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 !
― blunt, Saturday, 1 March 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
interestingly some artists stay w/out question (alphabetically so far: air liquide, juan atkins, daniel bell)
― blunt, Saturday, 1 March 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I are serious cat. bye, bartz & bicknell! see you in another life, beltram & baxter!
― blunt, Saturday, 1 March 2008 23:37 (sixteen years ago) link
dude you can't get rid of blake baxter records. wtf.
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 1 March 2008 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
oh I'm the first one to be surprised believe me. or I had the wrong 10 bb records.
― blunt, Sunday, 2 March 2008 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Now on Beatport, if anyone didn't know...
― toby, Sunday, 2 March 2008 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
ps i found my basic channel cd
:-]
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 2 March 2008 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 2 March 2008 08:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 2 March 2008 10:00 (sixteen years ago) link
bb?
― Jena, Sunday, 2 March 2008 10:46 (sixteen years ago) link
blake baxter. think I last saw him at the moog club in bcn about 5 years ago too. way too loud!
― blunt, Sunday, 2 March 2008 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― mehlt, Sunday, 2 March 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 2 March 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
'the köner experiment' is underrated
― am0n, Sunday, 2 March 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
i like the porter ricks remix of low. i don't remember anything else about that remix album, though.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 3 March 2008 09:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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/
― toby, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
A lot of this stuff is on bleep now, too.
― mh, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 02:23 (sixteen years ago) link
It's on Amazon, too, even.
― toby, Saturday, 19 April 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― am0n, Saturday, 24 May 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
no metal box no credibility.
― jed_, Saturday, 24 May 2008 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
paper spindle at least?
― sexyDancer, Saturday, 24 May 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i wonder if this one will be mastered really quiet.
― jed_, Saturday, 24 May 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
oh i went and picked up "symbiotics" because of the revive ... not bad! better than i thought, much like i was advised.
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 1 June 2008 09:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 1 June 2008 09:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Through some anonymous Hardwax-distributed/connected producer: http://hardwax.com/10001/
This shit sounds smokin' hot.
― Bill in Chicago, Thursday, 19 June 2008 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
monolake 'hong kong' reissued
http://www.monolake.de/releases/ml-000.html
― am0n, Sunday, 29 June 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 6 July 2008 03:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Please just do a complete set of full-length BC 12"s and the Basic Reshape tracks on CDs.
― brg30, Monday, 7 July 2008 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
you can download the complete BC 12" discog from Other Music, etc.
― sexyDancer, Monday, 7 July 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone know much about the moritz van oswald trio?
― oh, pregnantpaws (haitch), Monday, 27 April 2009 03:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― straightola, Monday, 27 April 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
anticipating the Moritz von Oswald Trio
― Dr. Phil, Monday, 27 April 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
xp: aye. for more Fruity Von Owswald numbers, check his collaborations with Blake Baxter
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Monday, 27 April 2009 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
the A2 and B3 on the new demdike stare album sample from "biokinetics" and "hongkong"
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 3 September 2010 07:11 (thirteen years ago) link
anybody heard this yet?
http://www.honestjons.com/label.php?pid=36607
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 3 September 2010 07:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, it's really, really good
― sisilafami, Friday, 3 September 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
so much love for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYL3o6hHzJo
― elan, Sunday, 13 February 2011 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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 :/
― mh, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
It's nowhere near as good as Biokinetics if that helps!
― the box cutter killer from the calcutta gutter (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 05:59 (twelve years ago) link
S/T essential for "spoiled" at least
― river, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
I may have confused it with Biokinetics! You are correct.
― mh, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
I had a double point of confusion: it is Biokinetics that is reissued. Which is good.
― mh, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuyrzxJQd9c
― love's secret borad (clouds), Friday, 26 April 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
is there a legit place to PURCHASE the full length tunes from BC and M-series in a lossless file format? Hardwax doesnt f/w selling digital files, afaict (wouldn't necessarily expect them too anyway, to some extent.the files i see elsewhere at boomkat and such,.. I am concerned they are all from needledrops or something equally dubious.
(((not super interested in getting into strawman debates with real techno headz about *format* but i'd give it a go)))
― brimstead, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
hardwax DOES sell digital
http://hardwax.com/basic-channel/?paginate_by=50
click "show downloads"
― mh, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
oh shi
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
Oh wow thank u, mh!!
― brimstead, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
no download of lyot, wonder why ... does tresor have rights to that one?
― the late great, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:40 (ten years ago) link
remembered I have the "arrange and process" mix on my phone. it is still the best thing.
― mh, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
otm, that comp is what made me realize that this stuff is best heard mixed
― clouds, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link