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Techno was the outcome of German experimentation that Americans imported. Americans then exported techno to Germany, selling ice to Eskimos, basically, before Germany started offering techno back to the Americans. This process has been duplicated approximately 123,877 times since 1990. Dub techno takes that migratory pattern and saturates it with studio procedures inherited from Jamaica.

The standard story of dub techno is therefore: Moritz Von Oswald and his previous production partner Mark Ernestus chose, at some time in the early 90s, that what techno a genre still in it's brief shorts, if not total infancy needed was a dosage of dub's echoplexed studio trickery to exploit the gaps in between the staccato jackhammer of the ever present kickdrum.

With their Chain Reaction imprint, they took it to new levels. We'll return to them shortly. Now, regretfully, a lot of dub techno out there is unbelievably dull greyscale, unadventurous, absolutely and actually generic. Check it Out must appear simple to make due to the fact that after all, all you require is the an immersed kickdrum, a couple of clanking chords stretched pointlessly out into arching waves of unmoving, unfeeling nothingness, and maybe the odd snatch of worn out melodica, snaking around like a cobra that frantically requires to be put out of its suffering.

As it's music that's purposefully wandering glacially, but still drifting however it is borderline impossible to discover truly awful handles it. Because method, it's a bit like ambient. In reality, thinking about dub techno as a cousin, or step-brother, of ambient is an useful method of framing things.

It's acoustic wallpaper. It is placid, unquestioning, deeply calming. Ambient is entertainment of the somnambulance of the womb, basically. Therefore is dub techno. The finest dub techno is clearly unshowy, never overreaching, never attempting to wow or stun. That it can and does both stun and wow is a testament to the power of subtlety.

It's a perfect example of the power of spatiality: every element in the mix is given breathing time and, accordingly, takes on a sense of the natural. It's a work of architectural, structural, and musical genius. As the genre wouldn't exist as we know it without Von Oswald and Ernestus, we must spend a little time looking at their work of arts and why they work.