Pan-Pot

Pan-Pot formed in Berlin after Tassilo Ippenberger and Thomas Benedix met while studying audio engineering. Their early records came out on BPitch Control, the label run by Ellen Allien, which also released their debut album Pan-o-rama in 2007. In those years the pair worked closer to minimal and tech house, with clipped percussion and playful, rubbery basslines.

Over time the sound moved toward heavier, darker techno built for big rooms, though the duo kept a taste for melodic lines running underneath the kick. Second State, the label they founded, gives them an outlet for their own productions and for other artists working in the same harder, melodic vein, and the label name also carries their podcast series.