ABOUT THIS ITEM

Deadbeat deliver a mix CD inspired by the techno sounds eminating from Berlin in the early 90s - a cold, reverberant thrum. The pulse of dub reggae running through Japanese-built machinery, filters frothing; the room tone suggestive of nothing so much as the untold empty structures in the recently re-unified city, walls trembling with the sound of techno bubbling up through the pipes below. Every building a subwoofer connected via subterranean conduit. We're talking about Basic Channel, of course, without whom none of the music on this mix would have been possible. It's true that BC's Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald are directly responsible for only three tracks here (Basic Channel's "Quadrant Dub, Maurizio's "M6” and Rhythm & Sound's "Mango Walk"), but their influence stretches beyond those, beyond even their immediate circle (represented here by Basic Channel / Chain Reaction collaborators Various Artists, Monolake, and Substance and Vainqueur). Basic Channel's influence runs, like a blood transfusion, through virtually every sound on this recording. But this isn't a Basic Channel mix. It's also not a dub-techno survey. Twelve of the 19 tracks were recorded in the past two years, tilting the selection too far towards the present to serve as a comprehensive retrospective. Deadbeat's mix is a contour map of that delta as it lies today, in slow flux.

01. Deadbeat - As We Conquer (09 Edit)
02. Various Artists - No. 3 (debit)
03. DeepChord - Grandbend
04. Basic Channel - Quadrant Dub I
05. Pendle Coven - Exigen
06. Deadbeat - Port Of Rix
07. MLZ - Dark Days
08. Quantec - Electromagnetic Pulse
09. Marko Furstenberg - Site 312
10. Monolake - Static
11. Deadbeat - Magnetic North
12. 2562 - Redux
13. Monolake - Sepia
14. Rhythm And Sound - Mango Drive
15. Intrusion - Tswana Dub (Phase90 Restructure)
16. Mikkel Metal - Stephan
17. Maurizio - M06A
18. Substance & Vainqueur - Reverberation
19. Deadbeat - Deep Structure