Ilpo Väisänen

Ilpo Väisänen is a Finnish electronic musician, born in Kuopio in 1963. He studied art in Turku, and in 1993 he founded the duo Panasonic with Mika Vainio, later renamed Pan Sonic, whose first EP appeared on Sähkö Recordings in 1994. Since the duo was put on hold after the album Gravitoni in 2010, he has worked solo and in collaborations, often under aliases such as I-LP-O In Dub. With Vainio, Väisänen recorded Endless (1998) with Alan Vega of Suicide and Nine Suggestions (2005) with John Duncan. He also formed the duo Angel (later Die Angel) with Dirk Dresselhaus of Schneider TM.