basic channel/maurizio/chain reaction, s&d

yeah some of the pressings are quite sloppy, i'll give you that -- but the clear version of bc04 -- oof. one of the best sounding records i own.

i dunno about the crackly press of lyot remix being unintentional though... i actually think it sounds better that way! as hardwax notes about its dancehall: "Most of these are Jamaican pressings, with crackle and dust built in. This is how it’s supposed to be!"

rhythm and sound no longer together?

http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/08/04/sad-news/

i'd say moritz von oswald doing a remix of 2raumwohnung is a fairly strong indicator they're on a break at least. whatever happened to that luciano remix he had scheduled on ostgut ton?

holy blargh.

Anyway, if the warehouse rave thing is true of Basic Channel, then I feel like Fluxion is hearing a dark warehouse rave from inside a gigantic tank of water.

also. UR mix of Ploy is great, had never heard it before a few days ago.

they both did separate remixes of Tony Allen this year too.

yeah i know but the relative insignificance of 2raumwohnung just set the really set the alarm bells ringing for me...

-1st set the...

no offence intended to 2raumwohnung particularly. i'd just never imagine them getting a basic channel family remix.

i still haven't heard the full m-series, just the comp. cd

who's loss? your loss!

resolved, you are right about bc-04. the way that first track sounds, that way it moves me... i think my favorite basic channel song if i picked one. funky, dark, moody, uplifting rhythms, perfect timing, pumping bass

and the UR mix of ploy! that's what made me listen to UR. probably my fave UR song besides amazon and transition.

That Moritz mix of Tony Allen! =00000000000

should be 2x as long

wait, im thinking of moyege (marks disco dub).

maurizio!

substance!

i listen to the R&S CD the most of all the BC related stuff, followed by the BC:CD and then the Main Street CD. i have a bunch of all this stuff on vinyl, and i love playing the M records in a deejay set but on their own they dont do much.

and i know this is close to heresy, but i dont really like any of the Chain Reaction stuff. maybe a couple monolake bits and a couple porter ricks jams but most of that stuff is too clinical, not enough soul for my taste.

poppycock.

pipecock: no love for vainqueur? not even this?

That record isn't actually on Chain Reaction.

thanks for pointing that out

cos i said 'no love for chain reaction, not even this' up there, i can see

Rene Lowe's best work was on labels other than CR. Pipecock was not criticising Vainquer, but CR as a whole.

resolved fucking up doesn't make pipecock right, though

"pipecock: no love for vainqueur? not even this?

-- resolved"

nah, even that i thought was wildly overrated. some of my least favorite BC/R&S related records are the ones with tikiman on them (the early Burial mixes, the 2 middle Main Streets [though the last mainstreet is DEEEEEEEP, possible my favorite R&S jam!], etc). and vaniquer is just not my kind of thing. its funny, of the CR stuff, i feel like they were related to BC in the most shallow possible manner, none of it can really match the emotional content of the R&S records. obviously the BC guys were into it since they released it, but it was like they were putting out the less interesting music related to what they came up with.....

i think the early burial mixes are some of the best. never tell you the time and what a mistry are fantastic.

why is king

"i think the early burial mixes are some of the best. never tell you the time and what a mistry are fantastic.

-- elan"

i just dont feel them as much as say "best friend" (imo so obviously the best one), "music hit you", or "king/queen in my empire"......

yeah, best friend might be the best. and music hit you! that was the first thing where i sat down with a drum machine and figured out the beat. it's pretty simple, but whatevs.

this is like "what's better: quadrant dub or quadrant q1.1?" WHY CHOOSE. except you still found the wrong choice by slagging the tikiman showcase ;)

ps q1.1

pretty obvious that the chain reaction stuff was their experimental off-shoot, for headphones not dancefloors, but even so i could see vainqueur's 'solanus' getting thrown into a techno set without a blink. that elevations cd is one of the best things on c.r. i think

hell, substance and fluxion too

lots of the 12s work really well on the dancefloor - "emerge", "erosion 1", "no stunts", the ridis 12", "resilient 1.1" etc etc. i guess the cd releases allowed producers to really stretch out and get dubbier and more ambient. was listening to the various artists album the other night, i could dance to that shit, sleep to it, dance and sleep at the same time, whatever - so nice! someone should do a cr cd poll or something.

i like chain reaction more than basic channel, but they are both great obviously.

i really love how loud and brash the open 909 hats are on alot of this stuff, like it's the one absolute, physical thing holding down all this inner space noise

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.