I really hope this channel overcomes RUclips's algorithms. Your work is wonderful, I'm sure all of us are grateful for all the effort. The content and its quality is top-notch!
Thanks for highlighting this beautiful side of dub techno, Dub Monitor! Ambient Dub Techno is less rhythmic and dynamic and features more pads and feeling of space compared to a more dancefloor tracks of the genre. Na fe throw it Version by Round Five has always been one of favourites in ambient dub techno style. Just how it is spacey and down to earth at the same time makes me excited. Other related tracks I'd like to mention: Bruit Blanc - Le Cosmos, Altone - Synapse, Cold - Fractal Memory, Arovane - Struktur 1, ashen - asylum, Hydergine - Retrofitted Future, Aura Fresh - Jegesch, Liquid Delay - D3 P02, ...
one of my favorite ambient dub techno artists is BT-Gate X-138, this guy is a legend in my book - incorporating various field recordings and radio transmissions in his works, eg. magadan pylons
krill.minima's “Radiodub EP” (2003) is my all-time favorite in this style. It’s absolutely suffused with background noise - shortwave static, vinyl crackle, tape hiss - out of which slow dub-techno stabs roll like ocean waves. It’s debatable whether there’s any “techno” to it at all, but there is an implied beat that the sounds sync to. It’s hypnotic and dreamlike, and I often listen to it to help me go to sleep. (k.m. Is an alias of the somewhat better-known Marsen Jules, IRL Martin Juhls.)
Dub Monitor: One of the few RUclips blog channels which you NEED a subwoofer or a good pair of headphones to listen to. Always a delight to see one of your vids pop up on my feed!
I like your channel! Though (and I haven't watched them all), it would be cool to see a video about the direct influence of Jamaican Dub (the original Dub) on Dub Techno, early Dubstep, etc.
thank you for recomendations i listen in in youtube very nice stuff i like it calm dub techno. if you know something like that please write. tnx. i like YAGYA by the way its good dub techno
I have been waiting for this channel since I was in school! You have no idea how much I appreciate your work. Thank you ❤️❤️ please can you cover like current techno records that you think are important? 🙏
i am incredibly appreciative of your channel. i’m new to dub techno so this has been a beautiful resource. a few months ago, the only thing i knew was Maurizio. you keep opening my eyes.
Also, if you're into the more experimental and less beat-driven stuff Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, Space Afrika, Pontiac Streator and anything on the Sferic label are some recent favourites.
Being from the UK me and my mates first came across what we would have called ambient dub with the Orb's perpetual dawn in 91 and the towers of dub from 92. Dance Hall was an influence in the late 80's rave scene and ambient dub was popular with the new age free festival scene in the early 90's. You can hear this influence in Primal Scream's higher than the sun from 91 and also in Left Field's Leftism album from 95.
Dear Dub Monitor, I really like your channel and appreciate the work you put in it. I was thinking if one day maybe you could make a video about the more reggea style/ dubstep dub techno (which I truly love from my heart). Artists like Babe Roots, SND & RTN, Another Channel, Masis, Frenk Dublin and of course Rhythm & Sound . I know it's quite underground, and somewhat far from the usual dub "techno" but I would love to hear your thoughts about this topic! Greetings and love from Budapest, Hungary.
Would have loved to see more of Stephen Hitchell´s work here, so many quality ambient dub tracks and more styles that he ventures to. One of my favorite would be Dreaming Thru Vector on his alias Variant.
My favorite dub techno track in the past two years has been Monodisc's "Stroom" coming from Cold Tear Records. Also Terekke's "Amaze" and Sentomea's "Wander" are up there with Monodisc.
Great channel thank you, I've landed here several time researching styles and artists for production and learning. Appreciate the work that goes into every video.
