Basic Techno

Basic Techno

Track Listings

1. Smooth Landing

2. Eniac - Octave One

3. Metaphor

4. Q 1.1

5. Axion - Sterac

6. Light's Forces - Oxo

7. Dance Force 909

8. Turbulence - Philippe Anselm

9. Cybercore

10. Open Minded - Ralphie Dee

11. Interpheron [Dave Clarke's Deconstructured Remix] - X-313

12. Set It Off - David Paxton

13. Grey - Joey Beltram

14. Zig Zag [Cy Locke- Peter Ford Remix] - DJ Sonic

Tracks:

Q Loop
E2e4 Basic Reshape
Cutisc
Quadrant
Radiance II
Not Recix
Presence
Q 1.1
Q 1.2
Radiance I
Radiance III

Album Description

Originally released in 1995 and out of print for quite awhile - this groundbreaking album laid the foundation to the Rhythm & Sound sonic aesthetics with its echo heavy atmospheric density.

Customer Reviews:

Essential minimal techno - without poser value.......2007-05-19

I found out about Berlin's Basic Channel label in 1995, through this CD, which absolutely blew my mind back then - as it does now. The "Basic Reshape" of Manuel Göttsching's E2E4, the second track on this CD, is the single most astonishing piece of minimal esthetics I know, infusing edgy cold desolation with a glowing warmth and depth that is beyond me to describe. It needs to be heard.

Q Loop, the CD's opener which hasn't ever been released on vinyl - more's the pity - sets the perfect stage for the genius of what follows, with a muffled but absolutely gut-wrenching kickdrum deeper than anything any of the pop-corn dance genres have to offer.

Quadrant (dub), the Radiance tracks... if you have any love for honest, non-poser minimalism with soul, you need this CD. Describing it only distracts from it, so I'll stop.

It never had a name..........2007-04-21

I purchased this album back in 1995 when it came in a tin box. Never knew what to call it, the cd had no info except for the tracks on the back and distorted cover art that I couldn't read. Yet with a little effort I found it. I purchased it when I was 13 only because the packaging looked interesting.

At 13 it was garbage, but in the present it has become a jewel in my music collection, and a valuable tool for live mixing at parties as a 3rd and 4th channel loop track that I use as a canvas/foundation for my DJing.

This album isn't what I'd call listener friendly, but any good DJ could make good use of such an album. It is an essential tool to my mixing and can be credited for my appeal, and sound asthetic.

cold minimalism.......2006-12-24

This a strong record -- it fuses cold cold icy minimalism with industrial approaches to dub -- and it works in quite a unique way.

It is fairly uncategorisable -- one moment it sounds like John Cage or Steve Reich's avant garde cold emptiness, the next minute it sounds llike African Head Charge or a stripped down, serious, Cuban percussion album.

This record can't really be compared to much else -- and therein lies its strength.

This is very very cold music, grey, harsh, industrial sounds, serious and often depressingly bleak.

If you love Throbbing Gristle, and dub, and avant garde, then this album will have something for you.

It sounds like a recording of a thundering , clattering post war Berlin factory -- suddenly found itself being trampled on and dissected by Lee Perry in Kingston Jamaica.

Having said that -- it avoids ALL the rotten cliches of the perfectly horrible, awful, "white reggae/euro reggae" dub scene, currently fairly popular in europe.

Average customer rating:

So Good It's Frightening...
More great Rhythm & Sound

See Mi Yah
Rhythm & Sound
Manufacturer: Burial Mix / Basic
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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See Mi Yah Remixes
The Versions
Maurizio
Rhythm & Sound

ASIN: B0007DHOIQ
Release Date: 2005-05-31

Tracks:

See Mi Yah w/ Willi Williams
Dem Never Know w/ Jah Cotton
Rise And Praise w/ Koki
Truly w/ Freddy Mellow
Lightning Storm w/ Rod Of Iron
Let Jah Love Come w/ Sugar Minott
Boss Man w/ Walda Gabriel
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Album Description

In the 90s, with projects and labels such as Basic Channel, Maurizio or Main Street Records, the Berlin based producer team Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald have decisively influenced the development of techno-house and electronic music worldwide. Furthermore Ernestus and von Oswald have released pioneering hybrids of reggae, dub and electronica under the name Rhythm & Sound since 1996. In the last few years an utterly original and independent definition of reggae music - stripped down, rootsy, hi-tech - has emerged from their activities. For their last album Rhythm & Sound w/ the artists Ernestus and von Oswald collaborated with legendary reggae vocalists, like Cornel Campbell, Jennifer Lara, Love Joy or The Chosen Brothers (aka Lloyd ³Bullwackie² Barnes). This line is being pursued consequently with their new CD/LP release See Mi Yah.

