This week I will mostly be listening to....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-DGtIPbphE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQSGsRRcpp0

Finally back in print!!! It was never going to be a straight forward thing - a Basic Channel mix has been on the cards for many years now, but the concept just needed to be as special as the source material in question. Having stated on many an occasion that Hardwax affiliates Pete and René, aka Scion, understood and played Basic Channel material in the way it was intended to be played, the release of Ableton's 'Live' software (engineered by Monolake's Robert Henke) convinced Mark and Mauritz that the time had come to try something new out. And that's precisely what this unfathomably good CD is - components from all 9 Basic Channel 12"s, (plus some choice cuts from related project Rhythm and Sound and remix work for Carl Craig), weave in and out of the mix, flawlessly spliced together, remodeeled and reshaped with deep understanding of the BC sound and a look towards its future. To give you an idea of the genius at play here - the first cut employs fragments from Cyrus's 'Inversion', 'Mutism', 'Radiance III' and the Basic Channel reworking of Cral Craig's awesome 'The Climax' - 4 classics, re-embedded to create something that constructs itself fresh, somewhere between mixing and remixing. And that's just the opening sequence! Flowing from first moment to last, this is a benchmark record that not only serves as a breathtaking testimony to one of our most treasured and beloved labels of all time, but also illustrates that technology really can be about more than just presets and self indulgance - here allowing seminal material to be re-lived from new perspectives and within new surroundings. Fans of Basic Channel will melt into this CD on first play, those of you new to the label will do well to give this a listen and understand exactly what all the fuss has been about. Utterly Essential.
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=8092