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Blending '60s pop references with electronic genre features, funk-style inspirations, and other groovy soundings, Panurge emerged in the Vancouver club scene in 2000. Embodying the Canadian trio were Christopher Lovell (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Fantom (bass, vocals, keyboards), and DJ Si Unyil(turntables, programming), all of them having considerable previous musical experience. The trio's sharp electronic sound, supported by keen pop lineaments led them to rapidly create an ever-growing fan base, not only locally but also on the Internet, therefore managing to deliver their sound across a multitude of worldwide locations. Following a short period practicing their original tones, the trio decided to release its first record. Erectangle, their debut and independently released album, hit record stores in 2001, a few months before the issuing of the trio's second full-length, Pythagorhythms.
Wikipedia:
Panurge (from Greek Πανοῦργος / Panoûrgos meaning "He who makes everything") is one of the principal characters in the Pantagruel (especially the third and fourth books) of Rabelais, an exceedingly crafty knave, a libertine, and a coward.
In Chapter 9 of the first book he shows he can speak many languages (German, Italian, Scottish, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, Hebrew, Greek, Latin and French), including some of the first examples of a constructed language.
In French, reference to Panurge occurs in the phrase mouton de Panurge, which describes an individual that will blindly follow others regardless of the consequences. This, after a story in which Panurge buys a sheep from the merchant Dindenault and then, as a revenge for being overcharged, throws the sheep into the sea. The rest of the sheep in the herd follow the first over the side of the boat, in spite of the best efforts of the shepherd.
"Suddenly, I do not know how, it happened, I did not have time to think, Panurge, without another word, threw his sheep, crying and bleating, into the sea. All the other sheep, crying and bleating in the same intonation, started to throw themselves in the sea after it, all in a line. The herd was such that once one jumped, so jumped its companions. It was not possible to stop them, as you know, with sheep, it's natural to always follow the first one, wherever it may go." --Francois Rabelais, Quart Livre, chapter VIII
