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Release Date Friday 12th July 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day
Though 潘PAN is an entirely new artist - new outlook, new message, new material and name - you may have met the woman herself
before. Back in the mid-‘10s, the Taipei-born rapper went by the moniker Aristophanes. After performing a career-changing feature on
‘SCREAM’, taken from Grimes’ celebrated NME Album of 2015 ‘Art Angels’, Aristophanes went on to build a cult fanbase, releasing her
debut mixtape ‘Humans Become Machines’ two years later and then her distributor went bust during covid. Signed to Transgressive she re-
released her mixtape followed by Reborn and Ghosts EPs earlier this year.
Across a constantly morphing sound palette that moves from metallic, apocalyptic beats to delicate nods to the traditional music of her
Asian heritage, via heavy, industrial moments, spacious soundscapes and much more, the thread is Pan’s utterly mesmeric vocal.
Performing in a mix of Mandarin and English, she explains that having the two languages to play with is “like featuring another artist who
has a different way of describing things”.
Across the releases, confident sexual expression mixes with tenderness, empathy and a particularly feminine sort of strength to create a
world that Pan hopes will transcend language and connect her audience via something more innate. “The music is a place to feel safe,” she
says. “The message that I want to carry through these two EPs and the album is to demonstrate the strength of accepting your own
situations. When you can’t make things right but you’ve done your best, sometimes it’s really hard to admit that to yourself. It takes
strength to do that. I use lots of sexual metaphors, but I feel like it’s more about the female need to be seen and heard. I want to build
something more delicate and layered and connected to our life experience - to the trauma and the pleasure and the growth.”
In the time since she last stepped into the spotlight, the musician has experienced her fair share of all these things. Now, it’s as an entirely
evolved artist that she returns with a new collection of music that revels in it all: the trauma, the pleasure, the growth and the long-
awaited rebirth of 潘PAN.
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