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Artist, Submitted by ozore on Thu, 04/19/2007 - 08:14.
Mem Pamal is releasing a double CD on ELF: one half is a live set recorded at Paris’Batofar, the other, his first studio album. A perfect introduction to Mem Pamal’s digital universe of uncompromising beats and psychedelic layers.
Mem Pamal started as a DJ in a techno bar in eastern France where collective Acid Blaze was promoting parties in the mid-nineties, with the likes of Miss Kittin, Miloch, Stephanovich guesting.
Enrolled in an electroc-acoustic course, he started to experiment with techno sounds on the school’s Oderheim X-Pander and Yamaha DX7, while hanging around the squat and free-party scene across France and attending Spiral Tribe, Fractal, Furious and Teknocrate teknivals.
“There’s nothing more exciting than a sound system set up in the middle of a forest. It’s more than music! It’s about some kind of telepathic connection between man, sound and nature. You don’t have to be a musician to make music, and you can’t reduce music to notes or chords: birds, the wind, they all make music.
With digital technology I can be part of that and play whatever I like. I don’t care whether this is ‘music’ or not”.
Mem Pamal performed his first live sets in 1999 mixing at Alternative System’s messy rock techno parties, then alongside Choose, Tevatron, Freon, Somatik Responses. Founding Fantomatik Records the same year, he started putting out releases by Mars Assault, U 238, then series of live sets by an eclectic bunch of artists, bringing hip hop, indus, rock, ambient, electro under a same roof.
Touring France and Europe non-stop with his own intoxicating, melodic, psychedelic blend of techno, drum’n bass and transkore, he’s performed at more parties than can be listed here. Manu Le Malin, Miss Ficel, Suburbass, Mental Resistance are just a few of the acts he’s shared the line-up with.
2002 was another busy year with the release of Fantomatik 03, Mogz 03, Acid Test 02, and live performances in Belgium, Italy, Spain and the Tchek Republic.
Mem Pamal’s sound has evolved throughout the years, transformed by an increasing use of analog synthetizers. In search of an hyptnotic sound that verges on psychedelism, the artist is floating somewhere between hardtek, transcore and drum n’bass.
While his uncompromising beats seem to take listeners and dancefloors into one direction, they suddenly get lost into a layered, psychedelic soundscape.
Mem Pamal’s fist album is the work of an atypical artist that invites you to a journey inwards. Enjoy... |
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