Most of the tracks are well known to me, but new names and tracks to discover are always precious for my ears, so thank you very much for recommenations ;) When i think about my definition of ambient dub techno, i perceive it as not rigid genre: for me it can incorporate various rythmics, both slow, fast and syncopated - as long as emphasis on atmospheric and emotional melodies is put. Thus from myself i want to highly recommend my beloved ambient dub (but not techno) album from my countryman from Poland - "Worship Nothing" by Hatti Vatti (Piotr Kaliński), released by New Moon Recordings in 2014. I can't count how many times i have listened to this, how much i love it's neon-like sound (perfectly matching with album cover) and night, moody atmosphere, accompanied with variously syncopated rythmics and great both co-production and vocal featurings (Versa, Synkro, Cian Finn, Sara Brylewska are my highlights) and overall impressionistic but emotional charge. I am very happy i finally bought my physical copy of this LP on CD . Thank you very much once more for recommenations, and your channel and warm greetings from 🇵🇱😊
A classic for me is the track Sunset by Deepchord on The Coldest Season 4 part series, might be on vinyl 3. They are all excellent but Sunset really gets me.
Fluxion is a good example. And someone that often gets overlooked. I dont want to be the guy who sits here and names a bunch of stuff. I definitely lean towards the more ambient side though. Good video. Nice to see telrae mentioned
If you've got more artists/ releases, please do name them anyways. I'm sure no one will mind or rather appreciate it. I'd always like to hear of more music :)
Happy that I knew basically all but one of these tracks, indicating perhaps that I haven't missed too much of the high quality stuff that's out there. Usually I hardly recognize any of the tracks you mention (which is also nice, because it means there is more out there to explore).
Love your videos man. It's nice to have music as a discussion rather than just gear reviews and tutorials... so much of this already out there so this is very refreshing. I'm a veteran when it comes to Ambient/Techno/House. Maybe in a future video you could go back a little further in time and talk about some of our godfathers of Ambient house and instrumental music such as The Orb and Thomas Fehlmann. Hardly anyone talks about them, well they are not that popular anymore but they were pioneers back in the day. Anyway keep it up and thanks for your great works.
I come back to this video quite often to get some new artists to listen to :) Your recommendations as well as the comment sections have quite a lot of gems in them! So I thought I'd share some as well :) Ver - Autosinfonie EP (it's quite dark and deep) Racecorner - Fourtwenty Markus Masuhr's "The Dub Theory" series Blamstrain - Missing You Kraut Sounds - Altered Lights Hydergine - Therapeutic Flow intrusion - "tswana dub" [ Brendon moeller's beatpharmacy dub ]
Interesting. I always thought of The Orb, FSOL, Warp stuff like Aphex Twin, Autechre and all the guys on EM:T (Woob) as the original Ambient Dub / Ambient Techno producers. Ultramarine were my faves. I mean the Orb's first two albums 1990-92 are both ambient and really dubby (as in Dub Reggae) and the first Beyond Records "Ambient Dub" compilation with Higher Intelligence Agency and Banco de Gaia etc was 1993. Ambient itself has its roots in Minimalism with contributions from Pink Floyd along the way to Brian Eno's coining of the term. Discogs describes Basic Channel as Techno/Dub Techno with no mention of ambient. It seems to be related to Autechre and also to Drum and Bass/Jungle too though. It's definitely nice to hear about stuff other than from the UK. Hmm lumpers vs splitters. Thanks anyway. I definitely learned some things. Be Well. Greetings from Berlin x x
I love dub techno ans therefor your videos! the light, the tracks, your style, your voice, everythink match and is so peacefull. As we are talking about dub techno, I wanted to talk about Helly Larson who left us way too soon but who had time to leave us many and amaizing tracks (waiting us my favorite). Cheers from France (btw, you should check out Upwellings who is also from France ans great dub producer).
I heard Pole's 1 - 3 for the first time in the late 00's. For me, 2 had the most magic and it really had me gripped for a long time. At the time I had never heard anything quite like those records. I was coming to them from a primarily guitar centric music background (though the range of that background was broad and included experimental artists). In thinking back now, the only other record that comes to mind as an indicator that I *might* get into Pole is the record Motion Pool by Main.
