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Mika Vainio, Founder Of Pan Sonic And Electronic Auteur, Dies At 53

The Finnish electronic music experimentalist was widely influential for his patient explorations of aggression and shadow.
Pan Sonic (Mika Vainio, left and Ilpo Vaisanen) performing in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on May 12, 2000. Vainio died aged 51 on April 13, 2017.

Mika Vainio, a pioneer in the world of avant-garde electronic music and founding member of Finnish duo Pan Sonic, has died at. No cause of death was given.

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