Panteros666 ‘X Lova’ (Cubic Zirconia remix)

Download it here: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?uw6516ec8r82l8r

“X LOVA” finds inspiration in a mixture of dreamy euro hardstyle, Chicago hard house backroom grooves, as well as the darkest of witch house. Pan flutes from the mysterious cities of gold and invocations of the Quetzalcoatl meet sweaty leathery hardcore rave and chopped up rap vocals, late at night during a ritual pagan ceremony in a forest somewhere in Wisconsin. Enigmatic New York post-everything group CUBIC ZIRCONIA deliver an amazingly swampy-yet-beautifully erotic remix. Tiombe Lockhart the group’s soulful vocalist whispers words of revenge over cold drum machines before producer Nick Hook screws the tempo down into a dark codeine dream.

C’est dans un mélange idéalisé de Hardstyle européen, de Chicago hard house de backroom et du plus sombre de la Witch house qu’ “X Lova” est né. Les flûtes de pan des Mystérieuses Cités d’Or et le réveil du Quetzalcoatl heurtent des vocaux rap découpés dans une rave hardcore tendance cuir dans une forêt quelque part dans le Wisconsin. L’énigmatique groupe “post-tout” new yorkais CUBIC ZIRCONIA nous fait l’honneur d’un remix aussi marécageux que terriblement érotique. La vocaliste Tiombe Lockhart murmure des promesses de revanche sur de froides percussions avant que leur producteur Nick Hook ralentisse le tempo jusqu’à atteindre le point d’équilibre codéique.

PANTEROS666 “Kegstand” EP introduction by Teki Latex

For a long time we have been asking ourselves the question: Is there such thing as a local underground dance music scene in France? Hip hop has been the soundtrack of French ghettos for as long as we can remember, but France never had its own version of Baile Funk, or Juke, or even Garage for that matter. French people have emulated worldwide ghetto dance music for years and it’s a great thing, but there never was a truly French-bred version of that, a music genre coming from the kids in the clubs, in the streets, with its own codes, its own dances, its own culture. Then came the Tecktonik craze and an army of often cheesy goth-guidos gave us a glimpse of what could have become an interesting answer to that question. But the big company co-opting and massive branding of the phenomenon quickly killed the buzz and turned it into a terrible gimmick for children. Meanwhile, our interest for the European ancestors of Tecktonik, namely the Benelux-born genres Hardstyle and Jumpstyle, kept growing. This was underground and hardly accessible music loved and made by lower class kids from the north of Europe, often remixing and playing with the codes of popular music, with their own clubs, and their own dances showcased on thousands of YouTube videos: the exact definition of a local ghetto dance scene.

 

Victor Watel a.k.a Panteros666 grew up in the cold and trashy North of France, where Hardstyle and Jumpstyle have been around for years due to the region’s proximity to Belgium. Fascinated by the dark side of new technologies and the new cyber white trash lifestyle generated by nerdy internet culture, Victor became a true multimedia man. Working in the realms of communication and advertising by day like some sort of animated gif era Don Draper, Victor is also active on French internet video platforms via his hilarious viral comedy skits under the moniker Kamel Toe. But Victor has also always been a musician. Initially a drummer for multiple indie groups, now playing with dance-punk act Sexual Earthquake in Kobe, he started producing electronic music a couple of years ago, taking up the name Panteros666. While exploring the tropical sounds of dancehall, African house and South American dance music under the influence of collaborators such as Douster, Canblaster and Myd, Panteros was looking for an extra ingredient to make his music really unique, original, and truly representative of his cultural background. That’s when he had the idea to inject a healthy dose of Gabber kicks, Jumpstyle grooves and hard ass synths in the mix. Hard dance had often been a taboo for so-called tasteful electronic music lovers, so merging this terribly cold, nordic, dark and unapologetically WHITE music with warm, tropical, ghetto and even mystical/spiritual Native American influences was a rather extreme experiment, almost a political statement. By doing so he not only created a never heard before alliance in dance music, but also maybe one of the first truly French answers to extreme American ghetto dance music genres such as Juke, Footwork or Ghettotech.