Hey, thanks for your videos. I love the aesthetics, your stories, and, of course, the sound. I understand the term Ambient Dub Techno mostly through Pole's work so my suggestions include incredibly subdued tones and rhythms like: Daniel Stefanik - Reactivity 1 Rhythm & Sound - Imprint Office of Passion - Навигация Crazy (spicy) bonus: Office of Passion - Chihnul And, depending on how someone defines term ambient, I think I'd like to suggest two more unpopular tracks which have more defined rhythm sections and melodies, nevertheless are both by incredible artists and are definitely worth a mention: Das Kraftfuttermischwerk - Downunder the Moon Oak - Starbird Stay cool!
Again, amazing episode, your channel is excellent and always learn something. I have been following this genre since the Basic Channel and Chain Reaction days. One thing I have not given much time to understanding is the Rhythm and Sound direction, while I do enjoy it, I have not dove into the history of how it came to be and where it went, you have touched on it many times. Any chance of a dedicated episode? Also the sometimes challenging to listen to character Vladislav Delay, I have not heard much about him, but I know he is a key player, sometimes he is quite a challenge to listen to, but much respected for his productions. Again, I can't praise your channel enough, I recommend it to everyone I know who follows this genre and they agree. Thank you again.
love your content as always! I just stumbled on Lux Libra - PC Plan which might appeal to you (sadly only digital/self-released at the moment I think), funnily enough the guy goes as 'dubmo' on some platforms. cheers!
Another great Video. Thank you! What do you think about Atheus? He hast many good releases when it Gomes to DUB-Techno or Ambient music. I would love to hear some of your thoughts
There’s a connection there, especially with Quadrant Dub II. I’ve been trying to get the full story on it for another episode but still waiting on some answers.
Informative video, keep em coming!i I do damn love echo space label, CV313, Varian, Deepchord is deepest ambient dub you can get! Check out Variant - Tape Sessions, it's truly unlike anything you have ever heard!
I don't think it quite fits, as it's a little more techy/minimal, but I've often felt that some of SND's stuff sits in this realm somehow (an example ruclips.net/video/BTv_2XMexCM/видео.html ) Thoughts on SND? (see also ruclips.net/video/fkWvwrhyAOE/видео.html )
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I really hope this channel overcomes RUclips's algorithms. Your work is wonderful, I'm sure all of us are grateful for all the effort. The content and its quality is top-notch!
Yes!
Thanks for highlighting this beautiful side of dub techno, Dub Monitor!
Ambient Dub Techno is less rhythmic and dynamic and features more pads and feeling of space compared to a more dancefloor tracks of the genre.
Na fe throw it Version by Round Five has always been one of favourites in ambient dub techno style. Just how it is spacey and down to earth at the same time makes me excited.
Other related tracks I'd like to mention: Bruit Blanc - Le Cosmos, Altone - Synapse, Cold - Fractal Memory, Arovane - Struktur 1, ashen - asylum, Hydergine - Retrofitted Future, Aura Fresh - Jegesch, Liquid Delay - D3 P02, ...
one of my favorite ambient dub techno artists is BT-Gate X-138, this guy is a legend in my book - incorporating various field recordings and radio transmissions in his works, eg. magadan pylons
Just found out about him last week. And I agree. So talented.
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krill.minima's “Radiodub EP” (2003) is my all-time favorite in this style. It’s absolutely suffused with background noise - shortwave static, vinyl crackle, tape hiss - out of which slow dub-techno stabs roll like ocean waves. It’s debatable whether there’s any “techno” to it at all, but there is an implied beat that the sounds sync to. It’s hypnotic and dreamlike, and I often listen to it to help me go to sleep. (k.m. Is an alias of the somewhat better-known Marsen Jules, IRL Martin Juhls.)
That's a lovely EP, thanks a lot for the recommendation!
love all your videos. thanks for sharing your knowledge.
i get excited to know that there’s someone out there that can quantify these things in words
Dub Monitor: One of the few RUclips blog channels which you NEED a subwoofer or a good pair of headphones to listen to.
Always a delight to see one of your vids pop up on my feed!
