Balázs Pándi

Balázs Pándi
Balázs Pándi
	Merzbow & Pándi Balázs performing together on April 13, 2011 at the OCCII in Amsterdam.
Background information
Birth name	Pándi Balázs
Also known as	666 Cent, Mustache
Born	August 6, 1983 (age 41)
Origin	Budapest, Hungary
Genres	Grindcore; free improvisation; free jazz; heavy metal; noise; breakcore; IDM; drum and bass; experimental rock; noise rock; harsh noise; concrete; absolute; dark ambient; jazz fusion; trip hop; avant-garde; electronic; math rock; punk jazz; experimental;
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instrument(s)	Drums, accordion
Labels	Ad Noiseam; Ohm Resistance;
Website	Facebook

Balázs Pándi (born 6 August 1983) is a Hungarian drummer and journalist. He has worked and toured with various acts from all around the world including Venetian Snares, Otto von Schirach, To Live and Shave in L.A., The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and Zu. He also played drums for the Blood of Heroes project.

Since 2009 he has frequently played drums live with Merzbow,^[1] and they have released three live records together. They headlined the experimental stage at the Scion Rock Fest in Tampa, Florida in 2012. More recently, he and Merzbow have performed as a trio with Mats Gustafsson. They released Cuts in 2013 on RareNoise. For the follow-up Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper (2015), they were joined by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.

Balázs started an electronica-metal-breakcore project with Bong-Ra called Wormskull in 2010 (their first album "Sound of Hell" was released in 2011). Most recently he joined the Italian experimental instrumental band Zu. His current projects include Italian doom band Obake, Metallic Taste of Blood (featuring Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree, Eraldo Bernocchi of Obake and Jamie Saft), and Slobber Pup (Saft, Joe Morris and Trevor Dunn). From 2012 he started to play solo shows on selected festivals under his own name.

From 2013, he worked as a journalist at Hungarian news site Index.^[2]^[3] After the resignation of the majority of the staff in July 2020, he moved to Telex.

Discography

With Marshall Allen, Danny Ray Thompson, Jamie Saft, Trevor Dunn and Roswell Rudd

2019 – Ceremonial Healing (RareNoise)

With Marco Eneidi

2012 – A Hint Traumatized (Karl Schmidt Verlag)

With KK Null

2017 – Demon Core (Ohm Resistance)
2019 – Demoncore 1 (Brain Ticket Death)

With Jason Köhnen

2017 – Darkness Comes in Two's (Svart Lava)

With Merzbow

2010 – Live at Fluc Wanne, Vienna, 2010/05/18 (Dry Lungs)
2011 – Ducks: Live in NYC (Ohm Resistance)
2012 – Katowice (Instant Classic)
2016 – Live at FAC251 (Cold Spring)

With Merzbow and Keiji Haino

2016 – An Untroublesome Defencelessness (RareNoise)
2019 – Become the Discovered, Not the Discoverer (RareNoise)

With Merzbow and Mats Gustafsson

2013 – Cuts (RareNoise)
2015 – Live in Tabačka 13/04/12 (Tabačka)

With Merzbow, Mats Gustafsson, and Thurston Moore

2015 – Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper (RareNoise)

With Metallic Taste of Blood

2012 – Metallic Taste of Blood (RareNoise)

With Obake

2011 – Obake (RareNoise)
2014 – Mutations (RareNoise)

With Ivo Perelman and Joe Morris

2013 – One (RareNoise)

With Lee Ranaldo, Jim Jarmusch, Marc Urselli

2019 – Lee Ranaldo / Jim Jarmusch / Marc Urselli / Balazs Pandi (Trost)
2021 – Churning of the Ocean (Trost)

With Slobber Pup

2013 – Black Aces (RareNoise)
2015 – Pole Axe (RareNoise)

With Wadada Leo Smith, Jamie Saft, and Joe Morris

2014 – Red Hill (RareNoise)

With Rope Cosmetology

2009 – Diffusion de la rue de la Double Identité (Karl Schmidt Verlag)
2009 – Spezial: Gedankengefüge (Compound Thought) (Karl Schmidt Verlag)
2009 – Discoteca Festival (Karl Schmidt Verlag)
2011 — The Honey Fox in Hare's Longing (Karl Schmidt Verlag)
2012 — Disunion Strips (Karl Schmidt Verlag)

With Roswell Rudd, Jamie Saft, and Trevor Dunn

2016 – Strength & Power (RareNoise)

With Mikołaj Trzaska and Rafal Mazur

2014 – Tar & Feathers (Gusstaff)

With Jon Wesseltoft

2018 – Infinite Vice (The Tapeworm)
2019 – Terreng (Moving Furniture)

With Wormskull

2011 – Sound of Hell (Ad Noiseam)

Other appearances

Year	Artist	Title	Label
2007	Venetian Snares	Pink + Green	Planet Mu
2008	Last Step	1961	Planet Mu
2010	The Blood of Heroes	The Blood of Heroes	Ohm Resistance
2011	Submerged	Before Fire I Was Against Other People	Ohm Resistance
2011	Enduser	Even Weight	Ad Noiseam
2011	Imaginary Forces	Uppstigande	Ad Noiseam
2012	The Blood of Heroes	The Waking Nightmare	Ohm Resistance
2012	Loops Haunt	Zenith	Black Acre
2013	To Live and Shave in L.A.	The Grief That Shrieked to Multiply	Monotype
2013	Highness	Hold	Magic Bullet
2013	Les Rhinocéros	Les Rhinocéros II	Tzadik
2014	Loops Haunt	Exits	Black Acre

References

^ Ratliff, Ben (September 27, 2010). "A Fusillade of Sound Made for One Noisy Night in Greenwich Village". The New York Times. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
^ Karpati, Laszlo. "Kreatív Online - Az Index bármit megírhat". Kreatív Online (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2021-07-17.
^ Captain, A38 (2013-10-10). "Pándi Balázs | Ha a megfelelő emberek egymásra találnak, a zene megírja magát". Az A38 Hajó blogja (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2021-07-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

External links

Balázs Pándi at Facebook
Balázs Pándi discography at Discogs
Balázs Pándi discography at MusicBrainz
Merzbow Gustafsson Pandi at RareNoise
Interview at ThisIsNotAScene
Interview at The Horrible And The Miserable
Interview at Asymetry festival

[1] Ratliff, Ben (September 27, 2010). "A Fusillade of Sound Made for One Noisy Night in Greenwich Village". The New York Times. Retrieved July 24, 2015.

[2] Karpati, Laszlo. "Kreatív Online - Az Index bármit megírhat". Kreatív Online (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2021-07-17.

[3] Captain, A38 (2013-10-10). "Pándi Balázs | Ha a megfelelő emberek egymásra találnak, a zene megírja magát". Az A38 Hajó blogja (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2021-07-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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