Panacea

Panacea (since 2005, The Panacea) is the stage name of Mathias Mootz (1976- ), a German musician who served an apprenticeship in classical music and belonged to the boy's choir of Windsbach. He studied music engineering at the SAE Institute and in tandem with this worked for the Chrome label, a subsidiary of Force Inc. Music Works, becoming their A&R manager when it was renamed Position Chrome. To date, he has released 11 albums, the most recent being in 2010, and a large collection of singles, all of which work within the drum and bass genre but include elements of industrial and hardcore (and including samples of Autechre and My Bloody Valentine, among others).

AllMusic notes that "although Mootz's work is reported to be only marginally accepted in his home country (and despite high praise by Empire), the brutalizing, overdriving, near industrial breakbeats and buzzing, hoover-esque basslines of tracks such as "Stormbringer" and "Torture" share much with Berlin hardcore artists." Matthias has worked with a variety of acts and under a panoply of pseudonyms. He is also noted for energetic live DJ sets, playing one such at Peel's 60th birthday party. Aside from this, he recorded one session for the programme in 1997 featuring on the fly remixes of some of his early material.

Festive Fifty Entries

 * None

Sessions

 * One session, recorded in his own studio.

1. Recorded: unknown. First broadcast: 17 April 1997. Repeated: 29 May 1997. Session featured on Peel Spring 1997
 * Vip Hetzjagd / Chrome 14-A Hybris / Chrome 14-B Hedonism

Live

 * 01 September 1999: Live DJ set from Peel's 60th birthday party

Other Shows Played

 * 05 May 1997: Untitled (12")' (Chrome) (recorded under his real name with Problem Child)
 * 23 December 1997: 'Stormbringer (CD-Low Profile Darkness)' (Position Chrome) (chosen by JP's son William)Panacea - King of the Jungle
 * 27 May 1998: 'Strike It (Compilation LP-Hellspawn (Extreme Metal Meets Extreme Techno)' (Earache) (vs. Dub War)
 * 23 December 1998: 'Decade Of Destruction (12")' (Position Chrome)
 * 28 July 1999: 'Robo-Turbo (2x12"-Beware The Future)' (Position Chrome)
 * 29 July 1999: 'Recreate Creation (2x12"-Beware The Future)' (Position Chrome)
 * 04 August 1999: 'Future Beware (2x12"-Beware The Future)' (Position Chrome)
 * 29 August 2000: 'Pitbull (2x12"-Redeemer)' (Position Chrome) (as Redeemer, with Scud)
 * 12 December 2000: 'Nightmare (CD-German Engineering)' (Position Chrome)
 * 11 January 2001: 'German Engineering (CD-German Engineering)' (Position Chrome)
 * 16 January 2001: 'Boo-Yaah (Unlock The Sound) (CD-German Engineering)' (Position Chrome)
 * 22 May 2001: 'King Of The Jungle (split CD with Cativo-The Hardest Tour On Planet Earth)' (Position Chrome)
 * 24 May 2001: 'King Of The Jungle (split CD with Cativo-The Hardest Tour On Planet Earth)' (Position Chrome)
 * 05 June 2001: 'Three Seconds Is Now (split CD with Cativo-The Hardest Tour On Planet Earth)' (Position Chrome) (remix of Cativo track)
 * 06 June 2001: 'King Of The Jungle (split CD with Cativo-The Hardest Tour On Planet Earth)' (Position Chrome)
 * 03 September 2002: 'King Of The Jungle (3x12"-Chartbreaka)' (Position Chrome)
 * Computer Music 1998 (Jan-Feb): 'Anti Funk (12"-Anti Funk / Antizocial)'
 * World Service 96-97: 'Day After'