I like your channel! Though (and I haven't watched them all), it would be cool to see a video about the direct influence of Jamaican Dub (the original Dub) on Dub Techno, early Dubstep, etc.
Love seeing Fluxion get some love.
Broadwalk Tales is one of my favourite dub albums.
thank you for recomendations i listen in in youtube very nice stuff i like it calm dub techno. if you know something like that please write. tnx. i like YAGYA by the way its good dub techno
I have been waiting for this channel since I was in school! You have no idea how much I appreciate your work. Thank you ❤️❤️
please can you cover like current techno records that you think are important? 🙏
i am incredibly appreciative of your channel. i’m new to dub techno so this has been a beautiful resource. a few months ago, the only thing i knew was Maurizio. you keep opening my eyes.
very nice to see Telrae here
Coming off of a youth of UK rave and IDM, dub techno was such a revelation to me. These days it's just about the only type of music I can truly enjoy.
Love this sound. Deepchord's an obvious choice but 20 Electrostatic Soundfields is a beautiful example.
Also, if you're into the more experimental and less beat-driven stuff Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, Space Afrika, Pontiac Streator and anything on the Sferic label are some recent favourites.
Love CV313
Thanks for the heads up on Cio D'or.
I think Loscil has a place in this conversation too... especially a release like Black Tusk.
Thanks for the video! Currently enjoying Pole, a lot 🙌🏻😁
Bvdub’s One Last Look At The Sea and Silent Reign are both fantastic releases.
Fuuuuuckin love your channel man.
I deeply recommend radius interpolation tapes! Great topic, and so much info in the comments
Being from the UK me and my mates first came across what we would have called ambient dub with the Orb's perpetual dawn in 91 and the towers of dub from 92. Dance Hall was an influence in the late 80's rave scene and ambient dub was popular with the new age free festival scene in the early 90's. You can hear this influence in Primal Scream's higher than the sun from 91 and also in Left Field's Leftism album from 95.
yeah this is such a great channel. totally in love.
Dear Dub Monitor, I really like your channel and appreciate the work you put in it. I was thinking if one day maybe you could make a video about the more reggea style/ dubstep dub techno (which I truly love from my heart). Artists like Babe Roots, SND & RTN, Another Channel, Masis, Frenk Dublin and of course Rhythm & Sound . I know it's quite underground, and somewhat far from the usual dub "techno" but I would love to hear your thoughts about this topic! Greetings and love from Budapest, Hungary.
Right on! Great idea. Those tracks combining the classic roots dub vibes and techno are so cool!
Great idea ;)
Oh yes babr roots,i love the work of those guys
Somewhere Decent To Live by Space Afrika fits into this style very well
Nikosf. - Collecting The Moments on Moshitaka will always be up there
Yes! Love Nikos.
Thanks for your effort. i love it. my tip for ambient dub techno is biosphere "when i leave"
Would have loved to see more of Stephen Hitchell´s work here, so many quality ambient dub tracks and more styles that he ventures to. One of my favorite would be Dreaming Thru Vector on his alias Variant.
Dreaming Thru Vector is incredible, listening to that for the first couple times is quite the audio journey
My favorite dub techno track in the past two years has been Monodisc's "Stroom" coming from Cold Tear Records. Also Terekke's "Amaze" and Sentomea's "Wander" are up there with Monodisc.
cheers scuba, good knowledge
I'm a big fan of Fluxion.
Really enjoying your videos.
Great channel thank you, I've landed here several time researching styles and artists for production and learning. Appreciate the work that goes into every video.
I am very happy to have a resource to learn about this niche music genre. Excellent quality and great references. Thanks DubMonitor!
Outstanding work, as allways, love your channel man, excellent quality, cheers!!
