# The 8 Best Dub Techno Tracks of All Time

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:** Berlin, Germany, 1993
- **Tempo:** 120–130 BPM
- **Also known as:** basic channel sound, berlin dub, chain reaction
- **Tracks:** 8
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/genre/dub-techno/

## The list

### 1. [Basic Channel](https://waxonia.com/artist/basic-channel/) — [Phylyps Trak](https://waxonia.com/track/basic-channel--phylyps-trak/)

*1993 · Basic Channel*

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.

Also on: [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Basic%20Channel%20Phylyps%20Trak) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=6a4HlgmlMuw)

### 2. [Basic Channel](https://waxonia.com/artist/basic-channel/) — [Quadrant Dub](https://waxonia.com/track/basic-channel--quadrant-dub/)

*1994 · Basic Channel*

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.

Also on: [1994](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-ninety-four/), [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Basic%20Channel%20Quadrant%20Dub) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=APH42GVgUTM)

### 3. [Maurizio](https://waxonia.com/artist/maurizio/) — [M-4.5](https://waxonia.com/track/maurizio--m-4-5/)

*1994 · Maurizio*

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.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Maurizio%20M-4.5) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9KjKTvsNVo8)

### 4. [Porter Ricks](https://waxonia.com/artist/porter-ricks/) — [Port of Call](https://waxonia.com/track/porter-ricks--port-of-call/)

*1996 · Chain Reaction*

Hydraulic, corroded and genuinely oceanic. Thomas Köner brought a sound artist's ear to the format and produced its most physically unsettling record.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Porter%20Ricks%20Port%20of%20Call) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jNqw0ggn1lk)

### 5. [Vainqueur](https://waxonia.com/artist/vainqueur/) — [Lyot](https://waxonia.com/track/vainqueur--lyot/)

*1993 · Chain Reaction*

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.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Vainqueur%20Lyot) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=XOiqVejo4gk)

### 6. [Monolake](https://waxonia.com/artist/monolake/) — [Cyan](https://waxonia.com/track/monolake--cyan/)

*1997 · Chain Reaction*

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.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Monolake%20Cyan) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_qMju5dgcc)

### 7. [Rhythm & Sound featuring Sugar Minott](https://waxonia.com/artist/rhythm-and-sound-featuring-sugar-minott/) — [Never Tell You](https://waxonia.com/track/rhythm-and-sound-featuring-sugar-minott--never-tell-you/)

*2001 · Burial Mix*

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.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Rhythm%20%26%20Sound%20featuring%20Sugar%20Minott%20Never%20Tell%20You) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=E_nCSo3z54Q)

### 8. [Pole](https://waxonia.com/artist/pole/) — [Raum](https://waxonia.com/track/pole--raum/)

*1998 · Kiff SM*

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.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Pole%20Raum) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=27myNkcxEys)

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