Essential listening for those seeking the roots of minimal techno and the blueprint for countless experimental genres that followed. The story of Basic Channel reads like a tall tale of underground dance music. They invented dub techno. Through Hard Wax, cofounder Mark Ernestus brought Detroit and Chicago records to Berlin. Their near-flawless body of work, encompassing a universe of labels including Chain Reaction, M-Series, Burial Mix, Main Street Records and Rhythm & Sound, speaks for itself. And yet, Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald don't talk much about the label they founded 25 years ago, so their legacy remains tantalizingly obscure. (Resident Advisor, 2018) This mix celebrates not only their legacy, but also the artists who continue to carry the Basic Channel-style dub techno torch today.
