20 years of Deep & Dub Techno (must listen gems)

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For all the fans of deep & dub techno music, I have some gems to share. Feel free to share your discoveries in the comments ! I've linked what I believe is top notch deepness, spanning from 1993 to today.

I've been a long fan of the dub techno sound & a e s t h e t i c . If you are new to the genre, here is what you can find on wikipedia about it :

In the early 1990s, producers Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus formed Basic Channel, a duo credited for defining dub techno.In addition to making the presence of minimalism commonplace in the techno scene, they also incorporated delay effects that were recurrent in dub music.They then formed the label Chain Reaction; while still releasing the same type of dub-infused techno that Basic Channel created, such as the track "Cyan I" by Monolake, the label also distributed techno without dub elements, such as Continuous Mode's "Direct Out / Direct Drive". Regardless, what Thump writer Josh Baines described as a "thawing of ice as a sonic aesthetic" that was present in Basic Channel's works before Chain Reaction still remained in all recordings issued under the label

Another label, Rhythm & Sound, was started by Oswald and Ernestus, and focused strictly on dub reggae and dub techno unlike Chain Reaction. The works of Rhythm & Sound featured representations of the sound system culture of Jamaica, the country where dub was formed, as well as authentic elements of the roots of dub. According to Baines, this type of dub techno was "the kind of smoked out dub that's an approximate aural recreation of the effect that incredibly potent mairjuana has on the brain" and "a haunting, haunted, tripped out site of memorial exploration" where "Everything sounds half-remembered, half-there, half-real."

The "clicks and cuts movement" in the 1990s formed by Mille Plateaux, is labeled by Baines as also characterizing dub techno's sound; the label's releases focused on making the same type of dub techno that Basic Channel and their imprints recorded and issued, only much more melodic.The exposure # zof dub techno was then brought over to the United States by Rod Modell with his project Deepchord.

source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dub_techno

I guess I'll start with the track I fell in love at first sight heh 😄

[2007]

It was released on the label Modern Love which is one of the best 00's Dub Tech labels for me.

Let's play some great atmospheric, full of noisy cold sounds, reggae infused Dub Techno. Classic rhythm and sound production.

[2002]

This heavy sub bass wow, love it :

[1998]

Another gem by one member of Basic Channel : Maurizio Von Oswald, one of the genius behind the Dub Techno sound.

[1995]

One a more laidback, wooshy synths, deep chords and ambient side, we have Substance & Vainqueur

[2007]

Here we have this classic minimal sound by Basic Channel, very... hypnotic :)

I've read (can't remember where) that they wanted to deviate from the classic "vertical" structure of songs and have this very repetitive, "horizontal" structure as they said in an interview. It is, for me, one the best example of this sound, released in 1994 ! wow !

[1994]

This is Monolake aka Robert Henke (one of the founder of Ableton). He used to produce this kind of deepness back in the days. Later he choosed a more experimental sound with very detailed sonic production (I recommend his 2009 album Silence)