Retro video game nerds, don't get too excited. Friday's guest act at the Vagabond has nothing to do with the mostly forgotten Nineties Nintendo game, but rather has appropriated the moniker, a la Crystal Castles, to broadcast a fascination with retro bleeps and bloops. The multicolor, 8-bit style graphics festooning Panic Bomber's various web presences should give you a clue as to where the project's influences lie: in the golden era of electro, acid funk, and anything that involved a vocoder. W
Happy New Year, ya'll! It's 2009 and with the economy going south, everyone seems to be looking for answers at the bottom of a bottle -- and that means more parties! And January is already gearing up to be spectacular. But let us not get ahead of ourselves, because here is what you definitely want to check out this weekend:Reading Panic Bomber's treatise on why he does what he does, one could easily suspect that Richard Haig is bitter that live music doesn't get as much respect as DJs do in Miam
via www.myspace.com/panicbomberLike a one-man Gravitron, Panic Bomber pulls you in, spins you around, and leaves you dizzy and smiling. He looks like a neon stick figure in motion, and sounds like a male Sade stuck in a rave. These are all good things. I had never heard of him, and then, on a recent night, I saw him. The perfomer known as Panic Bomber has no face, and boasts an unconventional fashion sense: black from forehead to toe, with what appears to be a pulsating neon bomb strapped to his
Best New Electronica ArtistPanic Bomber panicbomber.comPlaying live around town for less than a year, the shadowy character known as Panic Bomber has already developed some minor lore. Legend has it that once upon a time, Richard Haig was a local rock musician who got fed up with the grind of being hustled offstage in time for the night's main event -- a DJ. So he turned to dance music himself, supposedly in an act of defiance that's explained, sort of, in a treatise on his website. Whatever
Awesome New RepublicI just saw this on the Off the Radar blog. Richard Haig aka Panic Bomber gets down with MJ and B-Robb of Awesome New Republic on a collabo remix. This is like a Miami New Times Best of 2009 love fest for dance fans. It's FreeFreeFree.com. Follow the link below [via Off the Radar!] for the download.MP3: Awesome New Republic - "Birthday (Panic Bomber's Love Me Rough Mix)"
