Dub Techno Underground

FANTASTiC | March 28 2017 | 480 MB

WAV MiDi ABLETON PROJECT

In the early 1990s, producers Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus formed Basic Channel, a duo credited for defining dub techno. Another label, Rhythm & Sound, was started by Oswald and Ernestus and focused strictly on dub techno, unlike Chain Reaction. This is just a small hint of the prestige of this musical genre.  In addition to making the presence of minimalism commonplace in the techno scene, they also incorporated delay effects that were recurrent in dub music. This characteristic sound of the Berlin underground movement became a reference icon of the vanguard sound for clubs. The best tracks in the dub techno style do what little it does amazingly, in that “every element in the mix is given breathing space and, accordingly, takes on a sense of the organic.