Wild City #044 - Alien Panda Jury

We just can't stop ourselves. We're slipping deeper and deeper into the Pakistani underground and are only emerging with raw, sharp and just brilliant electronica. Alongside our compadres Border Movement, we've talked enough about the growing scene across the border, with the likes of Forever South. One of the artists on their roster is Daniel Arthur Panjwaneey a.k.a Alien Panda Jury (more on him here). An active musician within Karachi's booming underground music scene for over 12 years (primarily as a bassist for indie outfit //orangenoise), Alien Panda Jury is essentially an experimental electronic solo project by the seasoned musician. "Being a musician and songwriter there's times where you feel an urge to get your individuality out onto something. To me throwing on a housey beat with ambient pads, eastern classical vocals and percussions sampled and manipulated with a grinding bassline mashed up with occasional over-saturated acoustic guitars... is normal. It's also just so much fun to be able to throw everything in and go nuts to a point where it all makes sense in a way." - Alien Panda Jury Influenced by classic psychedelia, industrial, electronic and eastern/regional sounds, his music is an infectious mix of melodies and a unique beat-programming style. It only took us one listen and we just knew, we had to source a mix. And boy, did he deliver. Running through 17 carefully selected tracks over 1 hour it successfully exhibits his varied (yet very UK) taste in music. Opening with the 2562's raw 'Flavour Park Jam' it gently moves into more trip-hoppy territory before settling with the likes of Warp's Bibio and Ninjatune's Yppah before picking up again. As an added bonus it runs through 6 of his own productions, alongside some from fellow Karachi based producers Dynoman, Toll Cane and 6LA8. He even sneaks a bit of Clark and Burial in there. Can we blame him? For a tracklist and further info, head over here: http://www.thewildcity.com/EN/music.xhtml/article/3114-wild-city-044-alien-panda-jury