Panther Modern

In this screenshot from a Dec 24, 2023 Instagram post Brady Keehn (Panther Modern) can been seen with their Korg MS-20 clearly in the background, 2nd instrument from the top. Note that the photo is flipped/mirrored, the MS-20's patch bay is actually on the right side of the unit, not the left as shown, and the rest of the gear in the photo is mirror-flipped in the same way.

Additionally, Brady mentions his Korgs in this October 24, 2023 interview for Ableton.com which is focused on his other (stylistically similar) band, Sextile:

Right now I’m working from a home studio, which holds the majority of our equipment. As mentioned, the Korg MS-10 was the first keyboard I bought, but now I own the whole series including the MS-50, Rev 1 and Rev 2 versions of the MS-20 and the desktop version. I’ve also got a nice unit full of rack synths, polysynths, patch bays and effects pedals and recently purchased an Elektron Analog Rytm MKII drum machine. Melissa has her own old-school setup with an original Sequential Circuits Pro One, an MS-20 and a couple of other things to get going with.

In this screenshot from a Dec 24, 2023 Instagram post Brady Keehn (Panther Modern) can been seen with their Korg MS-50 clearly in the background, as the bottom instrument. Note that the photo is flipped/mirrored, the MS-50's VU meter is actually on the right side of the unit, not the left as shown, and the rest of the gear in the photo is mirror-flipped in the same way.

Additionally, Brady mentions his Korgs in this October 24, 2023 interview for Ableton.com which is focused on his other (stylistically similar) band, Sextile:

Right now I’m working from a home studio, which holds the majority of our equipment. As mentioned, the Korg MS-10 was the first keyboard I bought, but now I own the whole series including the MS-50, Rev 1 and Rev 2 versions of the MS-20 and the desktop version. I’ve also got a nice unit full of rack synths, polysynths, patch bays and effects pedals and recently purchased an Elektron Analog Rytm MKII drum machine. Melissa has her own old-school setup with an original Sequential Circuits Pro One, an MS-20 and a couple of other things to get going with.

In this screenshot from a Dec 24, 2023 Instagram post Brady Keehn (Panther Modern) can been seen with their Korg MS-20M clearly in the background, as 3rd from the top instrument, patched full of colorful cables.

You can see the instrument even more clearly in this TikTok post from August 2023.

Additionally, Brady mentions this Korg MS-20M desktop in this October 24, 2023 interview for Ableton.com which is focused on his other (stylistically similar) band, Sextile:

Right now I’m working from a home studio, which holds the majority of our equipment. As mentioned, the Korg MS-10 was the first keyboard I bought, but now I own the whole series including the MS-50, Rev 1 and Rev 2 versions of the MS-20 and the desktop version. I’ve also got a nice unit full of rack synths, polysynths, patch bays and effects pedals and recently purchased an Elektron Analog Rytm MKII drum machine. Melissa has her own old-school setup with an original Sequential Circuits Pro One, an MS-20 and a couple of other things to get going with.

In this screenshot from a Dec 24, 2023 Instagram post Brady Keehn (Panther Modern) can been seen with their Roland JP-8080 module clearly in the background, at the very top of the frame.

In this October 24, 2023 interview for Ableton.com, Brady Keehn of Sextile (who performs solo as Panther Modern) discusses the importance of his Korg MS-10:

Ableton: Push clearly incorporates more electronic elements into your sound. I understand the Korg MS-10 helped instigate this change?

Panther Modern: I always say that I’m not really a musician. I can’t put two hands on a keyboard or solo on a guitar, but I do know how to record. I’m kind of inspired by Brian Eno, who would also admit to not being a virtuoso musician but uses the studio as an instrument. On the first two records, I used VSTs, a Korg Polysix and a Yamaha DX-7, but the MS-10 has a very beefy and particular sound that I was drawn to. When I first came across it I couldn’t play it as well as I’d have liked, so I used Ableton as the brain, sending sounds out to a sequencer and using those to sequence the MS-10. That was the first time I started sequencing basslines and other sounds in time with other instruments, which opened up a whole new door, and we’ve been working in dance music ever since.

You can see his MS-10 in action in this TikTok post from August 2023.

In this October 24, 2023 interview for Ableton.com, Brady Keehn of Sextile (who performs solo as Panther Modern) mentions his Elektron Analog Rytm MK2:

I’ve also got a nice unit full of rack synths, polysynths, patch bays and effects pedals and recently purchased an Elektron Analog Rytm MKII drum machine.

In this October 24, 2023 interview for Ableton.com, Brady Keehn (aka Panther Modern) mentions they used a Yamaha DX7 on the first two Sextile albums:

On the first two records, I used VSTs, a Korg Polysix and a Yamaha DX-7, but the MS-10 has a very beefy and particular sound that I was drawn to.

In this October 24, 2023 interview for Ableton.com, Brady Keehn (aka Panther Modern) mentions they used a Korg PolySix on the first two Sextile albums:

On the first two records, I used VSTs, a Korg Polysix and a Yamaha DX-7, but the MS-10 has a very beefy and particular sound that I was drawn to.

In this 2024 interview with San Diego Goth/Industrial event collective Modern.Wav, Brady Keehn (Panther Modern, Sextile) mentions the setup their currently using:

In terms of tools/gear I used, of course my Korg MS20 and MS10, a beatstep pro, a keystep pro, an emu polysynth, Ableton and a custom drumrack I built using samples of 808s and 909s I recorded myself.