Artist: Panacea
Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
Temple Of Madness
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
My Sword
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Panacea's Mathias Mootz is one of the kickoff German drum'n'bass producers to make a significant prick among the fairly insular London jungle herd, creating a bridge of sorts 'tween the U.K. jungle scene and its Berlin-based antagonist in the "digital hardcore" of Alec Empire, Shizuo, Atari Teenage Riot, etc. Although Mootz's lick is reported to be just marginally recognized in his home res publica (and disdain heights praise by Empire), the brutalizing, overdriving, near industrial breakbeats and buzzing, hoover-esque basslines of tracks such as "Stormbringer" and "Torment" part much with Berlin hard-core artists. Mootz's virtually obvious influence is the number one he's minded to namecheck -- Ed Rush -- merely the appearance of unlikely samples (Autechre, My Bloody Valentine) and IDM-ish electro-breaks on his less rinsed tracks make him non intimately the 1 trick pony he at starting time appears. Hailing from the countryside town of Summerhausen, Mootz's musical roots lie in the early hardcore breakbeat of industrial dance artists such as Front 242, former Prodigy, and Nitzer Ebb. One of the beginning new artists to record for Force Inc.'s experimental beat medicine branch Chrome, Mootz released no less than ternion singles his number one triplet weeks out the logic gate, immediately capturing the attending of the ever-darkening drum'n'bass scene by taking the harsh, cold darkcore of Rush, Trace, Dom & Roland, and Elementz of Noise a step or 5 forward, fusing scores of shrewd, redlining breaks and squashy basso rolls (often iI or tierce at once) with dense, gaseous electronics, vocoder samples, and doom-bleating synths into a malicious, helter-skelter soup. Following "Stormbringer," "Tron," and "Clarence Shepard Day Jr. After," Chrome issued the LP Low profile Darkness, with the vinyl a sort of extended bivalent 12-inch and the CD adding tracks from the before twelves. Additionally, Mootz remixed a runway by related-labelmate Mike Ink (his Panacea runway the uneven man knocked out in a double-pack of minimal house and techno takes on Ink's "Respect"). Misrepresented Designz followed in 1998 with an American release to boot, piece Mootz as well issued an EP and uncut under his hardcore acidic false name, Bad Street Boy. The third Panacea LP, released in 1999, was a quislingism with Japanese vocaliser Hanayo. One year later, he released a volume in Caipirinha's Architettura series focussed on the metropolis of Brazilia. German language Engineering followed in early 2001.
