Last night around 9pm I saw a post from a fellow member of a music community I follow. It was a curious photo of an LP he was spinning at the moment with a minimal, text-only label which read, "Fluxion - Vibrant Forms. A."
From the color of the label and the sans serif typeface I hypothesized that it was likely some sort of minimal electronic music, so I hopped over to Youtube and keyed it in.
I was delighted to find it was reminiscent of Wolfgang Voigt's ambient, minimal techno under his legendary Gas moniker. Whatever this was, I wanted to hear more!
A quick survey of the artist page on RYM revealed that it was filed under Dub Techno. Where I'd previously exhausted all artists under the Ambient Dub heading (dominated primarily by The Orb), the highest-charting Dub Techno LPs were almost entirely new to me. A few names were familiar, namely Woob and Yagya, but the rest were off my radar. Jotting down the artists from the RYM top 10 LPs I went to work straight away.
The list included:
- Andy Stott
- Deadbeat
- Paul St. Hilaire
- Deepchord Presents Echospace
- Fluxion
- Monolake
- Porter Ricks
- Purl
- Woob
- and Yagya
I spent the remaining few hours of the evening compiling 45 albums from these artists - a solid introductory set to familiarize myself with the genre.
Today was spent taking it in - a playlist I've dubbed,
Bilateral Motion: Abstract Minimal Ambient Dub Techno.
Fluxion's Vibrant Forms I and II are excellent highlights from the set. Big thanks to VMD for the inspiration!
[UPDATE] I've been commanded to add Pole, Vladislav Delay and Rhythm & Sound to the list, which I'll work on this evening. Other recommendations are welcome!
