Panurge Remix Contest

Winner

 

Prizes

Nettwerk CDs and merchandise.
Vegas software.
ACID PRO software.
Five Loops for ACID loop libraries.

About the Contest

ACIDplanet is offering "Mixed Cavalry" from Panurge for remixing.

Panurge is all about experimentation, about taking the familiar and putting a new twist on it. Which familiar elements will you recognize? And what will you do with them? Remix "Mixed Cavalry" and show the band your unique perspective on their musical elements.

About the Artist

Panurge was born of the musical experiments of Daniel Byrne, Chris Lovell, and Jon Schubert in the summer of 2000.

Schubert and Lovell met years earlier and had quickly discovered a common love of late-Sixties pop and folk music. While fast to become friends, the two did not begin working together musically until many years later. It was not until the late 1990's when Schubert and Lovell decided to start their musical friendship in earnest.

The pair met Byrne through mutual friends, and the three worked together in larger collaborations and varying formations until the spring of 2000, when it looked as if the trio were all about to head their separate ways. It was then that the three of them ended up working exclusively together on a song. Entitled "Listen to Your Own," the song would eventually prove the catalyst to the formation of Panurge. A focused fusion of pop songwriting and electronic production, "Listen to Your Own" quickly began to garner the band considerable praise and was included on a compilation which would later become the Nettwerk / Nutone release Critical Bandwidth.

The group's independently produced and released debut, Erectangle (2001), is a reflection of the band's geographical agreement at the time; written and recorded in pieces and across great distances, the album has a patch-work style that is well-suited to its genre-bending content.

In early 2003, the band, now with C.L. McLaughlin, signed with Nettwerk and began recording Throw Down the Reins (2004). The album captures the essence of experimentation found in their previous work, yet integrates this in subtler ways. Panurge utilizes a wide variety of instrumentation on the album, from analog synthesizers to wooden vibes, acoustic guitars and vintage drum machines. The resulting sound is new, yet familiar.

The band also uses different environments and techniques for recording; while most of Throw Down the Reins was recorded in a studio, parts were recorded in basements, faraway houses and nearby forests. To Panurge, the process of making music is inseparable from the results, and experimentation is an integral part of the songwriting process.

While the album is largely driven by this spirit of experimentation, the music strives to be very accessible. Regardless of how they are dressed, these are definitely pop songs — full of hooks and harmonies, big beats and jangling guitars. Throw Down the Reins balances the traditional and the experimental.

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