See Mi Yah is a classic one rhythm album, typical format and production approach in Reggae, featuring ten vocal versions and one instrumental of the See Mi Yah rhythm, that will have been pre-released as a series of seven 7-inch singles (additionally with 3 alternative instrumental versions) strictly roots!

After Paul St. Hilaire (formerly known as Tikiman) had lent his voice to quite a few Rhythm & Sound releases over the past years, the starting point for this project was to try and work also with his brother Ras Perez, their fellow Berlin based Dominicans Koki and Ras Donovan (also known from his collaboration with Mapstation), the Berlin based Jamaicans Freddy Mellow, Walda Gabriel, Bobbo Shanti, Lance Clarke as Rod Of Iron and Joseph Cotton aka Jah Walton as Jah Cotton as singers b/w DJs. With a toasting style heavily influenced by the legendary U-Roy, Cotton was a central figure in the jamaican DJ scene of the 70s and 80s. Alongside Ranking Joe and U-Brown he performed with the Blood & Fire Sound System a few years ago. On visit in Berlin, the great Sugar Minott and Willi Williams (famous for Studio 1 classic Armagideon Time) did their versions in the Rhythm & Studio studio.

For each tune the rhythm is arranged and mixed differently. On the album the tracks are lined up in a way that allows the listener to enjoy See Mi Yah as one continuous program running for about 46 minutes. It¹s never a bore and goes on in the listener's head, when voices, rhythm and sound will be long gone.

Customer Reviews:

So Good It's Frightening..........2006-06-23

This combination of roots vocals, dub rhythms, and HIGH-tech production finally perfects true 21st Century reggae music.

"w/the artists" almost did. This one does.

Buy all their stuff, but buy this one first - it's just scary good.

More great Rhythm & Sound.......2006-02-19

Rhythm & Sound just keeps doing it, hitting the formula of success. Mauritzio has sure evolved since the early Basic Channel days, but who would have thought he'd evolve back to the roots? Yet still maintaining the techno dub sound we have grown to love, and which essentially sparked an entire genre. So good -- buy it now.

Arrange and Process Basic Channel Tracks

Average customer rating:

verry nice!
The essence and completion of techno
wrong town ignore the 4 stars, I give it 1
Thank you Scion, Basic Channel, Tresor, Berlin, Detroit!!!
State Of Hypnotica

Arrange and Process Basic Channel Tracks
Scion
Manufacturer: Tresor
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000066I7Z
Release Date: 2002-08-13

Tracks:

part 01 w/ material from cyrus: inversion, the climax (basic reshape), mutism, radiance III
part 02 w/ material from cyrus: presence, q1.2 (BCD), "remake" basic reshape, radiance I, quadrant: infinition
part 03 w/ material from quadrant: infinition, rhythm & sound: music a fe rule, octaedre, octagon
part 04 w/ material from octagon, phylyps trak II/I, q1.1/IIII
part 05 w/ material from phylyps II/I, q loop
part 06 w/ material from phylyps trak, phylyps rmx
part 07 w/ material from cyrus: enforcement, phylyps trak II/II
part 08 w/ material from phylyps trak II/II, the climax (basic reshape)
part 09 w/ material from the climax (basic reshape), octagon, cyrus: recall

Album Description

Scion (Pete Kuschnereit aka Substance and Rene Löwe aka Vainqueur) have arranged and reworked back-catalog tracks from Basic Channel (Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus) with the help of Ableton's "LIVE" audio software.

The selection is focused on the more clubby tracks of the BC projects: Cyrus (Enforcement, Recall, Inversion), Phylyps (Trak I, Trak II), Quadrant (Q 1.1, Infinition) and Octagon/Octaedre. Also included is the 'basic reshape' of Carl Craig's Paperclip People classics "The Climax" and "Remake" and other atmospheric tracks as found on the Basic Channel CD. Most of the tracks were previously only available on vinyl 12-inches.

