Thank you so much for the mention! When I started playing in 2008 the BPM's where much slower, and we usually played stuff by labels like Chain Reaction, echospace [detroit], Ilian Tape, Sushitech, and M-Plant for example, at 124 BPM. Dub, Deep & Detroit nights. But since we always played in clubs and pubs, we evolve with the community and what surround us. Also the introduction to mixing in 3 channels can achieve having synths and pads from dub tracks mixed with more peak time stripped tracks with good drums, and it's something get's people by surprise and they always dance. I never thought that I could have the chance of playing Phylys Trak in his original BPM, and it make everything feels like a circle that start repeating itself but with a new context. Sungate and Entourage Concept are definitely the new labels pushing the fast Dub Techno scene. And Uncage and RSPX have also a lot of peak time Detroit / Dub releases. Some artist I could recommend are: Elias, Stojche, Dying, Antic Soul, Dijuma, Ayqix, 23.4, Fadi Mohem, Skudge, Kaap, Stephen Brown, Private Press, Conforce, LKY. And in the house world, I think Janeret, S.A.M., Djoko, and Chris Stussy are really going for this fast Dub House.
I come back here every once in a while, and I'm bummed to see some of the videos are gone. Thanks for introducing me to so many great labels, and artists through this project!
arrangement is what it makes energetic, you can have 200 bpm track arranged that way it seems like 100bpm, simply sparse, half tempo arrangement creates the groove, 2/3 rhythm, or/and triplets - the final BPM tells only part of the story, that's is why you can mix 180 bpm song with 120 bpm - just consider one of them is in triplets, they can mix together (you will get funky/broken rhythm). If I am correct, 120 bpm in triplets will give you 90 bpm 4/4 'tempo'. So, yes, as you said tempo is not everything, but arrangement is a key.
"Hard" or "Peak Time" Dub Techno could be a topic for another video to expand on this theme: VRIL, Robert Hood, Eric Cloutier, Heiko Laux, Ray Kajioka, Sterac, Psyk, Shifted, ø (Phase), Stef Mendesidis, Hybrasil, Mark Broom, Marcal, Yan Cook, Deniro, Conforce, Koschka... labels: Kanzelramt, Klockworks, Tresor, Ostgut Ton, M-Plant, Delsin, Redscale, Uncage, Rekids RSPX, Palinoia, Mote-Evolver, Planet Rhythm, Entourage Concept... etc. Not all are purist "dub techno" but certainly borrow certain rhythmic ideas and dubby chord stabs.
@@wegpiraatwilco see this is where I don't like commenting much because it all depends on how much you want to split hairs or argue over what beatport is calling things these days... a lot of "dub techno" was called minimal back in the day anyway so yeah anyway most aren't 100% purist dub techno like I said most borrow certain rhythmic ideas and dubby chord stabs ... hopefully you get where I'm coming from with these examples. 1. VRIL - Portal 5 ruclips.net/video/Fptg3UR4pQU/видео.html 2. Yan Cook - Skyhigh ruclips.net/video/9rB-PYC8JLI/видео.html 3. Heiko Laux - Lucho Pt. 2 ruclips.net/video/rgGO-d1j-iI/видео.html 4. Parallel 9 - Gnosis ruclips.net/video/Vpk7pltXsaY/видео.html 5. Psyk - Parade ruclips.net/video/U_OVMczqyd8/видео.html 6. Stef Mendesidis - Minimalist Birmingham ruclips.net/video/87UFzTTSWIE/видео.html 7. Pitch Black - Robert Hood ruclips.net/video/MCTJtvwj-hw/видео.html 8. Ray Kajioka - Strike ruclips.net/video/_WVu-m9A4co/видео.html 9. Makam - Girls Night ruclips.net/video/Z0cQ6OYPFWw/видео.html 10. Conforce - 24 ruclips.net/video/5oPFQfoFops/видео.html
I think one of the reasons it works so well in a warehouse and club setting is that it just works perfectly on a huge sound system. The humungous lowend is often a rumble and just booms through that room and those big chord stabs add some real drive. Everyone goes bonkers when you play it.
I prefer listening to faster dub techno in clubs however no matter how fast is it, its dub techno and it always gives that transcendent space inside your mind even on headphones. Thanks for the amazing vedio. Your all vedios have quality content.
Wow, i was just developing my style to fast dub techno in a vacuum and now you make a video about it. Love your channel, its such a rare sight, seeing someone nerding out about techno.
When they have clubs in the sky, this is what they'll play. I've always had a steady diet of 150-160 breakbeat/acid trance and I also found there to a be a massive shortage of that stuff after '98, looking back. Probably the most concentrated period of futuristic dance music for me. Makes it worth digging.
I heard a track at the end of a Schranz Techno mix from 2005 that was very dubby. It was fast, heavy, but had the most amazing hypnotic chord stabs. It's been 16 years since I've heard it, but I can still hear it in my head... My heart raced when I saw the title, hoping it would be here. 😂
This is exactly what I needed, I was looking for faster dub techno just a week ago. Phylyps trak to this day is one of my favorite pieces of music ever.