“Kegstand” is a hysterical piece of mutant military hallucinogenic turbo house. Skipping joyfully from Native American chants to Jumpstyle and back to tropical riddims, always falling back on its feet, “Kegstand” is the banger that djs who are sick of bangers are gonna want to play anyway. Awesome Texas wonder Dubbel Dutch’s remix takes it back to the time when Holland’s finest party djs would mix bubblin sped up dancehall rythms with gabber stabs, creating something a bit more familiar and housy but just as infectious.

“X Lova” finds inspiration in a mixture of dreamy euro hardstyle, Chicago hard house backroom grooves, as well as the darkest of witch house. Pan flutes from the mysterious cities of gold and invocations of the Quetzalcoatl meet sweaty leathery hardcore rave and chopped up rap vocals, late at night during a ritual pagan ceremony in a forest somewhere in Wisconsin. Enigmatic New York post-everything group Cubic Zirconia deliver an amazingly swampy-yet-beautifully erotic remix. Tiombe Lockhart the group’s soulful vocalist whispers words of revenge over cold drum machines before producer Nick Hook screws the tempo down into a dark codeine dream.

Panteros666 has a posse of producers called Club Cheval. You may have heard of the three other Club Cheval members, namely Myd, Sam Tiba and the hyper productive mad scientist of beats Canblaster, as they are currently causing a massive stir collectively and individually in the global underground. We had the idea to ask them to work on a track that would be the production equivalent of the great tradition of rap posse cuts where every rapper had 16 bars to prove how dope he is and showcase his style and what made him unique amongst the other rappers in his crew. On “Horreo”, Club Cheval applies this idea to production, and each member has a minute to deliver his version of a common musical theme (musically “dropping an ill verse”). The result gives us the same sensation as when we were listening to Flava in Ya Ear remix, or any Wu Tang, Death Row or Flipmode song back in the day, and we sincerely hope it will lead to playground discussions such as “damn son, Panteros killed that joint with the ill build-up and latin monologue before the drums accelerate” “naw u crazy, Sam Tiba had already nailed it with that crazy grimey bassline flow during his part” and so on.

PANTEROS666 “Kegstand” EP
available this Monday Dec 20th on Beatport
and January 17th on iTunes and other platforms 

The Sound Pellegrino Podcast - Episode 3

This is a big one! Orgasmic and Teki Latex have a special guest for a short and silly interview and a live mix: PANTEROS666 whose debut EP “Kegstand” drops this Monday December 20th on Beatport! 

This week’s exclusives include a Tony Senghore remix of Jean Nipon, a Canblaster remix of Johnny Moog, and a Lil Silva remix of Chaos in the CBD!

tracklistings:

SOUND PELLEGRINO THERMAL TEAM MIX:
CSLSX - “Paula Abdul drinking a Pepsi October 17th 1987
NocheXXX - “Timepiece” [Ramp recordings]
Myrryrs - “Feel U” (CD-R)
Johnny Moog “Dope Love” (Canblaster remix)
Bad Autopsy - “Ginmixer” [Ramp recordings]
Teeth “Aboriginal Stripper” [CD-R]
French Fries (and not Chaos in the CBD as announced) “Merel” (Lil Silva remix) [Youngunz]
Jean Nipon “Cairo” (Tony Senghore remix) [Institubes]

PANTEROS666 MIX:
Krywolf - “Everybody” (Kashii remix)
Hot City - “Another Girl”
Mike Hindle - “High Flying”
Talk - “Holy Mountain”
Prysmo - “Hot Sax” (unreleased Canblaster remix)
The Phantom - “Night Game”
Hidden Cat - “Get With It”
Panteros666 - “Kegstand”
Quatja S. - “Clap”
Supra One - “Still Believe” (The Phantom remix)
Myd - “Train To Bamako” (Canblaster remix)
dj Juanito - “I’ll be good”
Virgo - “Home Alone”
George Lenton - “Hollywood”
Panteros666 - “X Lova”

PANTEROS 666 “Kegstand / X Lova / Horreo” EP

ON BEATPORT DECEMBER 20TH!

