It's 1998, and a group of scruffy weekend ravers have managed to blag their way onto the top floor of a multi-sound-system New Year's Eve party in a derelict office building somewhere in the Isle of Dogs. Now, the rig has been gently taken over by a firm but friendly collective called Virus. The party is mad, and the crowd loves it as much as they do. This could be the start of something...
Now it's Tuesday and the police are outside putting on their riot hats. They just want to go home, but their decks are still plugged in. What can they do?
It's okay, boys and girls—whatever you do, Don't Panik!
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The Panik Sound System Story - AKA Crazy Dave's Dream.
Dave was and is a dreamer. Tekno Chris first got talking to Dave in the café because of the '23' shaved into the back of his head, he had figured that he went to free parties or he was dead keen on American Basketball, the latter of course was untrue. Dave's system at this stage had the same power and was about the same size of a bottom of the range Aiwa stereo (you know the ones you get from Argos). Tekno Chris deflated Dave's dreams one day by telling him bluntly, "There's no fuckin' way you can take that to a party". So unfazed Crazy Dave kept building.
Noah built the Ark.
Dave hand built all of the speaker housings with his own fair hands and placed in these boxes low cost drivers and powered it with a couple of low cost amps. This would turn out to be his down fall. The first few parties went fine but the real test came during the eclipse of the sun in Cornwall, England. What followed was five days of virtually non-stop mayhem, by the final day the rig, it's amps and it's lights were fucked. The rig would never be the same again.
Spread the Panik.
After some frantic phone calls, forwarded e-mails and a few meetings Panik began to take shape. Deals were struck and scams scammed, money donated and information shared. The system was rebuilt with new more powerful drivers, bigger more powerful amps were purchased and kit donated.
Electric music for positive people.
The system has an open deck policy and is totally open to DJ experimentation. We believe this is the only way to run a sound system because the crowd get to hear a diverse and underground selection, the crew who are DJ's, musicians, artists, technicians and performers try to get the parties running smoothly and the music loud and inspirational.
