Also available on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWTVByZplIA

As I often play these records alongside newer releases, I realized most of those classics were more than 25 years old, I thought of compiling them together to show where dub tech comes from and how timeless most of these tracks are...Take a record like Round Four, discovered for a lot of people like me on Daniel Bell's mix (2000) The button down mind of Daniel Bell. More than 25 years onwards, you can look at a record like this, alongside Baby Ford and early Ricardo Villalobos as the blueprint for modern minimal and dubby electronic music, but that would imply that those genres later improved upon the overall formula. In reality, few got even close to as good as this. The origins of a genre is often more important than newer releases.  ''If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going...''  (Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight)

The Beginning Of The Voyage (Heart Chakra)
Monolake - Amazon (1999) / Interstate /  Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music
Konrad Black - White Cigarettes (2002) / Two Hundred And Forty Volts Volume 2 / Swayzak recordings 
Burger/Ink - Elvism (1996) / [Las Vegas] / Matador / Kompakt klassiks
Round Four featuring Tikiman - Found A Way (1998) /  Find A Way EP / Main street records 
Maurizio - M06a (1996) / M-6 / Maurizio 
Monolake- Ionized (2001) / Cinemascope / Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music
Monolake & Makam - Mass transit railway (1998) / Hong Kong / Chain reaction
Various Artists - No.8 (1997) /  8 8.5 9 EP / Fat Cat records 
Swayzak - Form Is Emptyness (2001)  / Shape Memory Effect / Force tracks 
Swayzak vs Theorem - Break In At Apartment 205 (1999) /  Break In At Apartment 205 EP / M_nus 
Swayzak - Slave to the Hard Drive (2001) / Shape Memory Effect / Force tracks 
The Kooky Scientist - Nite Glide (1997) / Unpopular Science / Plus 8 
Convextion - Miranda (Original '96 Mix) /  Convextion EP / Matrix
Quadrant - Hyperprism (1993) / Quadrant E.P. / R & S Recordings 
David Alvarado Blue (Dub) (2001) / Blue EP 
G-Man - Quo Vadis (1995) / Swim
Ratio - Early Blow (1998) / Preview EP / Central  
Basic Channel - Radiance long (1994) / Basic channel
B.C. - Weird Vibrations ( 1994 ) /  Stronghold Techno EP / i.t.p. recordings
Basic Channel - Phylyps Trak (1994) / Basic channel 
Bandulu - Running time (1995) / Blanco Y Negro
Vainqueur - Lyot (Maurizio Mix) (1992) / Maurizio 
INFINITI-game one (1994) / Metroplex
Mateo Murphy - Inside out (2002) / Epsilonlab
Fluxion - Vibrant Forms 2 (1999) / Bipolar Defect /  Chain Reaction
Parallel 9 - Quadrus (1996) / Q EP / Prime
Sanasol - Matrix Noise (1997) / Thule records 
Thor - Aliens Don't Boogie (1999) / Æ Recordings
Merv - Dust (1998) / Happiness on a string EP / Dancecop
Ricardo Villalobos - Frank Mueller Melodram /  Perlon  
Ricardo Villalobos - Heike  (Villalobos Mood Mix) (1998) / Heike EP / Lo-fi stereo
In Aeternam Vale - Ultrabase (1993) / Machine À Laver / Ultrabase EP / Minimal Wave

Few notes: Sanasol is Yagya (Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson, Thorhallur Skulason aka Thor), Aliens don't boogie was famously used on Richie Hawtin's Deck, efx & 909 in 1999, Parallel 9 is Steve Rachmad famous Dutch electronic musician aka Sterac, Infiniti is Juan Atkins both he and Moritz von Oswald aka Maurizio remixed each other and collaborated many times in the last 30 years. Vainqueur is René Löwe famous from the Chain Reaction label. The B.C. track isn't Basic channel but a moniker which consists of Robert Leiner (Visions of the past) and Cisco Ferreira (The Advent). G-Man, whose productions were way ahead of its time on Force inc is Gez Varley from L.F.O. one half of it (other was Mark Bell), Quadrant is another moniker used by Basic channel, the EP was released in 1993 on R&S records the legendary Belgium label, and later repressed on Carl Craig's Planet E.

The Origins Of Dub Techno

Audio demo track produced by Le Code, using presets from Lost Note - Ambient Soundscapes II.

https://www.luftrum.com/ambient-soundscapes-2-omnisphere/

Le Code - Lost Note

Audio demo track produced by Equinox Lab, using presets from Lost Note - Ambient Soundscapes II.

https://www.luftrum.com/ambient-soundscapes-2-omnisphere/ 

Presets used in the demo:

PAD Cryopad
TXT Wakening
BAS Evolving Bass
KEY Ice Kalimba LUF
KEY Xylophone Baleric
SEQ Hihat Groove

Equinox Lab - Hypothesis

Audio demo track produced by Lauge, using presets from Lost Note - Ambient Soundscapes II.

https://www.luftrum.com/ambient-soundscapes-2-omnisphere/ 

Presets used in the demo:

TXT Rings of Saturn
ARP Ice Kalimba
PAD Cryopad
Pad Soft Glass
ARP Baleric Xylophone
SEQ Moon Landing
SEQ Hihat Groove
ARP Disolved Sines
BAS Intertia Bass Seq

Lauge - Lost Note (Space)

Audio demo track produced by Sensitizer, using presets from Lost Note - Ambient Soundscapes II.

https://www.luftrum.com/ambient-soundscapes-2-omnisphere/ 

Presets used in the demo:

PAD Bass Drone 1
SEQ Space Walk
PAD Deep Within LUF
PAD Deeppad2
PAD Cryopad
TXT Below The Surface


Sensitizer - Aurora Drift

Audio demo track produced by Spacecraft, using presets from Lost Note - Ambient Soundscapes II.

https://www.luftrum.com/ambient-soundscapes-2-omnisphere/ 

Presets used in the demo:

PAD Spaceweaver
PAD Omnipad
PAD Omnipad 2
TXT Wakening
PAD Deeppad
ARP Reversal
TXT Dizzyness 

Spacecraft - Main Sequence

Audio demo track produced by Baba Gnohm, using presets from Lost Note - Ambient Soundscapes II.

www.luftrum.com/ambient-soundscapes-2-omnisphere/

Presets used in the demo:

BAS Pulse 1
PAD Warm Glass
PAD Deep Voyage
ARP Nostalgia
SEQ Space Walk
ARP Dual Lines
KEY Xylophone Baleric
SEQ Hihat Groove 2
PAD Floating Free
SYN Classic Lead
+ Multi Kit 2 & 4


Baba Gnohm - Distant Light

Audio demo track produced by Lauge & Baba Gnohm, using presets from Lost Note - Ambient Soundscapes II.

www.luftrum.com/ambient-soundscapes-2-omnisphere/

Presets used in the demo:

PAD Floating Free
PAD The Shore
ARP Classic
ARP Nostalgia
PAD Deeppad 2
BAS Unison Glider
TXT Inner Sphere
SEQ Hihat Groove
SEQ Moon Landing

Multi - Kit 2 / B-Part altered sequence in Omnisphere
Verb Kick - Kit 2 BD with verb and lowpass filter
Snare Fills - Kit 2 SD as single hits
Multi - Kit 5 - Hihats


Lauge & Baba Gnohm - Fragments

0425A "Aperture Loop"

Fractal Plains

Modular Works I now on Bandcamp for free. Features this track + 24 other modular tracks written between Dec. 2017 and through 2018. Get it here: https://stateazure.bandcamp.com/album/modular-works-i

Fractal Plains

EQUINOX LAB

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