The result is not a simple mix-CD or compilation, but the connection of new software possibilities combined with Scion's experience as DJ's and live act.

Customer Reviews:

verry nice!.......2007-02-19

This CD is like candy to the ears. If U are in to Techno, this is one of the CD`s u must have in your shelve.

The essence and completion of techno.......2004-11-25

Basic Channel provided the raw material and Scion extracted the essence of it, to produce techno so complete that one gets the feeling that nothing substantial can ever be added.
Track 1 is one of the most sublime pieces of techno ever produced, and the rest seems almost insignificant in comparison, even though it is also superb techno.
Basic Channel was the frontier to which techno was pushed at the middle of the 90s. It is so essential and complete that it took almost ten years before anyone managed to take this music further; I believe it has only been done by Fluxion and Octex.

wrong town ignore the 4 stars, I give it 1.......2003-10-16

I am re-reviewing this cd, on first listen I liked it but it very quickly began to iratate me, unfortunately I cant change the stars, in which case I would give this cd 1 star. I hate it!

I love maurizio, his and mark's music is some of the most beautiful and sublime music ever made, this cd is wrong town!, dont buy it, get the originals and enjoy them in their entirity instead.

the mix is messy and far to busy for such minimal music, and he seems to make the music sound like rave doof, which is so far away from what the origanals sound like.

also check out mauurizio's, burial mix and rhythm and sound release's

Thank you Scion, Basic Channel, Tresor, Berlin, Detroit!!!.......2003-10-07

For those that know Basic Channel/Chain Reaction/Maurizio.. etc. etc. etc., Arrange and Process is definitely a must buy!

Simply, I would like to publicly and internationally THANK Basic Channel and like labels for giving us their perception and realization of sonic minimalism. Honestly, entities such as Arrange and Process give me reason to breathe....

State Of Hypnotica.......2003-06-15

Just like the the title says once you load this CD in and listen to it you WILL be in a state on hypnotica. I mean the tracks are heart pounding. Scion is a master at weaving the next track together, so much so that it almost sounds like the same song. Anyhow, I HIGHLY recommend this CD. It is a MUST HAVE for all minimal techno/trance/psychedelic music lovers. Oh and be careful driving while listening to this CD, because you might get lost in a trance. Get it Buy it do whatever you have to do. YOU NEED THIS CD I can't stress that enough.

Average customer rating:

i hate the 4/4 thump
Basic? Yes. Simple to do? NO!
Minimal
Correction!
Declick Pole and stuff it down your Rolling Stone box set.

Basic Channel
Basic Channel
Manufacturer: Efa Imports
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ASIN: B0000067BU
Release Date: 1998-04-07

Tracks:

Q Pop
E2e4 Basic Reshape
Cutisc
Quadrant
Radiance II
Not Recix
Presence
Q 1.1
Q 1.2
Radiance I
Radiance III

Customer Reviews:

i hate the 4/4 thump.......2005-03-29

Yes - i hate the 4/4 thump that you can hear in the majority of tracks here. Also the bpm is too fast for me - it is just a question of taste. I am a slow person. I prefer music with a more relaxado andamiento. This is why i like the songs of Depeche Mode in their album Ultra.
If you have any feedback please do not hesitate to contact me at
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Thanks.

Basic? Yes. Simple to do? NO!.......2003-01-17

I'm writing this as a music lover AND musician, and my first reaction to this CD was "ok, they have a drum loop run with a few sound effects for 6 minutes and call it a song." Boy was I wrong! The movements, progressions, and, if you will, melodies are on a hypnotic level that is easily missed at first, heck even third listen. Basic Channel has mastered the art of tapping into your psyche and giving your brain a ride through the dulling effect of a techno club downtown.

Speaking of "techno" clubs, since the word techno itself is very vague, I believe Basic Channel actually sounds more like you are OUTSIDE of a club, hearing the muted electronic kick pulse through the wall, but the echoing, wabbling synth tones seep through the ventilation cracks enough to entice your interest. Most cuts fade in and out, and I believe this is a collection of some abbreviated works that originally existed only on vinyl, so in some ways, you almost feel cheated that you don't have the whole thing... sounds crazy considering you just may have listened to an 8 minute track that a casual listener would say "sounds repetative."

