― matt2 (matt2), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
95% sure it was NOT drexciya or UR
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 2 February 2007 06:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― tylero (tylero), Friday, 2 February 2007 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― tylero (tylero), Friday, 2 February 2007 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― tylero (tylero), Friday, 2 February 2007 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link
MYSTERY SOLVED ... now we know why i always thought it was a chain reaction related project!!
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 2 February 2007 07:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 2 February 2007 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 2 February 2007 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link
the one on orange vinyl is very very good
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 2 February 2007 09:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 2 February 2007 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― tylero (tylero), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― rio natsume (rio natsume), Saturday, 3 February 2007 03:29 (seventeen years ago) link
i have wrapped my life in chain reaction. the records keep destroying me. hallucinator "morpheus" and fluxion "prospect I/II."
― the table is the table (treesessplode), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― a (rslvd), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
also, i know i keep on saying this, but CHAIN FUCKING REACTION.
― the table is the table (treesessplode), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Display Name, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 05:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― am0n, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 06:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 06:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― am0n, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Display Name, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 07:19 (seventeen years ago) link
classic post
really really really really reaaaaaaaallly goodbc-02 - phylyps "trak"bc-03 - lyot "reshape"bc-07 - "octagon" / "octaedre"
really really really really good
bc-04 - quadrant "1.1"bc-08 - "radiance"bc-qd - quadrant "infinition"bc-cd - CD compilation
really really good but not sure what the point was
bc-01 - cyrus "enforcement"bc-09 - phylyps "trak ii"tresor 100 - scion arrange and process basic channel tracks
merely really good though sometimes boring
bc-05 - cyrus "inversion"bc-06 - quadrant "dub"
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, March 26, 2006 2:27 AM (ten years ago)
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 4 September 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link
Do Various Artists fit into this somewhere? Decay Product is a fantastic record.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Sunday, 4 September 2016 09:17 (seven years ago) link
Are these the same versions as on the 12"s or edited versions? www.discogs.com/Basic-Channel-BCD-2/release/1345423
― Wimmels, Sunday, 4 September 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
bc2's tracks are unedited
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Sunday, 4 September 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
thanks!
― Wimmels, Sunday, 4 September 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
Various Artists is Torsten Pröfrock, some stuff under T++ and was part of Robert Henke's Monolake stuff for a few releases.
afaik this thread is mostly basic channel the artists/label but the chain reaction stuff was what they published from others
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Sunday, 4 September 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
btw saw moritz dj this year, it was good
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Sunday, 4 September 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
Destroy "radiance" for inspiring all that shitty echo cord emo dub shit
― brimstead, Sunday, 4 September 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
enforcement is maybe the best for me. a brutal hypnosis.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 4 September 2016 23:22 (seven years ago) link
enforcement, phylyps trak ii, quadrant 1.1 and octaedre (though it is way too fast) are the ones that i still play out. phylyps trak ii still way, way out in front of all the others for me.
― stirmonster, Monday, 5 September 2016 00:37 (seven years ago) link
my favorites are probably
enforcementq 1.1 b1infinition
― brimstead, Monday, 5 September 2016 00:44 (seven years ago) link
All the 12"s were released digitally a while back - I got them from the Amazon MP3 store.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 5 September 2016 01:02 (seven years ago) link
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Saturday, September 3, 2016 9:37 PM (six years ago)
i would like to revise these rankings
― the late great, Saturday, 20 May 2023 16:05 (eleven months ago) link
at the time i was listening to a lot of hard techno, so probably overrated these two:
bc-02 phylyps trakbc-03 octagon / octaedre
of the two i think octagon holds up better as a “basic channel track”. i like the weird blippy noises on octagon that skitter across the sound field like drops of water dancing around a hot skillet. octaedre is not so exciting for me, it’s like they tacked the maurizio dub house beat onto the a-side, doesn’t quite work for me
phylyps trak also sounds (to me anyway) a lot like octagon with a beat tacked but it’s that insane barreling early 90s german techno beat. there’s a mills mix on one side and that’s how i think of the whole ep, as the most “techno compatible” of the series. i have to admit i can’t really tell the three mixes apart. maybe phylyps base emphasizes the kick (phylyps bass?) and i think at one point mills adds some choppy transmat type snares and hats? i usually just pick one randomly when i play it
people complain about these being too fast, and yeah like a lot of the series they’re 140+ bpm! but i guess with the rise of new “copenhagen techno” stuff and current interest in juke tempo music maybe it’s their time now
― the late great, Saturday, 20 May 2023 16:28 (eleven months ago) link
if it’s too fast you’re too old
― brimstead, Saturday, 20 May 2023 16:51 (eleven months ago) link
bc-03 lyot reshape
here’s an embarrassing confession, i think i was confusing this one with the maurizio lyot remix, which is part of m series not bc series. that one is obviously eternal. i like how submerged and spacey this mix is.
