Tag: Dubtechno

“Acid dubs” was my attempt to join Rolands TB-303 and Dubtechno. It was the final techno release on switzerland based realaudio.ch netlabel (rest in peace).

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rktic from Hamburg (.de) sharpened his knives and cut a bunch of very fine tunes for his comeback. Back in 2001 he released the legendary “Northern Lights” in the first days of the thinner.cc netlabel.It was brilliantly remixed and released on cd some months later.

Meanwhilst Ronny Pries’s activities focussed on his labels rohformat.de and .schleudertrauma. , releasing under various pseudonymes, and last but not least his brilliant demo-mixes which are officially delivered with Native Instruments DJ-software Traktor and Final Scratch.

His involvement in ‘Bass Line‘ by Audiorealism.se, the developer of the real TB-303 emulation, inspired him to create a journey through his acidic side. All aspects of the so called “silver-box” are enlightened: from the deep and rough side (space intro, exit) to more elektro oriented grooves (313cruiser) over to pushing and mellow basslines (negative matter, orbicle) – keeping it dubby troughout the whole release.

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The free, CC-licensed tracks are still available from archive.org. Of course, you can add them to your last.fm collection as well.

After sending around parts from two tracks each Marko and i ended up with this four tracker. Tidenhub and Trockendock were pre- produced by him and finished by me, Elbwärts and Südschleuse vice versa. » read on!

The debut release of my project “rktic” for the Thinner netlabel and furthermore my first excursion into dubtechno released back in 2001. The album was lateron remixed by Marko Fürstenberg, Blamstrain, Digitalverein… and released as limited CDR.

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The 70 minute journey begins with the short intro “Geiger Radio“. There isn’t much to say about it so we begin with the track “Spaces In Spaces“. Chilly pads, weird sounds makes this a lovely soundscape, drums are added gradually and makes this 15 minute long track a nice and soft journey. Very impressing!

Next track is “Riding The Pipeline” that begins with reverbed industry noises, bassdrum and some bass. More drums are added gradually and the delayed “stabs” is excellent. It feels like you are standing at the tundra near a factory and listening to the track.

The fourth track, “the Opposite of” begins with a sneaking bassline that becomes stronger and stronger, fx builds upp the feeling of the track and after some time the bassdrum and other drums arrives. The bassline continues to filters up and down. Another great track!

The next track, all 14 minutes of it, “A walk on deep snow“, is a journey with beautiful pad, lovely bassounds and lovely delayed fx. Its definatly one of the best tracks i’ve heard in a long time! It’s hard to describe how it sounds but its overwhelming good.

The sixth and the last track is also the longest. 20 minutes and 42 seconds long! The track is called “Evolving North” and its recorded live! It contains clicks, pads, drums, fx. Pretty hard to describe the track but its fits very good into this album!

The whole album has everything you want… clicky stuff, spacy stuff, cold stuff, chilly stuff… The title of the album really fits, this is really the “Northern Lights“.

Released under a CC-license and still available as free download from Thinner.cc