Best 90s electronic music duo (non knob-twiddlers edition)

oh duh, walker was in liquid, you're totally right. anyway, they were a big influence on that

xpost you didn't miscount, i think you just didn't count stuff like phylyps and rhythm & sound, they had a ton of aliases, right?

tuomas have you ever analyzed your overweening desire to always be right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x48HJpCuK-o

speaking of maurizio ploy remixes,

though i am tempted by MAW, my vote has to go the Orb.

Basic Channel belongs with the knob twiddlers, but clearly is the most important of these. I voted Lamb for sentimental reasons.

still not choosing between Lamb and Moloko (but if pressed, would pick Lamb)

gotta say dubby minimal is sounding kind of boring to me these days

4 Hero

I just wanted to say, I'm not denying Basic Channel were influential from the turn of the millennium onwards, when the German minimal techno scene became popular, it's just that I don't remember them being very infuential before that. In my recollection, the minimal scene in the 90s was less about dubby, "deep" tracks and more about harsh, dry tunes, like Emmanuel Top or Richie Hawtin or Panasonic, or German Schranz, or what was known as "monotrack" here in Finland. But of course it might've been different elsewhere in the world.

no pre-95 it was exactly as you describe but it's tricky because one bleeds into the other when you look at people like hawtin and dan bell

or baby ford or force inc etc etc

tuomas reads very well in eeyore voice

no pre-95 it was exactly as you describe but it's tricky because one bleeds into the other when you look at people like hawtin and dan bell

Yeah, but that was the exact reason I asked whether the Basic Channel tracks were influential when they originally came out, since that was in the early 90s.

My introduction to Basic Channel, Chain Reaction, Maurizio etc. was with their feature in The Wire which I think was Aug '96. It was at that point I saw them as superior in terms of sound design to a lot of German and European techno that preceded that time. They release the iconic metal boxed CDs around that time also I think. I remember people who I admired like Carl Craig were bigging them up in interviews. This was obviously a few years after they had released the first 12"s.

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the very first promo pile that arrived @ ireallylovemusic hq happened to be the back catalogue of eat static.
while the odd track was fun for 10 minutes, have to admit i never got to the end of an album.
same goes for the secret knowledge album to be honest .. /

my vote may be boring, but it has to be the orb.

Lamb without any hesitation.

basic channel v. lfo v. mouse on mars for me

mouse on mars fell off pretty hard, but god, i love their glam/instrumentals period so much.

basic channel 'radiance' also extremely beautiful.

all the lfo lps are quite good too. even have a lot of love for 'sheath'.

tough call.

Where's 2 Bad Mice?

Whether to vote Burger/Ink for one perfect album or Mouse on Mars for at least five near-perfect ones...

Alter Ego
Basic Channel
Burger/Ink
Masters At Work
Mouse On Mars
Shut Up & Dance

I think I'll go for Shut Up & Dance... never fails to get me going...

Burger/Ink are restyled as Mohn with a new album out very soon..!!

4hero, for Parallel Universe alone.

Finally got around to voting, decided on MAW just shading Basic Channel and Drexciya.

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photo finish.

LOLLLL

basic channel records were massive on the underground when they came out, those 12"s had a huge mystique iirc in terms of sound design and even the pressings themselves. dave clarke would routinely award them five dancing men in his Mixmag Update reviews.

i would have voted for MAW tho, tbh.

"The slammer" ices the rest of this boring egghead shit

Where's 2 Bad Mice?

I thought of including them, but apparently they had three members, despite the name.

Interesting that Moloko got only one vote, I thought they might win. I guess people don't listen tho them that much anymore, especially since Roisin Murphy has had such a strong solo career?

i like Moloko fine but vote for them over BC or Drexciya??? fucking mentalism

Non, non, non, non-non-non, knob!
Non non, non-non-non, knob!
Du-o...

Best 90 electronic music duo: THE FINAL BATTLE