Basic Channel is/was brilliant and Maurizio did some fantastic sounding productions. He pushed dub, electronic and techno to new heights and influenced so many producers, then and now. I don't thnk Tresor and techno would be the same now if it wasn't for him. At least not the Berlin/Detroit artists that he came along with him or came along after him. I don't think Jeff Mills, Jaun Atkins, Hawtin and Derrrick May would have had very big careers at all if it weren't for the support they got in Europe. And that support really began with him (and other of course) in Germany.
The problem has always been the lack of information,
they took minimal to a whole new extreme. I must have had the "what did he use ? / who is he ? / who did that BC record ?" a couple hundred times over the past 10 years.
Almost no information on production technique except for the fact that he
loved vinyl and it took him a long while after they were successful to release anything on cd or tape.
From what I've gather talking to people, who I consider honest and knowledgable, he mixed to tape only (no dat, no digital). The small noises, clicks and pops are many things but he would sample a needle stuck on the inside groove of a record and loop that on roland space echos and/or other analog delays. He was/is very excited in approaching techno music by breaking down the
sounds that djs hear all time in a very minimal sense. That rumble and noise of the stylus grinding at the inside artworks on a 12 inch. But he used all kinds of things from what I've been told. Why are the productions so big and open? Cause he's a good producer working with good sound.
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alexstringer
Moritz Von Oswald productions have always facinated me from his very early Maurizio and Basic Channel releases...It got even more interesting eventually through the Rythm and Sound / Burial mix productions with Tikiman.
Do anybody know how what kind of analog effects were used ? I though i could recognize a Roland Sre555 but i'm not sure....
The common background noise you hear on each release brings the magic out of his productions, it also became his very own distinctive imprint... I'm wondering how it was made....i mean beyond Genius...