This is great, been looking for more stuff like this, I'm a "deep" dubstep producer/DJ but the stuff I do specifically draws HEAVILY from techno and that whole dubstep/techno crossover thing the likes of Martyn, 2562, Scuba, Peverelist etc started doing in the mid/late 2000s Some of these tracks around the 140ish mark would work extremely well in the type of set I like to play, lots of very cool stuff for me to dig into here, thank you!
Thank you Thank you Thank you ^ Fast Dub Techno sounds really great and I guess would blow any ravers mind if a dj suddenly played it in the midst of a more "traditional" techno set!
I love that Mark Ernestus track. This style of dub techno might be a gateway into the slower BPMs for some. I can think of a few friends who slightly question why I like dub techno who would enjoy this... I think?
Thank you for the inspiration. I was really looking for something similar but was also stuck a bit. Great way of exploring energy levels and the connection between the roots and the new stuff
A dub techno track I find quite interesting is by cv313, and it’s called Fading Lights. There are so little drums that they blend into the very present and dub-style chords. Sounds quite different from the usual dub techno track, but interesting none the less! Tx for the great videos :)
I like to incorporate this style of track into a heavier DJ set as an energy break before building up the momentum again. These faster dub tracks are almost tailor made for this purpose
I think fast dub Techno has the potencial to blow up in the club scene. Like here in Berlin many young artists and crews are partying to this kind of music. Often combined with tribal groovy Techno. Lost in Ether, Artaphine, BCCO, Influenced Records are just a handfull of Labels who are releasing/supporting fast Dub Techno Tracks at regular intervals. I personaly love fast dub Techno and its my favorite genre to DJ Thx for ur great Content! Keep it up :) ps.: why dont u just do label for it? :D
Even before the pandemic, I was never much of a club guy, so I'll probably always prefer slower dub techno. That said, the faster tracks you featured in this video seem like they'd be perfectly at home at a warehouse party or similar. Dub techno is a big tent, I don't see any reason to limit it to a very thin sliver of the BPM spectrum. Great video, keep up the excellent work!
This style really is great for a warehouse/bunker or club setting. It is so energetic and groovy that it gives this really nice drive without being overly hard.
6:36 bratot Stojche, you nailed the pronunciation and I think literally the only macedonian that has produced dub techno sound...There's also a very recent release “Lockdown Cronicles EP“ with Rootsman I, vocalist from the macedonian Conquering Lion reggae band where on the A side you can feel Stojches exquisite producing, while on the back side you feel the the rawness of Dub, the whole EP It's like a Dub Techno rebirth...
I heard Stojche once at 2529KM vinyl release party (polish dubtechno record sublabel), the way he builds patterns and dead ends in his sets was amazing! BTW great channel
Love the video. Found your channel recently and loved the deepchord videos. LDS is one of my favorite newer acts and more people should check him out if they want more phylyps tracks sounding techno. I have a love for both fast and slow dub techno…. Stephen Hitchell’s Variant Alias is one of my favorites for slower atmospheric dub techno
Thank you for the great quality selection & video. I reccomend checking out "Bleu" by 23.4, released on the Entourage Concept lately. Such a great, enrgetic EP.
Great video. Thinking of the excellent Calbire EP you referenced, I would be interested to see your take on the sonic palette of Dub Techno in other genres, like Dubstep or Drum'n'Bass. Tracks like Exocet - Demon Seed, Om Unit - Sleeping Dragon, and Stillhead - Dwelling all come to mind immediately but there's loads more out there.
philosophically once could argue that faster dub techno is actually slower than average dub techno. at 140bpm counted in half time, you have a 70bpm track built around a slow 32nd note rhythmic structure. try counting fast dub techno tracks in half time and you will find really deep subliminal pockets. dance to it and discover a very nuanced and deep groove...
I forgot to mention this when I first saw this video, but I would like to mention an artist that fits in this category imh. Its named Low Orbit Satellite, apparently from Russia, and he has many EP releases on his Bandcamp. For more than 10 years has has been releasing what can be described as Fast Paced Dub Techno, but often mixing other Techno subgenres, I totally recommend him.
Thank you so much for the information. Just discovered Dub Techno and I'm really vibing with it and this was a great resource for leads on amazing artists. I really appreciate the work you put into this video.
A lot of things I’ve been listening to in the progressive house/trance realm have been sucked into a cesspool of slowness (128 BPM and much less now… more like 120-122 BPM). I absolutely adore the range of tempos there are in dub techno, as it reminds me of how electronic music was the Wild West west back in the early 90’s. There was NO “standard” tempo back then, and I dig that there isn’t such a thing in dub techno. That said, I like to increase tempo over the course of a set/night, so the more of a range of tempo there is in dub tempo, the more options there are for progressing a set from start to finish. I think there’s DEFINITELY a need for 135-140 BPM dub techno that works for peak time.
