Narrated by Altstadt Echo, for Dub Monitor

Very Much WIP research article

Currently reading the books listed in here somewhere

Dub

Jamaica
dates back to late 1960s and early 70s
instrumental remixes of reggae tracks
use of delay and reverb as the primary effect to fill out the space left out by cutting the vocals
the first dub reggae track was by accident, sound guy needed to press a dub plate for a gig, forgot the vocals, and the crowd loved it anyway
mixer as an instrument, used to create those effects, and therefore means tracks were often recorded live. this would mean that releases could come with multiple versions/takes of essentially the same track
Check out King Tubby and Lee scratch Perry
book: Remixology tracing the dub diaspora

Some handpicked tracks to sample

dubreggae

Love the very slight, but obvious distortion in this tune.

dubreggae

Techno

USA - Bellville or Detroit Michigan
dates back to 1980s
Juan Atkins is credited with inventing techno, with kraftwerk influence of course
was also very popular in Berlin, as it was going through its own music revolution. the fall of the Berlin wall meant there were lots of empty spaces to use as pop-up venues or clubs
- they were importing these sounds from Detroit to play at these underground venues
Books:
- Techno rebels - covers history of the detroit scene
- Der Klang der Familie: Berlin, techno and the fall of the wall

Book clips: Techno rebels

covers history of the detroit scene

But techno? Well, of course we know it really comes from Detroit and that its pioneers were Derrick May, Juan Atkins, and Kevin Saunderson. Beyond that is a hinterland of conjecture and supposition.

A Detroit insider, Sicko detailed the primary influence of DJs and producers like the Electrifying Mojo, Ken Collier, The Wizard, and Richard Davis and took us into a world of high school parties, electronic bleepery, and question- able Italian fashions that was a world apart from anything happening in New York or Los Angeles.

[ ] (For a glimpse of this era, go to YouTube and type in “Sharevari” and “The Scene,” the local TV dance show.)

Techno spread to more countries and cultures faster than any music genre in recent history. In Japan, techno artist Ken Ishii was commissioned to write the opening and closing themes for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.

The intro- duction to Boyle’s 1994 film Shallow Grave and the pivotal emotional finish of his 1996 film Trainspotting feature the music of Leftfield and Underworld, respectively.

Chemical Brothers’ 1995 album Exit Planet Dust

[ ] What did early fatboy slim sound like? can you hear the rock n roll described there?

Dub Techno

Percussionist Moritz Von Oswald moved from Hamburg to Berlin, to get involved in the techno scene there, & met Mark Ernestus who'd just opened a record store. Hardwax 1989, a month after the fall of the Berlin wall

Maurizio 1992 to make minimal techno together
Basic Channel 1993 is what eventually combined the sound of dubs, and late 80s & 90s detroit techno. becoming the first set of people to introduce the sound
no one called it dub techno at the time. that was first spotted in a 2001 issue of the wire that covered Jan Jelinek Loop Jazz finding records (one of my hall of fame records), and Anima by Vladislav Delay

Magazine: the wire, founded in 1982, & one of the first magazines to cover electronic music in much depth, regularly

This sound wasn't just popular in Berlin, almost instantaneously, you had US artists like Deepchord, Convextion, & Soul Tech coming out with similar stuff. Canada had Deadbeat, Japan has Shinichi Atobe & Matrix This sound didn't need to be marketed

Record label, Chain Reaction, was founded by Basic Channel in the 2nd half of the 90s, and brought together the best of sounds in this sub-genre from around the world. This was one of the most important sources of Dub techno at the time.

Mike Huckaby, a deep house artist, had some very solid sounding dub techno. At some point, artists from other genres started contributing to the dub techno space. Clicks & cuts for instance, is a sound that started developing alongside of dub techno; eg Pole, & Vladislav Delay, who were directly related to Basic Channel as they'd worked together in the past.

Then we had artists like GAS, who existed in a gray area, depending on who you asked, you'd get a different answer to the question "what genre is this?". With sounds of ambient, ambient techno, dub techno etc.

Most full length dub techno albums, even today, have a big percentage of ambient music. the two genres just play well together.

on Basic Channel

Mark & Moritz quickly moved on from Basic Channel.

Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction released early works of Fluxion, Monolake, Porter Rix, Vladislav Delay, Substance, Ricardo Villalobos, and many more.

Burial Mix project

Rhythm & Sound Project

Echochord

Founded 2001 in Copenhagen by Kenneth Christiansen

Released both dancefloor friendly dub techno, and more spacious and ambient sounding stuff.

Silent season

Started as a net label.

Thinner

Another net label

Hardware: Space Echo

The hardware didn'r really matter, this was a great tool but was never essentially

they stopped being produced in 1990,prices naturally started going up, and they stopped being viewed as a requirement/pre-requisite to making dub techno

DJ from Russia

Andrey Pushkarev. He's got some club leaning stuff, and some ambient inspired stuff too

Topdown Dialectic

One of the artists representing more recent, and exploratory dub techno, who's released on the label peak oil. The same label with that Hoavi album I had on repeat for a while.

The History of Dub Techno