# Basic Channel — Quadrant Dub

Basic Channel’s Quadrant Dub (1994) appears on 3 of our lists — Dub Techno, 1994, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, highest at No. 2 in Dub Techno. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1994
- **Label:** Basic Channel
- **On:** Dub Techno, 1994, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29
- **Artist:** [Basic Channel](https://waxonia.com/artist/basic-channel/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/basic-channel--quadrant-dub/

## What 3 lists say

### No. 2 in [Dub Techno](https://waxonia.com/genre/dub-techno/)

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.

### Picked by [1994](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-ninety-four/)

Two Berliners running techno through dub's mixing desk and inventing a genre almost as a side effect. Nothing about it sounds like a founding document, which is usually how founding documents sound at the time.

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

The rhythm dissolves into delay returns and never quite reassembles. Thirty years on it still sounds mastered underwater, deliberately.

## Listen

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

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