Minimal.......2002-09-05

The ultimate in barely-there techno. Very minimal but very very very deep too. At first listen its repetitive and lengthy, but thats the beauty of it, such subtle changes in the songs, that you barely notice them before the tracks are over. You can get lost in this cd over and over again.

Truly is art

Correction!.......2002-08-28

This is NOT Pole as some user wrote in a review here.
Basic Channel was established by the berlin duo Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald (aka Maurizio)
This is an excellent cd of true minimal and detroit techno similar to the sound of many Chain Reaction releases.
Highly recommended if you like any sort of minimal and experimental techno/dub.

Declick Pole and stuff it down your Rolling Stone box set........2001-11-17

The early work of what's-his-name from Pole. I'm guessing if you've stumbled on this cd at Amazon you already know that Pole have released 4 albums, three on Matador, and one on their own label, Scape records, called R, and it's probably his best.

This album shares a lot of the gentle rustling electronic "clicks" that have made Pole famous. Basic Channel delivers on the glitch front as well, but there are tracks that are clean of the cuts, and focus on a kind of subtle, hushed house music. Kind of like some of the Gas albums, or that Burger/Ink record (also on Matador).

This feller has got a jones for dub music, and there's a sound on this album that reminds me of an old Scientist record I heard that had been so worn out from over-listening that it was all dulled and muffled and super warm sounding. That's kind of the Basic Channel vibe.

Fans of the deliclick of Pole, fans of the whump whump of a ceiling fan, and fans of great Gas music will enjoy this cd.

Tracks:

(Intro)
First
Krautrock
Movement
9 Hours Into The Future
Depart
Rotunda
Waiting
Scorn
Return

Customer Reviews:

Great.......2005-02-25

Beautiful, brain-rattling techno, with some tracks blaring off into steel-drum echo-chains of low-tech effects, boxes of reverb, all with the central beat crashing, waves of bass and accident, again and again, over and over, the central black eclipse of the punctuated beat stomping forward into the next track. And the next. And then the melody, or what passes for one, mixing in, louder, louder, a curtain of old electronica, the sound of the 90s, buzzing and flaring and the beat drops out and you're left in headphone space. A really great record. Crisp and fuzzy at the same time, good for mixing, dancing, typing, standing there drinking wine at midnight, good for driving. Good for thinking, the loops and subprocesses, the filigree and space. Again and again, and the beat never stops. The universe is all continuation. Everything sounds like everything else. The beat is continuous. The tracks begin again...

don't dismiss the RAF - britain finally did something good.......1999-10-28

taking sound into new levels, surgeon is still a bit green here (he's capable of a lot in my opinion)- but its a great album, more for the people (traditional dance floor) than some of his lastest. still something new - different than other hard stuff around like mills and all the detroit boys. surgeon proves he can take on the luftewaffe

Good, but a little obtuse.......1998-12-22

This is good solid techno, but its like the man said..."Techno's not going anywhere. It's a feeling..." Still, very well-produced and will make your brain do funny things in the dark

detroit techno.......1998-11-25

if you like detroit techno, here's one for you. that's all i can say

Average customer rating:

Basic Tribal Pattern
Mekkanikka
Manufacturer: Efa Imports
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000AN1BD
Release Date: 2003-09-23

Tracks:

Dr. Is In
Ancient's Cult
Walks of Life
War (What Is It Good For?)
Solo Mission
Mind
Question Authority
Out There
Basic Tribal Pattern [Sid Mix]

Average customer rating:

Album

Manufacturer: B.A.M.H
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000CA964O
Release Date: 2002-07-23

Tracks:

Shall We Dance?
Life in Space (Out of Control)
Morning Rush
Night Drive
Guitar Maniac
Provocative
Cosmic Love
Move Your Feet

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Basic Techno, Vol. 2
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Omnisonus
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ASIN: B000005ND7
Release Date: 1997-07-01

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Basic Techno
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Wotre Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005SV3
Release Date: 1996-11-12

Tracks:

Smooth Landing
Eniac - Octave One
Metaphor
Q 1.1
Axion - Sterac
Light's Forces - Oxo
Dance Force 909
Turbulence - Philippe Anselm
Cybercore
Open Minded - Ralphie Dee
Interpheron [Dave Clarke's Deconstructured Remix] - X-313
Set It Off - David Paxton
Grey - Joey Beltram
Zig Zag [Cy Locke- Peter Ford Remix] - DJ Sonic

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