Victor Watel a.k.a Panteros666 grew up in the cold and trashy North of France just like his Club Cheval brothers. He started doing music as a teenage drummer, played in various dance-punk outfits in the late 00s and soon developed a personal, enhanced sound environment. He’s also been continuously fed by many other kinds of digital commodities: YouTube vids, gifs and jpgs found through extended scrolling sessions on self-generated pics websites. He eventually got rid of his drum set, and started his techno crusade in 2011.
His first EP ‘Kegstand’ released by Sound Pellegrino was a true mutation in effect – sounds taken from the Dutch jumpstyle songbook locked inside a funky techno frame. The main intention is basically to produce tracks that can both entertain your mind and talk to your body, to make dancefloor ammunition with a twisted Meta angle, working like comments on what’s generally thought about club music. His material sounds physical and nervous, but also offers much to (joyfully) think about. Then followed the Javelin EP released on Belgian label Forma.T, his contribution to Benelux born warehouse techno.
Also working in the realms of TV communication and advertising by day like some sort of animated gif era Don Draper, Panteros has directed all his movies and offered his extended video imagination to other artists: Para One – You, The Aikiu – Pieces of Gold (with its million views) or being a DJ explorer for Vice Magazine’s Guide to Festivals. He teamed up with The Creators Project to develop the interactive engineering behind his live show.
His first mini LP ‘Hyper Reality’ + Live show, to be released on Brodinski’s label