{
  "slug": "dub-techno",
  "name": "Dub Techno",
  "aliases": [
    "basic channel sound",
    "berlin dub",
    "chain reaction"
  ],
  "description": "Detroit techno played through a Kingston mixing desk in a Berlin basement. From 1993 a handful of producers reduced the music to a chord stab, a delay and an enormous amount of tape hiss, and found that almost nothing was enough.",
  "origin": {
    "place": "Berlin, Germany",
    "year": 1993
  },
  "lineage": [
    {
      "genre": "detroit-techno",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/detroit-techno/",
      "inherited": "The chords and the reverence. Basic Channel licensed and pressed Detroit records before making their own, and the melancholy stab they built a label on is straight off a Transmat twelve-inch."
    },
    {
      "genre": "dub",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/dub/",
      "inherited": "The signal path. Everything is a send: the chord exists only as its own echo, the mix is performed rather than arranged, and the noise floor is treated as an instrument exactly as King Tubby treated it."
    }
  ],
  "bpm": {
    "min": 120,
    "max": 130
  },
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/dub-techno/",
  "trackCount": 8,
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      "rank": 1,
      "trackKey": "basic-channel--phylyps-trak",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/basic-channel--phylyps-trak/",
      "title": "Phylyps Trak",
      "artist": "Basic Channel",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/basic-channel/",
      "year": 1993,
      "label": "Basic Channel",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "A single chord, a filter and eleven minutes. Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus establish that a techno record can consist almost entirely of the space around its own decay.",
      "alsoOn": [
        {
          "kind": "curator",
          "slug": "the-desk-the-hundred",
          "name": "The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/"
        }
      ],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Basic%20Channel%20Phylyps%20Trak",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=6a4HlgmlMuw",
          "exact": true
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "trackKey": "basic-channel--quadrant-dub",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/basic-channel--quadrant-dub/",
      "title": "Quadrant Dub",
      "artist": "Basic Channel",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/basic-channel/",
      "year": 1994,
      "label": "Basic Channel",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The purest statement of the method — the rhythm dissolves into delay returns and never quite reassembles. Thirty years on it still sounds like it was mastered underwater on purpose.",
      "alsoOn": [
        {
          "kind": "curator",
          "slug": "nineteen-ninety-four",
          "name": "1994",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-ninety-four/"
        },
        {
          "kind": "curator",
          "slug": "the-desk-the-hundred",
          "name": "The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/"
        }
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Basic%20Channel%20Quadrant%20Dub",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=APH42GVgUTM",
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        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "trackKey": "maurizio--m-4-5",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/maurizio--m-4-5/",
      "title": "M-4.5",
      "artist": "Maurizio",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/maurizio/",
      "year": 1994,
      "label": "Maurizio",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The same people, the warmer alias, and the closest this music comes to a dancefloor tool. Restraint used as a groove rather than as a refusal.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Maurizio%20M-4.5",
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        },
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          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9KjKTvsNVo8",
          "exact": true
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      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "trackKey": "porter-ricks--port-of-call",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/porter-ricks--port-of-call/",
      "title": "Port of Call",
      "artist": "Porter Ricks",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/porter-ricks/",
      "year": 1996,
      "label": "Chain Reaction",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Hydraulic, corroded and genuinely oceanic. Thomas Köner brought a sound artist's ear to the format and produced its most physically unsettling record.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Porter%20Ricks%20Port%20of%20Call",
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        },
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          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jNqw0ggn1lk",
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      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "trackKey": "vainqueur--lyot",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/vainqueur--lyot/",
      "title": "Lyot",
      "artist": "Vainqueur",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/vainqueur/",
      "year": 1993,
      "label": "Chain Reaction",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Nine minutes of one chord breathing. The record that demonstrated the style could be handed to somebody else and survive intact, which is what turned a studio into a school.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Vainqueur%20Lyot",
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          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=XOiqVejo4gk",
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      }
    },
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      "rank": 6,
      "trackKey": "monolake--cyan",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/monolake--cyan/",
      "title": "Cyan",
      "artist": "Monolake",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/monolake/",
      "year": 1997,
      "label": "Chain Reaction",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Robert Henke and Gerhard Behles making the label's most precise record, while writing the software that became Ableton Live. The tools and the music came out of the same room.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Monolake%20Cyan",
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        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
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          "exact": true
        }
      }
    },
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      "rank": 7,
      "trackKey": "rhythm-and-sound-featuring-sugar-minott--never-tell-you",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/rhythm-and-sound-featuring-sugar-minott--never-tell-you/",
      "title": "Never Tell You",
      "artist": "Rhythm & Sound featuring Sugar Minott",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/rhythm-and-sound-featuring-sugar-minott/",
      "year": 2001,
      "label": "Burial Mix",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The circle closes: the Berliners hire actual Jamaican vocalists and cut the results to dubplate. Not a techno record with reggae on it — a reggae record made by techno producers.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Rhythm%20%26%20Sound%20featuring%20Sugar%20Minott%20Never%20Tell%20You",
          "exact": false
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          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=E_nCSo3z54Q",
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        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 8,
      "trackKey": "pole--raum",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/pole--raum/",
      "title": "Raum",
      "artist": "Pole",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/pole/",
      "year": 1998,
      "label": "Kiff SM",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Stefan Betke built a career on the crackle of a broken Waldorf filter. Dub technique applied to a fault, and the most convincing case that the noise was always the subject.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Pole%20Raum",
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        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=27myNkcxEys",
          "exact": true
        }
      }
    }
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}