ruptured by percussive, foghorn-like distortions that mark out the scale of the trio’s vision. Not just raw noise, the rougher elements are cut with subtle waves of billowing ambience and muggy low-end drones before the track launches into a symphony of computerized stutters. There’s a constant push and pull between organic and artificial sounds - before there’s been time to acclimatize to the DAW-corrupted noise, collaged tape saturations and slashed amplifier hum muddies the atmosphere, purposefully confusing the senses and obfuscating the sources.

And the thought is continued on ‘Ceiba Pentandra’ when the trio follow the jungle’s teeming sonics with growling, whirring electronics and dense interference. What starts as birdsong and an choir of insects mutates into a wall of deafening, transcendent full-spectrum texture that cracks open like a slow-moving storm over a shadowy wilderness.

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24/09/2025

MERZBOW, IGGOR CAVALERA, and ERALDO BERNOCCHI are announcing their first collaborative album, “Nocturnal Rainforest,” out via PAN on October 3rd.

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Vinyl / Digital is available for pre-order now.
https://p-a-n.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnal-rainforest

The first collaboration between Japanese noise titan Masami Akita, aka Merzbow, iconic Brazilian drummer and producer Iggor Cavalera and forward-thinking Italian guitarist and sound designer Eraldo Bernocchi, ‘Nocturnal Rainforest’ terraforms a sonic landscape that’s almost overpoweringly dense and disorienting, but never aggressive or chaotic. It’s a fully immersive experience that re-contextualizes the trio’s years of work in extreme experimental music by concentrating on texture, atmosphere and sensory overload. The noise itself is used to provoke a refined level of focus; ‘Nocturnal Rainforest’ is mediative in its own way, enveloping listeners with waves of distortion, phantasmic unmetered rhythms and perplexing processed field recordings, but it’s not intended for passive listening. Made using a fusion of bespoke techniques the trio have been developing for decades, it exists in a raw and mystifying liminal zone between the organic realm and the digital world - a place that’s too hauntingly familiar to be ignored.

‘Nocturnal Rainforest’ is a product of each artist’s ongoing musical evolution, powered by extreme music but tempered by deep listening techniques that expect presence rather than dissociation.

21/09/2025

Recensione del disco "EXINFINITE" (PAN, 2025) dei Venera. A cura di Fabio-Marco Ferragatta.

27/08/2025

Berlin Atonal festival makes its highly anticipated return to Kraftwerk Berlin from today, August 27th until the 31st, presenting a five-day programme of new commissions, premieres, installations, and club nights.

PAN artists Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet, Heith, Billy Bultheel, STILL, and the trio of legendary musicians Merzbow / Iggor Cavalera / Eraldo Bernocchi (who have an upcoming album on PAN this month) will be playing live at festival. The concert program also includes artist friends Rashad Becker, Ziúr, Chuquimamani-Condori, Oren Ambarchi, and Mark Fell, all who have previously released with the label.

A newly developed sound sculpture installation by Bill Kouligas & Niklas Bildstein Zaar is going to be presented throughout all days of the festival as well.

Berlin Atonal has also invited PAN to present a Listening Room in the Kraftwerk control room with selections from ENTOPIA, their offshoot series dedicated to expanding the function and form of the soundtrack. Each evening is dedicated to a different piece by artists Anne Imhof, Jeremy Shaw, Jenna Sutela, Cyprien Gaillard, Mohamed Bourouissa.

Limited vinyl releases and as well as merchandise will be available for purchase.

01/08/2025

HEITH ࣪𓂃. .. Vinyl editions out now!

Escape Lounge LP
X, wheel / The Liars Tell... (+ unreleased bonus material) 2xLP

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12/07/2025

Out September 12th, Exinfinite also includes contributions from FKA twigs, Dis Fig and Chelsea Wolfe.

27/06/2025

Le Diouck ‘Grace Joke’ new album is out now!

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Le Diouck is a multidisciplinary Franco-Senegalese artist whose debut album “Grace Joke” was released on June 27, 2025, featuring collaborations with Bonnie Banane, Lala &ce, La Zowi, and Yves Tumor.

Born Magueye Diouck, the 30-year-old artist draws from his Senegalese roots and Parisian life to create work spanning music, illustration, and performance. Originally trained as an illustrator working on graphic novels, he transitioned into music and performs in Wolof, French, and English. He has also walked for Comme des Garçons and starred in Gucci campaigns.

His work exists “at the intersection of folktale, speculative fiction, and diasporic memory,” constructing worlds where mythology and identity intertwine. His “Fatéouma” performance at the Bourse de Commerce tells a medieval fantasy fable about Grace, a cyborg searching for memories, and Joke, a broken circus clown.

Joining labels PAN and &ce Reckless in 2021, Le Diouck collaborates across the French underground scene with producers like Modulaw, Low Jack, and Lewis Ofman. He represents a new generation of Franco-African artists blending cultural heritage with contemporary expression, using his platform to promote understanding that “embracing your ancestors’ culture shouldn’t be seen as a threat but a virtue.”

04/05/2025

Lucy Railton ＆ PAINJERK live in Tokyo - May 5th.
A night in memory of electronic music pioneer Peter Zinovieff.

【緊急開催】2025.05.05 19:00

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Lucy Railton (ルーシー・レイルトン)とPAINJERKが、シンセサイザーとコンピューターのパイオニアであり、発明家であり、エレクトロニック・ミュージックの流れを変えたエレクトロニック・コンポーザーである故・Peter Zinovieff (ピーター・ジノヴィエフ)へのトリビュートとして、東京の落合soupでライブを開催。ピーター・ジノヴィエフが2021年に亡くなって以来、初の追悼公演となる。
2014年からジノヴィエフとコラボレートしてきたルーシー・レイルトンは、2018年にBill Kouligas (ビル・クーリガス）によってPANレーベルからリリースされた2人の共同アルバム『RFG Inventions for Cello and Computer』を再び祝うため、Festival Of Modular 2015のエディションでピーター・ジノヴィエフを東京に招いたPAINJERKはジノヴィエフ自身のEMSロンドン・スタジオで開発されたジノヴィエフの象徴的なシンセサイザーのひとつEMS SYNTHIで演奏、COMPUMAはEMSの音源含む初期電子音楽を織り交ぜた特別なセットで臨む。