the phylyps mix on the other side is as indistinguishable to me as the others. at 10 mins long it might be the most functional one from a dj perspective? i feel like i discover something new each time i listen to a different mix … and then promptly forget whatever i discovered. maybe that’s a feature not a bug woth the phylyps traks
bc-05 cyrus inversion / presence
i never listen to inversion. i’m not sure what the appeal is. i guess maybe the unique synth notes over the top? those notes sound vaguely middle eastern to me (like some sort of zither) maybe that’s why it says “cyrus” on the label? but i find the thick high frequency hiss maddening
presence reminds me of lyot reshape, as spacey as this set gets. it’s like listening to a glacier, or glimpsing an iceberg in the fog, a vague impression of something distant and massive that goes on almost forever and you’re only seeing the barest outlines. one of my favorite chain reaction tracks (ridis “foto”) pulls a similar trick ... but as as i love staring into the void, i’m not always in the mood for staring into void. sometimes it’s like sinking into an amniotic bath, sometimes it’s just too distant, too cold and forbidding. idk how it manages to be both, probably just had to do with my moods?
― the late great, Saturday, 20 May 2023 16:58 (eleven months ago) link
xp TRUE!
― the late great, Saturday, 20 May 2023 16:59 (eleven months ago) link
classic post revision
― z_tbd, Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:02 (eleven months ago) link
It’s Saturday afternoon, it’s beautiful, it’s a clear and pleasant day outside, we’re out here revising the classics
― z_tbd, Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:03 (eleven months ago) link
bc-08 radiance
someone on discogs called this “the most broken” of the series and yes i agree. similar vibe imo as presence and the phylyps track reshape, but formless to the point of evoking anxiety. thirty years on most of these records just sound like techno / house to me (testament to their influence over the genre and also how well they understood what came before them) but this is the one that still matches what was written about them in the wire (biba kopf?) … you’re never sure where the music ends and the static begins. the “radiance” of the title always made me think of the aura you see before a migraine, or maybe ghosts. maybe that was in the wire article too
as before, sometimes i don’t want to get quite so deep in the zone
― the late great, Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:08 (eleven months ago) link
it’s cold af here (63F) and completely cloudy, i want to die
― the late great, Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:09 (eleven months ago) link
perfect bc weather imo
― z_tbd, Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:14 (eleven months ago) link
25 years ago I was really into this stuff but always preferred the Chain Reaction side of things. And of that, only still listen today to the Porter Ricks Biokinetics album. When I sold the bulk of my CD collection the buyer didn’t want my BC or Chain Reaction CDs so I have it for free to Wonder Book in Frederick Maryland for some lucky person to find.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:15 (eleven months ago) link
“I gave it for free”
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:16 (eleven months ago) link
bc-04 quadrant
i think of this one as the pop one now. partly because it’s the sampler, short tracks for diverse moods. classic dub techno (1.1.i) broken chain reaction stuff (1.1.iii) total zonk (1.1.iiii). but also because it has the funkiest track of the whole series (1.1.iii) ultimate dj weapon for any club, warehouse, party, wine bar, video stream, whatever
bc-09 phylyps trak ii
like m-04, m-05, m-06 and maybe m-07 this one is also in the pop category because if the tempo is right you can magically make it work in just about any house / techno set, you can pop in and out at any point or play the whole damn thing and it will sound good. absolutely perfect record.
and that’s just the b-side! the a-side is maybe just another mix of phylyps trak but with this relentless chord hit that pushes it to the edge of hysteria. not quite as versatile plus there’s a break you got to look out for at 8 mins that stops things dead in their tracks
― the late great, Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:21 (eleven months ago) link