PANTEROS666 INTERVIEW

Hopefully by now avid Sound Pellegrino fans know that our upcoming release on the label is PANTEROS666’s debut EP ‘Kegstand’.

Before we give a thorough preview (early next week), here’s a video interview with Panteros.

Some of the tracks from the video appear on the EP, some don’t, and some… well I don’t even know what they are.

No crabs have been hurt in the making of this video. 

Let’s get back to the raw

Hey everybody WE BACK! 

that’s right, it’s mid september and we’re slowly getting back to work after an intense summer of touring, partying, being hungover, more partying, and making sure “things” are getting “done” in order to bring you a fantastic new season of Sound Pellegrino action. 

As you can see in the picture accompanying this post we received a few cartons full of “Straight from the Spring” USB devices. Yes, the compilation that was showcased on this blog all summer long and that you can now actually BUY on iTunes US if you live in the US and you really insist on BUYING STUFF. 

However, if you live in France there’s a chance that we’ll give you one of those beautifully packaged Sound Pellegrino - branded USB devices…

…if you come down to the big Sound Pellegrino x Club Cheval party hosted by Institubes Saturday 18th of September at the beautiful Pigalle cabaret “Chez Moune” ! Check this:

Club Cheval is a crew formed by Myd, Sam Tiba, Canblaster and Panteros666. We’re very connected to them nowadays, for several reasons which i will now enumerate:

reason #1 : Myd and Sam tiba produced the track “Next Novel” on Straight from the Spring (check it out HERE).

reason #2 : Canblaster’s Dinosaurs with Guns remix (as showcased in the video) is dropping on my official DWG remix EP SEPTEMBER 28th on Sound Pellegrino, alongside beautiful remixes by Bobmo, Funkin Matt and competition winners TWR72. All the remixes are absolute bangers in their own right and i cannot wait for you to hear the diversity and dopeness showed on this release.

reason #3 : Panteros 666 is getting ready to release his Sound Pellegrino EP in the fall and the anticipation is building. There’s gonna be some serious surprises on this EP, stuff that has never been done before. In the meantime check out his new Terminator 2 Erotica mix for the cool as fuck (not only because it’s Australian) blog Buzzard Beats.

Coincidentally Panteros is also playing at Sound Pellegrino’s BIG AUTUMN PARTY at the Social Club Paris on October 22nd featuring none other than the Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team (Orgasmic & Teki Latex for those who aren’t following), the mighty Para One, and the HUGE, the AWESOME, the LEGENDARY Martin Brothers from Dirty Bird records San Francisco! The Martin Brothers who have been killing it lately with their mega hits Duckface, Steal drums and Justin Martin’s collaboration with Ardalan “Spock” which is absolutely destroying the Beatport charts right now. Needless to say we are psyched to have them on board for the first edition of (hopefully) many Sound Pellegrino parties at Social Club. 

So, yeah, we’ve been busy putting together the stuff that will make your life more beautiful in the forthcoming weeks so please excuse the short hiatus, we’re back and it feels like a Ma$e video.

Panteros666 “Plus Belle La Life” mix

Panteros (Club Cheval) “Plus Belle La Life” Mixx by Panteros666 (Club Cheval) on Mixcloud

Panteros666 is a member of the much talked about Club Cheval crew alongside Myd, Sam Tiba and Canblaster. He agreed to drop his first EP (including the track Kegstand, featured in the mix above) on Sound Pellegrino sometime this fall, and we’re very excited about it.

We love mixes that go in every direction while keeping a common thread and at the same time making you wonder “what kind of weird music is this?”. The exotic tribal garage / house sounds (with an eerie touch of digital-edge shamanism) meet the hard ass bounciness of gabber and hardstyle (maybe the closest thing to ghetto club music Northern Europe ever witnessed). Yes the alliance is counter-nature but the result sounds like a sonic megablast of terrifying awesomeness. Be scared, Panteros666 is coming.