Tassilo Ippenberger (Tas Toyo), born at lake Chiemsee in Bavaria, is a DJ, met Thomas Benedix, from Templin. Both new to Berlin, they sign up at SAE taking “electronic music producer” classes. They started out with their own series of parties, where at one night Marco Resmann a.k.a. DJ Phage plays his set. One afternoon all three of them meet in Marco Resmann’s Audio Gain Studio and the project Pan-Pot is born. Strongly influenced by the origins of house, minimal and harder, darker sides of techno. The Pan-Pot DJ Team with Tassilo and Thomas plays in clubs throughout Berlin. Owners of label Second State as well.