basic channel/maurizio/chain reaction, s&d

hardwax DOES sell digital

http://hardwax.com/basic-channel/?paginate_by=50

click "show downloads"

oh shi

Oh wow thank u, mh!!

no download of lyot, wonder why ... does tresor have rights to that one?

remembered I have the "arrange and process" mix on my phone. it is still the best thing.

otm, that comp is what made me realize that this stuff is best heard mixed

that comp never really clicked with me, had the same issues with it that i did w/ hawtin's decks fx 909 mixes ... not bad per se, but a bit bland compared to the originals

the originals are just such monoliths, the seamless ableton mixing kind of digests them down into much mushier fare

yeah but it plays like three of them at once and it's like a swirling intenseness

i enjoy the mix and the monoliths. the individual tracks are what got me into basic channel, though

monoliths?

just using tlg's lingo

sometimes i just gotta soak my brain in this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DjRiI1jQGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhEfxnYj9c

There's a new BC 12", with some old, unreleased (and pretty amazing) tracks on it

http://basicchannel.com/item/BC-CD

Q-Loop (Full length) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-B96EvUB9Q

Whaaaaaaaaaaat?

http://www.factmag.com/2016/10/12/porter-ricks-shadow-boat-ep-tresor-announced/

new porter ricks is good

Fluxion's "Vibrant Forms III" sounds exactly like I and II, listening to it is like being stuck in a time warp where the clock never strikes Jan 1, 2001.

no metal box no credibility.

― jed_, Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:13 AM (eight years ago)

https://hardwax.com/24397/various-artists/compiled/

lol. i remember seeing those in shops and snootily dismissing them. who on earth would buy a COMPACT DISC of such music

My Maurizio metal box rusted and warped, cracking the cd center :( Luckily I managed to digitize the thing.

my dudes

https://hardwax.com/00090/vainqueur/reductions-1995-1997/

considering challenging conventional wisdom and doing a poll of the chain reaction compact disc releases

why not?

do it up

chain reaction, a sublabel of basic channel: best compact disc release

tada

Someone left a copy of their screenplay at the record store????????? pic.twitter.com/xHFz9IUWYF

— karina unleashed (@karinasoni) November 18, 2018

Would definitely watch this film

I screamed reading the entire thing. The main villian in the story is someone who goes by the online username “aphextriplet85”

— karina unleashed (@karinasoni) November 18, 2018

I couldn't resist

omgggg

ha amazing

Yes, I enjoy a good "dub techno" track every now and then.

I consider Yagya to be dub techno’s version of, like, Tycho or someone, but I listened to the Rhythm of Snow the other day and its soothing qualities appealed to me.

"rigning" is pretty nice

I listened to the Round One to Round Five/Main Street Records comp today and this track was a huge standout, like super dubby minimal techno with muted little wisps of funk and house, I wish more of their stuff sounded exactly like this

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

:)

Those four Round Four / Round Five tracks are colossal. And yeah, Find a Way the most among them.

I spent 3 hours last night listening to the entire Rhythm & Sound label output (excluding the Burial Mix stuff) and it's... fine? A lot of it is just soooooo slow, like 60bpm, it feels v v loose and sparse and I am not quite getting this whole "omg so influential, set the blueprint for a whole generation of techno" type stuff.

I also wish more stuff sounded like "Find a Way", it seems like a bit of an outlier in the BC universe and they don't seem to have made a whole lot that sounds like it

"omg so influential, set the blueprint for a whole generation of techno"

that more applies to Basic Channel, no?

Don't get me wrong, Rhythm & Sound / Burial Mix was influential for sure but it was the BC stuff that set a blueprint that is still getting rinsed to this day.

The Burial Mix releases absolutely RULE so if you haven't explored those (it was hard to tell from your posts) you are in for a massive treat.

its so lame to talk about "proper bass" but R&S with the proper bass feels dense and almost unbearably heavy

Do you know this one, Stevie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJVdrU5R1Qk

I think it’s too easy to take Maurizio and Basic Channel et al for granted given all the imitators that followed. The intersection of dub and techno is, for me, one of the great innovations in modern music. Rhythm & Sound’s music somehow doesn’t sound exactly like techno, and doesn’t sound exactly like dub, but the combination of the two captures most of the things I love about those styles. I guess what I mean is that as cool as the concept is on paper, the application of the idea has always, for me, exceeded those expectations, which is an amazing thing that never happens.

And yeah that Faith 12" jed posted has been on my wantlist for a while. Guess there are no plans to reissue any of that stuff

idiotic opinion alert: to me it feels like an inordinate amount of BC imitators never got past "radiance" and were hellbent on making endless watered down false vibes. idk. yr typical token "b2 heres my dubby techno track" is the equiv of yr typical token downtempo/trip-hop track from 20-25 years back.

I’m not sure if this is what you were getting at exactly, but your post got me thinking about the dub techno continuum as compared to trip hop and I started wondering things like: Did trip hop ever even have its own Basic Channel or was it too easy to digest from the get-go? I guess my knee-jerk answer would be early Ninja Tune and Shadow records acts like DJ Food and Hedfunk: Less accessible acts who had a singular vision and whose work was hard enough to find that they gained a kind of cult like status.

the thing is, i don't like massive attack at all... but either them or portishead would be a good answer! anybody remember supreme beings of leisure? ick!

i believe i am conflating trip-hop with "blunted beats" or what have you... yeah i think dj food's super austere jazz brakes stuff is a good answer.

my ex was v v into trip hop in the 90s and I recently spent a bit of time acquainting myself with a bunch of the acts that were big at the time but have not had much lasting power (Sneaker Pimps, Lamb, Hooverphonic, Morcheeba, etc) and a lot of it felt incredibly derivative/formulaic/uninspired, like v v buzz-chasing, I don't think I realized the extent to which it was a total fad

I don't think Lamb belongs in that group :(

Morcheeba though were clearly worthless at the time

My buddy and i found a whole cache of chain reaction 12s last week and i have been fully immersed. Hadnt ever really gotten much more than a cursory listen to this stuff before and now im lovin it

Favorites so far are hallucinator's kilimanjaro, porter ricks's nautical dub, and vladislav's ranta

wow, where was this?

gah 69, are you in the east bay SF area perchance? One of my local stores got in a huge buy of dope black country techno and FACT deep house stuff and yeah lots of BC and CR