Oskar Gabriel Steinbeck, known by his stage name Panda Eyes (or Lil Panda X) is a Swiss composer, record producer and DJ from Zurich, Switzerland.

Career

Steinbeck started in 2013 bringing together elements of chiptune,

dubstep Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken be ...

and other genres of bass music to form his own style of glitch-hop. Recording multiple singles, he gained recognition by releasing them on

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and

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. In early 2015 he released the song "Superheroes" with German producer

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. Later that year, he worked with Brighton-based producer Teminite on their collaboration "Highscore". The song was released in the same year by Panda Eyes and Teminite, and has surpassed 62 million on streams on

alone. His song "Colorblind" has surpassed 45 million views on

. Ultimately he released a selection of his best recordings on iTunes and

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without a label in October 2015. In 2016, Steinbeck gave his first interview to UKF.com naming

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and

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as triggers that switched him to Dubstep and the French-Duo

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as his main inspiration to go for

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. Announcing the release of "Nostalgia 64" he said "...it's the first tune when I’ve had an idea when I'm out with friends having a beer and I’ve actually recorded it down on my phone. It's the first tune I’ve made from a memo. I felt stupid doing it but I thought ‘f**k it’ and sang it in my phone." In 2017, he released a remix of the 2012

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song "Days To Come" with approval from

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founded

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to release the tune for free, saying, "You know when you have these melodies in your head and you know you know it, and you know you once knew what the name of it was but you've forgotten it? Well I had that with this. I woke up from a dream and had it in my head. I was like shit! I know this! What is it? After 10 minutes of intensely interrogating my brain I remembered it was Seven Lions." In April he posted a video on

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, announcing that he was working on a new album. Steinbeck was diagnosed with autoimmune disease while producing his album ''Continue''. On May 28, 2018, Steinbeck officially signed to Disciple Records. "Disciple was definitely my first choice for a label since they seemed to care a lot about values of being a family and supporting each other and having fun while doing that." he said. "I'm very happy about the situation since a lot of the artists on Disciple are people I look up to and I adore them so it's such a pleasure to work with them." To celebrate his arrival, he also released his EP "Isolation." Steinbeck described his EP as the story of his trip to

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. He wrote the first two songs to be more introspective, which set the overall message for the EP. Steinbeck said "he's here and alive", and that he will never stop pursuing his dreams and inspirations. "The second two tracks are more uplifting melodically and particularly the collaboration with

and Barely Alive felt like the first step in pursuing a new journey and getting out of Isolation in Switzerland." At the end of December 2018, Steinbeck announced his decision to leave Disciple Records to continue his independent career.

Discography

Albums / LPs

*''Continue'' (2017) *''Journey, Pt. 2'' (2021)

EPs

*''Buckle'' (2013) *''Harmonic War'' (2015) *''Take My Hand (Remixes)'' (2017) *''Isolation'' (2018) *''Isolation - The Remixes'' (2018) *''Let's Fly (w/ Nasko)'' (2018) *''Society'' (2019) *''Journey, Pt. 1'' (2019) *''Demons, Pt. 1'' (2020) *''Episode 1 (Lil Panda X)'' (2021)

Compilations

*''Originals'' (2014) *''Kiko'' (2015) *''Nostalgia 64'' (2016) *''The Lost Levels'' (2018) *''The Lost Levels, Pt. 2'' (2022)

Detailed Discography

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EPs

Compilations

Singles

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Panda Eyes Records

Panda Eyes Records is a label created in 2018 by Oskar himself. This label allows him to publish his tracks on music streaming apps (like

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and more). In 2021, Oskar announces that his label will be able to discover new artists by releasing compilations. The first compilation named "Gems Only, Vol. 1" is a succession of 13 tracks created by artists on the way to success.

Career

Discography

Albums / LPs

EPs

Compilations

Detailed Discography

Albums / LPs

EPs

Compilations

Singles

Remixes

Panda Eyes Records

Discography

EPs

Compilations

Singles

References