Dub Techno
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
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Number 1: 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
Number 2: 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, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Number 4: 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.
Number 7: Rhythm & 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.