Great video! Just the inspiration I need to start writing more music 🙏🏾
Most of the tracks are well known to me, but new names and tracks to discover are always precious for my ears, so thank you very much for recommenations ;) When i think about my definition of ambient dub techno, i perceive it as not rigid genre: for me it can incorporate various rythmics, both slow, fast and syncopated - as long as emphasis on atmospheric and emotional melodies is put. Thus from myself i want to highly recommend my beloved ambient dub (but not techno) album from my countryman from Poland - "Worship Nothing" by Hatti Vatti (Piotr Kaliński), released by New Moon Recordings in 2014. I can't count how many times i have listened to this, how much i love it's neon-like sound (perfectly matching with album cover) and night, moody atmosphere, accompanied with variously syncopated rythmics and great both co-production and vocal featurings (Versa, Synkro, Cian Finn, Sara Brylewska are my highlights) and overall impressionistic but emotional charge. I am very happy i finally bought my physical copy of this LP on CD . Thank you very much once more for recommenations, and your channel and warm greetings from 🇵🇱😊
A classic for me is the track Sunset by Deepchord on The Coldest Season 4 part series, might be on vinyl 3. They are all excellent but Sunset really gets me.
Great compilation of artists. I've enjoyed all tracks.
Fluxion is a good example. And someone that often gets overlooked.
I dont want to be the guy who sits here and names a bunch of stuff. I definitely lean towards the more ambient side though. Good video.
Nice to see telrae mentioned
If you've got more artists/ releases, please do name them anyways. I'm sure no one will mind or rather appreciate it. I'd always like to hear of more music :)
Happy that I knew basically all but one of these tracks, indicating perhaps that I haven't missed too much of the high quality stuff that's out there. Usually I hardly recognize any of the tracks you mention (which is also nice, because it means there is more out there to explore).
Thank you! Lots of places to go digging...
Love your videos man. It's nice to have music as a discussion rather than just gear reviews and tutorials... so much of this already out there so this is very refreshing. I'm a veteran when it comes to Ambient/Techno/House. Maybe in a future video you could go back a little further in time and talk about some of our godfathers of Ambient house and instrumental music such as The Orb and Thomas Fehlmann. Hardly anyone talks about them, well they are not that popular anymore but they were pioneers back in the day. Anyway keep it up and thanks for your great works.
im inclined to mention TM404 in this regard!
I come back to this video quite often to get some new artists to listen to :)
Your recommendations as well as the comment sections have quite a lot of gems in them!
So I thought I'd share some as well :)
Ver - Autosinfonie EP (it's quite dark and deep)
Racecorner - Fourtwenty
Markus Masuhr's "The Dub Theory" series
Blamstrain - Missing You
Kraut Sounds - Altered Lights
Hydergine - Therapeutic Flow
intrusion - "tswana dub" [ Brendon moeller's beatpharmacy dub ]
How great, I just discovered your channel and I really enjoy it a lot. Nice you cover Telrae as well.
Interesting. I always thought of The Orb, FSOL, Warp stuff like Aphex Twin, Autechre and all the guys on EM:T (Woob) as the original Ambient Dub / Ambient Techno producers. Ultramarine were my faves. I mean the Orb's first two albums 1990-92 are both ambient and really dubby (as in Dub Reggae) and the first Beyond Records "Ambient Dub" compilation with Higher Intelligence Agency and Banco de Gaia etc was 1993. Ambient itself has its roots in Minimalism with contributions from Pink Floyd along the way to Brian Eno's coining of the term. Discogs describes Basic Channel as Techno/Dub Techno with no mention of ambient. It seems to be related to Autechre and also to Drum and Bass/Jungle too though. It's definitely nice to hear about stuff other than from the UK. Hmm lumpers vs splitters. Thanks anyway. I definitely learned some things. Be Well. Greetings from Berlin x x
ambient dub techno is the best quality and smoothest form of dub techno...saying its the best is the same as saying its favorite of course😁
I love dub techno ans therefor your videos! the light, the tracks, your style, your voice, everythink match and is so peacefull. As we are talking about dub techno, I wanted to talk about Helly Larson who left us way too soon but who had time to leave us many and amaizing tracks (waiting us my favorite). Cheers from France (btw, you should check out Upwellings who is also from France ans great dub producer).
love the touch on Round Five
I heard Pole's 1 - 3 for the first time in the late 00's. For me, 2 had the most magic and it really had me gripped for a long time. At the time I had never heard anything quite like those records. I was coming to them from a primarily guitar centric music background (though the range of that background was broad and included experimental artists). In thinking back now, the only other record that comes to mind as an indicator that I *might* get into Pole is the record Motion Pool by Main.
