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Looking to learn a lot more about Dub Techno? (pg. 2)
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| PETRAN |
| quote: | Originally posted by sljiva
Dub Techno is pretty much the only type of dance music I can stand right now, although it's, just like the any genre out there, becoming more and more saturated with crap. But here are some of my favourite artists:
Basic Channel (and their projects: Maurizio, Rhythm & Sound, Cyrus, Phylyps)
Sandoz
Substance & Vainqueur (and their project Scion)
Porter Ricks
Vladislav Delay
Fluxion
Echospace (and their projects: cv313, Deepchord, Soultek, Intrusion...)
Monolake
Mikkel Metal
Thomas Fehlmann
Pole
Quantec
Deadbeat
Convextion
Move D
Arne Weinberg
Shed
Pendle Coven
Leonid
Claro Intelecto
Important albums:
Pole - 1 2 3
Monolake - HongKong
Basic Channel - BCD1 & BCD2
Sandoz - Digital Lifeforms
Fluxion - Vibrant Forms
Echospace - The Coldest Season
Important labels:
Basic Channel (and all of its sublabels like Chain Reaction, Rhythm & Sound, Maurizio...)
Deepchord (and Echospace)
Modern Love
Fortune8
AW-Recordings
Echocord
Hope that's enough for a start. You can go on from here on your own and search through labels to create a network of artists and projects you found interesting. |
Yep, thats it!
And boy do i love Fluxion's productions...and all Basic Channel projects ofcourse :D
Thomas Fehlmann is also excellent. A bit underrated and unknown i think. A pitty really because he has a very clear and moving fluid-like sound (or so i remember).
Arne Weinberg and Claro Intelecto are more detroit-revival techno though aren't they? Well, they still belong to the broader americano-centric deep sound which is the quality stuff. |
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| SMC |
| Model 500 - Starlight [Echospace] |
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| denys envy |
| quote: | Originally posted by sljiva
Shed |
very good. |
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| Sykonee |
Just because it'll probably get a bit looked over since Richard Kirk's project isn't typically at the top of lists, I'll offer another thumbs-up for Sandoz' Digital Lifeforms.
Here's an overly detailed review I wrote for the Redux edition. |
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| Guest |
BVDUB
Intrusion
Quantec
Soultek
Dub techno is getting a lot of attention nowaday |
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| Lomeli |
| ya. BVDUB is badass. |
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| ZeJayMan |
| quote: | Originally posted by sljiva
Dub Techno is pretty much the only type of dance music I can stand right now, although it's, just like the any genre out there, becoming more and more saturated with crap. But here are some of my favourite artists:
Basic Channel (and their projects: Maurizio, Rhythm & Sound, Cyrus, Phylyps)
Sandoz
Substance & Vainqueur (and their project Scion)
Porter Ricks
Vladislav Delay
Fluxion
Echospace (and their projects: cv313, Deepchord, Soultek, Intrusion...)
Monolake
Mikkel Metal
Thomas Fehlmann
Pole
Quantec
Deadbeat
Convextion
Move D
Arne Weinberg
Shed
Pendle Coven
Leonid
Claro Intelecto
Important albums:
Pole - 1 2 3
Monolake - HongKong
Basic Channel - BCD1 & BCD2
Sandoz - Digital Lifeforms
Fluxion - Vibrant Forms
Echospace - The Coldest Season
Important labels:
Basic Channel (and all of its sublabels like Chain Reaction, Rhythm & Sound, Maurizio...)
Deepchord (and Echospace)
Modern Love
Fortune8
AW-Recordings
Echocord
Hope that's enough for a start. You can go on from here on your own and search through labels to create a network of artists and projects you found interesting. |
thanks a lot for this post. absolutely essential.
been having a listen to a lot of your reccomendations.
making a mix in the next few days so i will pm you a link.
thanks a bunch! |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lomeli
ya. BVDUB is badass. |
eh not really a fan of anything bvdub has put out.
sjilva has the ultimate list, really - end of thread.
other important labels are styrax and styrax leaves. he also didn't mention marko furstenburg, who has some good records. namely untitled/falling leaves and repentence ep on a.r.t.less
he mentioned basic channel but check out moritz von oswald's solo work and work with carl craig under that name. he is one half of the two. as sand leaper alluded to,
other artists might be luke hess, daniel stefanik, blamstrain, xdb, yagya..
the meaning of the term 'dub techno' has become very broad these days.
i recommend reading this book 'dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in jamaican reggae' to understand where dub techno is coming from, or at least familiarize yourself with some dub music (king tubby, lee perry, scientist, channel one, errol thompson, etc).
dub is a set of techniques for fragmenting and transforming music into different versions and soundscapes according to a loose sonic philosophy (almost a cosmogony). typically dub works with existing sonic matter. the principal operations are the erasure and superimposition of layers of sound, which results in fragmentation and space and levels of density, emphasis on visceral, low pressure bass, the destabilization and emphasis of the beat vis a vis the delay, and the creation of artificial spaces vis a vis reverberation.
artists such as basic channel, who came from a reggae background, took these values and techniques and applied them to detroit techno, resulting in what we know as dub techno.
today there are a host of post-basic channel artists who copy the sound-world that basic channel created, without really understanding the origins and techniques which were its genesis.
this has led to a lot of very boring music (bvdub, countless netlabel artists)
however, there are definitely some artists who really 'get it', such as echospace (rod modell, steven hitchell)
I recommend watching this interview with Moritz von Oswald:
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/...ning_freestyles
and this interview with deepchord/soultek
http://www.textura.org/reviews/tenq...ord_soultek.htm
also, i have made a lot of dub techno mixes and mixes containing dub techno, which you can skim through
http://www.adamvana.com/mixes.htm |
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| |Thrax| |
^^^ that guy, knows a load about Dub. :)
I like Adam's mixes.
| quote: | | It ran out of gas once Basic Channel and Chain Reaction threw in the towel. That's really all you need to know. |
sneaky.
Wolfgang Voight |
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| noikeee |
| I need to read this thread very carefully one of these days and start exploring all of these artists. Just got into Maurizio/Basic Channel/Rhythm & Sound very recently. |
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| PETRAN |
| Truth to be said, i think that this sound can become extremely boring and monotonous. At the same time though and at the right "mindframe" (whatever that means) it can become quite interesting. I remember once hearing some maurizio tracks in a small dark club and it just didn't work (although it could just happen i guess). It is usually nice and atmospheric but not very danceable. But i use it to set an atmosphere or as background sound when i'm studying scientific stuff. Its generally very nice for chilling and/or introspection as well (or even meditation i guess, for those who are into that kind of stuff), the repeatetive hypnotic sounds can somehow affect consciousness in all sorts of interesting ways (without drugs) heh. It works great in this way! |
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