The Basic Channel maestro takes on Konono. So brawling and bad-minded, dense and intense, and musically expert, it amounts to a ritual humiliation of the genre Dub Techno.
Honest Jon’s presents Mark Ernestus from Rhythm And Sound spinning 45s alongside DJ Pete from Substance and Scion Versions, with a live set from Sleeparchive.
‘Pure machine soul for late-night heads.’
A re-rub of classic Digital Mystikz to celebrate Ancient Monarchy’s fifth release already, laced with oblique, Autechre-style melodiousness, and bass-bin armageddon. Next up, Sweet Sixteen is psychedelic techno-not-techno for early-morning dancefloors, complete with a sleazy EBM/New Beat dub by DJ October.
Classic, rampers, dread, Berlin techno; Basic Channel style.
Judge No Sympathy in session.
All four Mohems so far… scorchers.
Swingeing dubwise techno. Recess is sixteen minutes long.
Terrific; hotly recommended.
Another round of magnificent, epic dubwise techno. Steely and spare but deftly detailed and immersive; uncoiling over fifteen minutes each side. Berliner to the bone.
Zarko Komar aka Feloneezy winging in from Belgrade — by way of Hyperdub — with an EP of hypnotic psychedelia.
Four characteristically intimate, steppers blends of jungle and juke, unfurling into intervals of dub and jazz; axis as nexus, threaded with field recordings, startlingly dotted with song.
Check it out.
Championed by Jay-Z and Kanye West, the Chicagoan MC finally makes his full-length debut.
The Chain Reaction classic.