Great video as always. Keep it up!
Love this episode ( like all
Of them after all :)) 🥁🥁
Hey, thanks for your videos. I love the aesthetics, your stories, and, of course, the sound. I understand the term Ambient Dub Techno mostly through Pole's work so my suggestions include incredibly subdued tones and rhythms like:
Daniel Stefanik - Reactivity 1
Rhythm & Sound - Imprint
Office of Passion - Навигация
Crazy (spicy) bonus:
Office of Passion - Chihnul
And, depending on how someone defines term ambient, I think I'd like to suggest two more unpopular tracks which have more defined rhythm sections and melodies, nevertheless are both by incredible artists and are definitely worth a mention:
Das Kraftfuttermischwerk - Downunder the Moon
Oak - Starbird
Stay cool!
Awesome content, thanks!
Again, amazing episode, your channel is excellent and always learn something.
I have been following this genre since the Basic Channel and Chain Reaction days.
One thing I have not given much time to understanding is the Rhythm and Sound direction, while I do enjoy it, I have not dove into the history of how it came to be and where it went, you have touched on it many times. Any chance of a dedicated episode?
Also the sometimes challenging to listen to character Vladislav Delay, I have not heard much about him, but I know he is a key player, sometimes he is quite a challenge to listen to, but much respected for his productions.
Again, I can't praise your channel enough, I recommend it to everyone I know who follows this genre and they agree.
Thank you again.
🖤Round Project*****Pole********CV313*******
another great vid!
love your content as always! I just stumbled on Lux Libra - PC Plan which might appeal to you (sadly only digital/self-released at the moment I think), funnily enough the guy goes as 'dubmo' on some platforms. cheers!
Love the vinyl pornography,with that ambient dub.youve done your job sir.
Dont forget or miss out on the Chilli Space album series been running since 02 and have some phenomenal dub techno / chillout / ambient dub selections
Excellent episode! Lot of good music. Fluxion is producing wonderful music for a long time, never dissapoints.
what a great sundae
A newer album I keep going back to is 'Akmuo - Ieškant Tylos'
Quadrant Dub is way more club oriented than ambient. It is though, without a doubt, versatile enough to be played in an ambient setting.
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perfect line-up here, if you like this style, my 'timeaway' series on youtube meanders mostly around ambient dub, downtempo & idm.
Imma let you finish, but Indigo by Monolake is the best ambient dub track of all time.
Another great Video. Thank you!
What do you think about Atheus? He hast many good releases when it Gomes to DUB-Techno or Ambient music. I would love to hear some of your thoughts
Fluxion’s stuff is so damn good
first view, first comment, first like!
Spotify playlists!
Biosphere and Kruder & Dorfmeister are my favorites but I’m not sure they’re even in the genre 😂
Fluxion is Papa Smurf
Hey Dub Monitor, have you heard of Intrusion, particularly their album _The Seduction of Silence_ ?
Yes, big fan of Hitchell’s work
can you make one on priori pretty please? 🥺
Isn't "Quadrant Dub" actually a remix of Round One "I'm Your Brother"?
There’s a connection there, especially with Quadrant Dub II. I’ve been trying to get the full story on it for another episode but still waiting on some answers.
Informative video, keep em coming!i I do damn love echo space label, CV313, Varian, Deepchord is deepest ambient dub you can get! Check out Variant - Tape Sessions, it's truly unlike anything you have ever heard!
I don't think it quite fits, as it's a little more techy/minimal, but I've often felt that some of SND's stuff sits in this realm somehow (an example ruclips.net/video/BTv_2XMexCM/видео.html ) Thoughts on SND? (see also ruclips.net/video/fkWvwrhyAOE/видео.html )