5/29/2023 0 Comments Liquid rhythm collection review![]() Abandoning the 4/4 (or the 2/4) feels like an unnecessary provocation- especially coming from a disco and house legend. breaks the unity of what otherwise would have been the year's best comedown albums with a drum'n'bass roller I think this is what they call "liquid" d'n'b, but the effect is about as soothing as ice cubes thrust down your collar. Their tricks are dead simple, but you won't find music produced more subtly or generously. Chain Reaction artists Substance and Hallucinator- both also mostly inactive for years- and Basic Channel themselves offer more traditionally reggaefied versions all ping and crackle and gently sloping skank, this is reggae from an ambient junkie's perspective, the sound of stretching out and wrapping yourself in a cocoon of filtered delay. Vainqueur, one of Basic Channel sublabel Chain Reaction's best artists, breaks a half-decade's silence with the blissful lapping of digital whitecaps laid over a pulse so steady it seems to come from the earth's core itself- in other words, exactly what he's always done, and praise Jah for it. Unsurprisingly, the most predictable versions come from within the Basic Channel camp itself- although in no way should "predictable" be read pejoratively. Instead, See Mi Yah Remixes, featuring reworks of a number of tracks originally released on 7" in 2005 and later compiled as See Mi Yah, is deliciously eccentric: At once an homage to Basic Channel's dubwise legacy and a repudiation of reflexive brow-furrowing, it's also, in part, a welcome return to the dance floor. So a remix compendium could have been tedious business Rhythm & Sound have basically been remixing themselves from the beginning. But the sheer volume of the stuff, every record a version of a version of a variation, can feel like a glut. It is, without a doubt, a kind of purist's music, approaching every cut as though trying to fashion, once and for all, the Ideal Dub Side it's also all pretty great, and occasionally exquisite. Hilaire (aka Tikiman), Cornel Campbell, and the Chosen Brothers, who croon and mutter, alternatingly devotional and simply stoned, as though dancehall and gun talk never happened. Each effort features vocal performances from singers like Paul St. In recent years, Ernestus and Von Oswald have largely backed away from techno, turning their attentions to reissues of classic dub and a pair of new projects, Rhythm & Sound and Burial Mix, that approximate the sound of vintage dub reggae via drum machines, cool analog synths (or their virtual counterparts), and extensive effects. The Berlin duo (Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald) and its eponymous label were among the earliest German outfits to interface with Detroit techno's first generation its fame came from steadily whittling down house and techno to unprecedented degrees of minimalism while making explicit the links between techno and dub reggae. Few of techno's names are as feted- and rightly so- as Basic Channel.
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