I only saw Pan Sonic once, around the turn of the millennium, and when I did, I zonked out. Not because it was boring—quite the contrary: the sub-bass frequencies the Finnish noise duo wrung out of ...

Pan Sonic has spent more than a decade reducing techno to its barest form, an austere landscape erupting with gut-rumbling beats and lacerating tones. On most of their early records Mika Vainio and ...