basic channel/maurizio/chain reaction, s&d

substance does some great stuff like that with the clave sounds instead of the hats, same idea though. It's def. the real anchor for almost everything, refreshingly backwards

It's an especially nice contrast with most of what's coming out these days, what with the fad for really short, clipped, ultra-restrained hi-hat sounds, hardly any hi-end hiss to modern techno AT ALL.

I always thought the bassline on 'what a mistry' sounded like it was being played on a tuba. It's kind of brassy sounding isn't it.

so I was playing 'round one - I'm your brother' in my room today and my roomate came in and took a listen and pointed out that the lyrics of that song are from an Isley Brother's tune: Caravan of Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6gmrM6C8O0

wow!

holy shit! i wonder about new day.

wild. its like they "sampled" the chorus. i wonder if the verses are from anything? gotta say that as much as i love the isleys, the main street version is far superior ;)

;_;

organizing CDs today and i noticed that my BC compilation CD is missing. the metal tin is there, but there's nothing in it!

six months ago when my monolake CD cracked into pieces i freaked out and took all of the discs out. then i put them in empty jewel cases (these pile up like crazy because i keep all of my CDs in plastic sleeves). later i got some plastic CD sleeves and put them in those. i think maybe i didn't take out the BC CD and threw it out w/ the jewel cases when i did my monthly "throw out all the jewel cases" sweep.

either that or it's misfiled somewhere among either 1000s of plastic sleeves or 100s of digipaks ...

haha omg porter ricks "spoiled" (force inc.) neverending subaquatic tunnel of disco house heaven

ysi

also: is "symbiotics" (porter ricks vs techno animal) any good?

i'm inclined to think: no, not really

moi non plus. re:ysi, I wish I had casually digitized my vinly over time... saying goodbye to the bulk of it in one sitting. loss will make me better !

interestingly some artists stay w/out question (alphabetically so far: air liquide, juan atkins, daniel bell)

I are serious cat. bye, bartz & bicknell! see you in another life, beltram & baxter!

dude you can't get rid of blake baxter records. wtf.

oh I'm the first one to be surprised believe me. or I had the wrong 10 bb records.

Now on Beatport, if anyone didn't know...

ps i found my basic channel cd

:-]

also: is "symbiotics" (porter ricks vs techno animal) any good?

i'm inclined to think: no, not really

it's, uh, not as bad as you might think? i thought it was alright at a time when i was way more into PR than techno animal.

saw bb dj in glasgow about five years ago, he was the debut guest dj at a friend's (short-lived) club night - his set stripped the paint off the walls, people were going b-a-n-a-n-a-s

bb?

blake baxter. think I last saw him at the moog club in bcn about 5 years ago too. way too loud!

I bought symbiotics a couple months ago, granted, I think I would have obviously preferred have found biokinetics at the store that day, but nevertheless it's pretty good, although a bit unmemorable and a bit dry. I've taken to liking the techno animal stuff a bit more (and am a much bigger PR fan as well), but it is pretty good.

I haven't listened to "Symbiotics" in ages, but I was very underwhelmed by it at the time. It's got a couple of good PR tracks, but take a pass on the TA stuff.

"Spoiled" rules and the entire "Porter Ricks" album is criminally underrated. I find Koener's longer ambient album a bit tough to take in one sitting, but this album strikes a great balance between stuff with beats and without.

'the köner experiment' is underrated

i like the porter ricks remix of low. i don't remember anything else about that remix album, though.

did anyone try the beatport mp3s/wavs? does the remastering make much difference? i see they're now available more affordably here:

http://www.digital-tunes.net/labels/basic_channel/

A lot of this stuff is on bleep now, too.

It's on Amazon, too, even.

http://basicchannel.com/item/BCD-2

One of the quintessential electronic music compilations of all time. Basic Channel BCD-2 features full length versions of six of the label’s landmark club tracks released on vinyl between 1993 and 1995. From today’s perspective, in this open sound much of the later Rhythm & Sound imprint (as released on Rhythm & Sound: s/t) with its echo-heavy atmospheric density was already layed out here.

* Enforcement
* Phylyps Trak
* Inversion
* Octagon
* Octaedre
* Phylyps Trak II/II

BCD-2 (CD) 2008

no metal box no credibility.

paper spindle at least?

i wonder if this one will be mastered really quiet.

oh i went and picked up "symbiotics" because of the revive ... not bad! better than i thought, much like i was advised.

first impressions:

1) a couple of pretty great porter ricks tracks in the dirty modulated static acid house vein of "port of call"

2) an incredible ambient isolation track called "phosphoric". just deep bass pulses and echoey parking garage ambiance. field recordings from an abandoned space station.

3) techno animal tracks sounding very fresh in light of shackleton and whatnot.

Through some anonymous Hardwax-distributed/connected producer:
http://hardwax.com/10001/

This shit sounds smokin' hot.

monolake 'hong kong' reissued

http://www.monolake.de/releases/ml-000.html

BASIC CHANNEL: Basic Channel 2 CD (BCD 002CD) 17.00
The first CD compilation of Basic Channel releases from 1995 became one of the quintessential electronic music compilations of all time. Now, in a total surprise move, a companion CD, Basic Channel 2, has been released -- featuring full-length versions of six of the label's landmark club tracks released on vinyl between 1993 and 1995. From today's perspective, you can see and hear much of the later Rhythm & Sound style, with its echo-heavy atmospheric density, already laid out to perfection here. Basic Channel is the minimal techno production team and record label, composed of Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus, that originated in Berlin, Germany in 1993. They released a classic series of 9 iconic 12" records in the mid-'90s, and this CD compilation of material is taken from those 12"s. Featured here, on CD for the first time, are some of the most legendary electronic music tracks of all time: "Enforcement," "Phylyps Trak," "Inversion," "Octagon," "Octaedre," and "Phylyps Trak II/II." Stylistically, Basic Channel creates their own sub-genre of Detroit techno; slowly developing pulsations and abstractions with a heavy emphasis on post-dub processed crackles, blips and hiss -- the word "seminal" was invented for moments just like this.

Please just do a complete set of full-length BC 12"s and the Basic Reshape tracks on CDs.

you can download the complete BC 12" discog from Other Music, etc.

anyone know much about the moritz van oswald trio?

just picked up the main street comp, completely brilliant and I dont know how ive managed to be a BC fan for so long and managed to miss it. I was kind of hoping it would all be fruity garage numbers but the whole package slays

anticipating the Moritz von Oswald Trio

xp: aye. for more Fruity Von Owswald numbers, check his collaborations with Blake Baxter

the A2 and B3 on the new demdike stare album sample from "biokinetics" and "hongkong"

anybody heard this yet?

http://www.honestjons.com/label.php?pid=36607

yes, it's really, really good

so much love for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYL3o6hHzJo

For lack of a better place to put this:

Type records has reissued the Porter Ricks s/t on vinyl, to be on CD shortly. I was trying to not buy any new vinyl early this year, but this is selling out fast :/

It's nowhere near as good as Biokinetics if that helps!

S/T essential for "spoiled" at least

I may have confused it with Biokinetics! You are correct.