Artist: Basic Channel
Genre(s):
Techno
Discography:
Basic Channel 08
Year: 1994
Tracks: 3
Basic Channel has become synonymous with a brand of stripped, ultra-minimal techno near destitute of melodic kernel or purport. Both creative person and tag, Basic Channel was constituted by Berlin-based producers Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald (aka Maurizio) in 1993, and the pair have unhurriedly developed a slender but idolised catalogue of releases under such names as Cyrus, Phylyps, q1.1, Quadrant, Octagon, and Radiance -- working a single-minded concept of most featureless machine music ("nigh," of course of study, existence the key to the music's success). Like many German techno artists and labels (Tresor, Studio 1, Mike Ink), Basic Channel harbors a fear for early Chicago blistering and house and first-wave Detroit techno, the latter of which in particular is manifested in Mark and Moritz's ultraconservatism with deference to round and composition. Releasing under a twelve 12-inches since their origin (a few of them, however, nearing album length), Basic Channel issued their first base CD-release in 1996 (the group otherwise stay on staunch vinyl addicts -- they even assembled their own pressing readiness) in 1996. Titled just Basic Channel, the disk was a continuously mixed taste-tester of their 12-inch releases, which proceed to dribble Basic Channel is one in a network of artists and labels too including Thomas Koner/Porter Ricks, the Chain Reaction label (more than avant experimental techno), M (Moritz's personal label and home to his Maurizio releases), the Main Street label (pop house), and Imbalance (a CD-only data-based music label).
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