Tracklist
1. Sully - It’s Your Love - Keysound Recordings
2. George Fitzgerald - Silhouette - Aus Music
3. Cdbl - I Need You (Kidnap Kid Remix) - Squelch and Clap
4. Albert - Can’t Lie Still - Studio Rockers
5. Canblaster - Clockworks - Nightshifters
6. Julio Bashmore - Battle For Middle You - PMR Records
7. Presk & Cinnaman - Sweat (Jon Convex Remix) - Audio Culture
8. Instra:Mental - 8 - Nonplus Records
9. Bassline - Falsehood - Dirtybird
10. Jon Convex - Closer - Convex Industries
11. Asusu - Togetherness - Immerse Records
12. Cloak & Dagger - In The Cut - Immerse Records
13. Ghostek - Easy Changes - Shipwrec
The new comer Stiver recorded this podcast for us. We are gonna release a release from him.
Techno isn’t a genre that has birthed many consistent albums, and the dub techno subgenre even less so, but one indisputable classic is Porter Ricks’ debut ‘Biokinetics’. Originally issued on the legendary Basic Channel sub-label Chain Reaction in 1996 following a trio of 12”s, ‘Biokinetics’ was the first of the label’s album releases, and still stands as its crowning achievement. The duo was made up of dark ambient pioneer Thomas Koner and sound engineer Andy Mellwig, and between them they re-framed the techno sound, imbuing the spacious ambience pioneered by label bosses Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald with a frosty, isolated experimental bent, and combining it with the sort of haunted minimalism of early Plastikman.
What separated ‘Biokinetics’ from other albums at the time was its unwavering narrative – the exact sound has been interpreted countless times since, but the immersive qualities of this singular record have rarely been touched. Maybe it is down to the silvery underwater concept that ties each track together – the bubbling pads, sub-aquatic basses and muffled kick drums. But as with any great album, it’s hard to exactly put your finger on what makes it a classic. Simply put ‘Biokinetics’ is one of the most important records in the genre, and it’s pleasure for us to make it available to the world once more.
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