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Basic Channel

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Moritz von Oswald & Mark Ernestus
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Discography

Releases:
Lyot Rmx (5 versions)   Basic Channel 1993
Phylyps Trak (7 versions)   Basic Channel 1993
Q 1.1 (4 versions)   Basic Channel 1993
Octagon / Octaedre (4 versions)   Basic Channel 1994
Phylyps Trak II (5 versions)   Basic Channel 1994
Quadrant Dub (6 versions)   Basic Channel 1994
Radiance (4 versions)   Basic Channel 1994
BCD (Comp) (4 versions)   Basic Channel 1995
BCD-2 (CD, Comp, Dig)   Basic Channel 2008
Remixes:
Throw / Remake (Basic Reshape) (7 versions) Remake (Basic Reshape) Planet E 1994
State Of The Art 3 (CD) Remake (Basic Reshape) Groove Kissing 1995
Techno Ambient Vol. 3 - The New Eclipse (CD, Comp, Mixed) Remake (Basic Reshape) Fairway Record 1995
Essential Underground Vol. 03: Berlin / Detroit (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) The Climax (Basic Chan... DJ-sets.com 2001
The Climax (3 versions) The Climax (Basic Resh... Planet E 2001
The State Of E:Motion Vol. 9 (2 versions) The Climax (Basic Chan... E:Motion ... 2001
Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks (Comp) (2 versions) The Climax (Basic Resh... Tresor 2002
VIRTU™ See Level (2xCD) New Day (Club Vocal Mix) Virtu 2003
Basic Reshape (3 versions)   Basic Channel 2004
Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi. _03 (CD, Comp, Mixed) See Mi Version (Basic ... Soma Quality Recordings 2006
See Mi Yah (Remixes #4) (12") See Mi Version (Basic ... Burial Mix 2006
See Mi Yah (Remixes) (CD, Comp) See Mi Version (Basic ... Burial Mix 2006
Trax Hors Série #10 : Spécial Clubbing (CD, Smplr, Mixed, Car) See Mi Version (Basic ... Trax Sampler 2006
Balance 014 (2xCD, Mixed, Comp) Remake (Basic Reshape) EQ Recordings 2009
RA.153 (File, MP3, Mixed, Pod) See Mi Version (Basic ... Resident Advisor 2009
State Of The Art - A Collection Of New Ambient (Part 3&4) (2xCD, Album, Comp) Remake (Basic Reshape) PIAS Holland, Groove Kissing  
Production:
DJ's Take Control - Volume 2 (3xLP, Comp) New Day One Records 1995
Tresor 2000 - Compilation Vol. 8 (CD) New Day (Dub) Tresor 2000
Il Était Une Fois Astropolis - 1995 / 2000 (CD, Mixed, Comp, Dig) Lyot Human 2001
Lounge Electrique Vol. 4 - The ProVinyl Magic Session (CD, Comp, Mixed, Dig) M-6 Caramelle Recordings, ZYX Music 2002
Coast 2 Coast - Âme LP01 (2x12") Poor People Must Work ... NRK Sound Division 2007
Appears On:
Tresor 100 (Tresor Compilation Vol. 6) (CD, Comp) Octaedre Tresor 1998
DE9 | Transitions (Comp) (2 versions) M7/B (Unreleased Mix) NovaMute 2005
Tracks Appear On:
Techno Rave Master Vol. 2 (CD) Octagon Gravit Records 1994
Straight Up Detroit Shit Volume 5 (CD, Mixed, Comp) Phylyps Trak / Rock Th... Electrofunk Records 1998
Tresor 100 (Tresor Compilation Vol. 6) (CD, Comp) Octaedre Tresor 1998
DE9 | Closer To The Edit (Comp) (6 versions) Octagon, Octagon M_nus ... 2001
DE9 | Closer To The Edit (Parts) (Comp) (2 versions) Octagon, Octagon M_nus ... 2001
Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks (Comp) (2 versions) Mutism, Radiance III, ... Tresor 2002
DJ Mix 1/2 [Mix.Sound.Space] (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) Phylyps Trak II, Phyly... Dream Machine, Torema Records 2002
Groovetechnology v1.3 (Comp) (4 versions) Q1.1 (1A) Studio !K7 ... 2002
Live At Sónar (CD) Q1.1 SonarMusic 2003
How To Kill The DJ [Part Two] (Comp) (3 versions) Phylyps Trak II Kill The DJ Records 2004
Vulture Culture Mix (CDr, Mixed, Promo) Phylyps Trak Transparent 2004
City To City (CD, Comp, Mixed + CD, Comp) Phylyps Trak Volume 1 BBE 2005
Cute & Cult (Comp) (2 versions) Phylyps Trak II Different ... 2005
On Monoïd (CD, Mixed, Comp) Phylyps Trak II Monoïd 2005
DE9 | Combined (2xCD, Mixed, Comp) Octagon, Octagon Third Ear (2), M_nus 2006
Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi. _03 (CD, Comp, Mixed) Radiance I Soma Quality Recordings 2006
Talvipäiväntasaus (CDr, Mixed) BC 08 Katusea 2006
Fabric 32 (CD, Comp, Mixed, Met) Phylyps Trak II/II Fabric (London) 2007
In The House (2xCD, Mixed, Comp + CD, Comp) Phylyps Trak II / II ITH Records 2007
RA.070 (File, MP3, Mixed, Pod) Phylypstrack II Resident Advisor 2007
Balance 014 (2xCD, Mixed, Comp) Q 1.2 EQ Recordings 2009
Ten Years Cocoon Ibiza (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) Mutism, Mutism Cocoon Recordings 2009
Live At Sónar (CD, Mixed, Comp, Promo) Q1.1 SonarMusic  
Unofficial Releases:
Elektion Propaganda (CD, Mixed, Unofficial) Phylps Base Track Rabbit Suppers 2004
XXX (12", W/Lbl, Ltd) Arch Trak Remerge Records 2008
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Review by dexterfeng Jan 03, 2009
