In this week’s edition a famous dub duo from Berlin is featured: Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald. The two established their names in the nineties under their Basic Channel alias which had a huge influence on the development of techno, dub, and minimal. Through Basic Channel and the subsequent projects that the duo initiated they achieved a legendary status for dub (techno) devotees. The duo has continuously innovated electronic music through several aliases. One of them you can check out below: Rhythm & Sound.

Next to the aforementioned Basic Channel alter ego, Ernestus and Von Oswald have operated behind several aliases during the last twenty years. Examples are Quadrant, Maurizio, and Rhythm & Sound. Although each of these projects was heavily influenced by dub reggae esthetics, they really fused dub-reggea and electronic music with this last project. Moving away from dancefloor oriented sounds and revisiting the classic reggae dub sound, they explored the depths of dub in a series of releases.

This series of 10 inch records on the label Burial Mix featured dub-heavy reggae with vocalist such as Paul St. Hilaire, Sugar Minott and Cornell Campbell. With their last album ‘See Mi Yah’, released in 2005, the duo also delivered a traditional ‘one-riddim’ reggae album with one instrumental and ten vocal versions, and explored reverb- and delay-filled electronic depths.

These are also the depths that are featured in this 2,5 hour mix. Expect a string of classic and contemporary reggae-dub sounds full of deep, filtered, delayed and reverberant spaces. Dub dub dub dub dub dub dub!

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