In late 1993, mysterious records of mind bending repetitive and body bashing beauty and length when played with the proper amount of sound to push them. Plain sleeved records with mysterious graphics pressed in Detroit, but made in Germany by two guys from Berlin who liked faceless techno bollocks and took it to the nth degree in a variety of shapes all aimed towards face eating repetition and stretching the groove into a place that opened a rich and vast new territory in music for the dance floor and sound equally German as at was Midwestern with its fondness for large walls of sound and dancing in dark and dirty disused warehouses until the sun came up.
These records found a perfect home in midwestern rave culture. These records also gave birth to minimal. While Dan Bell was reducing sound to the basic blocks. Basic Channel presented a music that was all there and the music at first did not change and one part of the record more or less was like the other. The parts modulate and shift into a different shape. It was a holographic techno. A study to reach its most beautiful in branches like Quadrant and radiant and most eat your brain in Cyrus.
The love for dirty sand in the mixing board dub inevitably begin tearing the density apart and as a result. Basic Channel as a label closed, but not before laying the foundation for dub techno and a more holographic, more functional techno, exploring M and Main Street and laying the foundation for Chain Reaction.
These records are holy grail and the blueprint for a new form of techno made for the dj and for large amounts of sound to shake every part of the body with.
Review by Zauberberg Nov 13, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
Authors of the most genuine electronic sound.
As an older listener, I was in position to watch how electronic music scene grows and develops itself into several distinguished styles, all coming up from the same root - and that particular root was Basic Channel. Everything is here: ambient, dub, minimal, house, techno, heavy experimentation... These people are condemned to be untouchable and unrepeatable.
Listen to what you want, learn what you can - Basic Channel is the beginning of contemporary music.
Review by elisirr May 18, 2005 (edited over 4 years ago)
Haven’t you ask yourselves like never a simple drummer of a complex from the name "Palais Schaumburg" can create a musical kind, from which all drift and which all part?
Sure it is that in this evolutionistic process, Moritz Von Oswald has not been found alone, but he has been taken advantage of the collaboration of an other myth-genius like Mark Ernestus.
From the series, "God makes them and then it couples them".
Therefore, analyzing the case, we find ourselves in the presence of two geniuses, in the presence of the historical sonorous sources.
The sound leaves from they 'couse they created the sound.
They have created the Dub.
They have created the Minimal.
They have created the Dubby, techno or house that it is.
And like if it were not enough, they are also tries in a plan that it sees to fill up the Reggae of a new style, that one they for the note.
Many people could reproach to me the rehearse, the monotony of their musical productions.
Nothing more mistaken.
To these persons I would answer saying if in the course of the time the artists can change tastes altering their kind or if not modify it based on their experiences of life, this pair is therefore remained faithful to theirs begins them plan that therefore high fidelity could be transform in a religious faith.
Sure it is that dedicating itself to the reggae they are not moves from the dubby, but they are enters in a more spiritual context more mystic, because we must say it, the reggae is that.
Sung from fierce people who have one therefore high tradition and inner force...
But I don’t want to dwell on this kind, I’m not the more suitable subject in order to make it.
I want instead continue to speak about the Basic Channel.
Of the experimenters.
Of the inventors.
Of the creators.
But do you become account in that kingdom/dimension they drags you with their music?
Do you know the effects of such sounds?
Naturally all benefits for our spirit.
Gentlemen, I cannot be technical speaking about this pair, I cannot compare them to nobody.
How is possible to compare a painter like Picasso to a Van Gogh?
One watches them and enough, one admires them and enough, one contemplates them and enough.
Here, you must limited to listen all their pieces and prayed so that their productions cannot be never get exhausted.
Because if exists a more terrible punishment than indifference, this is the oblivion.
The absolute forgetfulness.
But they will not never come forget even if tomorrow they had to be tired and never more to produce.
Could you forget a God?
Creators of music.

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