Great selection! I'm also discovering more and more that the speed and the energy/intensity of a given track aren't strictly related. I think, at this point, it's pointless to try to limit dub techno (or any other style) to some sort of tempo, structural, or even timbral conventions. Time and time again, various artists and labels showed, that core ideas of the “established” genres can be developed into all manner of directions. And I think it's great, electronic music is still in its early days, and It's nice to see it progress (even if this progress can feel somewhat cyclical at times :P).
Good stuff. I like the combination of dub techno and "high energy" ...and I was pretty sure you'd mention Diego on Kanzleramt, e.g., The Persuasion Channel LP, but admittedly it's merely frantic techno with dub influences.
Imo you cant talk about modern fast dub techno without mentioning fadi mohem, he really has that sparse, few elements pushed to the max, groovy dub techno in the style of robert hood and basic channel channel down to a science
Definitely loving the fast Dub Techno sound. I would love to see more artists experimenting with dub and dub techno elements in faster, harder, or noisier areas. From what I've seen, ambient and noise can sometimes be very similar in terms of arrangement so if dub techno and ambient can go well together I think it's entirely possible for dub techno and noise to work together. It may end up sounding more like more like dub hardcore than dub techno but it would still be interesting to hear.
Personally, i really enjoyed tracks at higher BPMs that take elements from dub techno, mostly the dubbed saw chords, but put them over a more driving frame with thumpier, bigger kick drums than what you showed in this video. Such tracks include Van Bonn - Counterpart and Strvck - Contra (PVS Remix). They only sit at 128 BPM, but feel really high energy and to me feel like they'd work great in conjunction with other styles of Techno, when considering dancefloor use. For home listening, i tend to preffer slower tracks, or such ones with a slower arrangement. Like the Calibre, DRS and Mark Ernestus collab. Generally, I love rootsy dub techno/dub fusions like Babe Roots or Another Channel do for casual listening
Komplex never released much stuff on known labels but the dubbier trax used to span between 125-155bpm (live). I think that Komplex - Tunnels track on Soundform Recordings is close to 140bpm from memory... Don't think all the dubbier tracks shelved by Soleil Records ever got officialy released either, just played in Echoplex's energetic mix sets... Soleil is a great label, good of you to include Rainshell in this video. Echoplex's Magnetic Share of Wonders would have been a great pick too. Totally under rated artists.
This might be cheating but I think Hidden Hawaii and now Nullpunkt kind of exist in a high bpm 'dub techno' area. I'm aware that most the output from those two labels is mostly inspired by D&B and isn't reliant on 4/4 time signatures but listening to Zwischenwelt by DB1 it's pretty obviously inspired by Basic Channel and the like.
forest drive west while not always dubby has heaps of tunes ranging from about 90-160bpm. If you enjoy dub techno you might like his minimal spacey sound. He also makes good jungle
Whenever I try and use my pea sized brain to qualify or quantify music I love that takes me out of my pea sized brain, I end up in the Schrodinger Cat litter box. I end up knowing nothing about nothing and having to un-ask all the questions just to find my front door. With that being said, I tend to lean more to ambient side the ambient dub techno equation. Sorry, I know Ive added "ambient", but my brain needs all three with "dub" being in the middle. The fulcrum if you will in the giant teeter totter of "DUB TECHNO". And when I do find my front door and venture out I drift towards, I don't know ...acid techno??? It's whatever genre or teeter totter that has TM404 on one end and 999999999 on the other. Now where are my car keys??????
I personally find Dub Techno's focus on texturing makes it more appropriate for headphone listening. In a club with all the chatter and poor stereo imaging, a lot of the musical detail is lost. I don't mind higher BPM DT, but I don't think it would be my choice for a noisy club.
Better to retitle the header as “faster dub techno” rather than kind of hinting at coining a new genre. People may get confused. Honorable mention to Cari Lekebusch.
Also please note to the heads.. Disco had dub versions of their tracks, you want to call that dub disco? Just dub versions of disco cuts. Dub techno is dub techno and there’s dub versions of techno tracks. I think there’s a lot of people who have dub versions of their tracks, leaning more towards the scientist mixing style rather than carrying on a legacy of Maurizio.
@@Volpearg Oh man, that's horrible! I thought "SNTS identity" joke might have had actual mystery behind it. I saw a "Virgin Techno Fan vs Chad Ostrogoth Raver" meme a while ago, and in the (supposedly) "true techno fan" knew the SNTS's identity. Guess it was an old and irrelevant meme :(
@@berkayurun Oh man, i forgot about that meme, some quotes from it killed me 😂. It was sort of a mystery or uncertain before 2019/2020, but then the clubbers started confirming it. It was not my intention to come an cut the joke jajaja.
Grasshoppers on crack. It is now august 2022 and people are burnt out, the River Rhine has dried up and the heat is on. Energy is low turntables run slower. The only thing rising is the price of oil and gas. By 2023 bpm will be around 85 and Estonia looks set to become the Mecca of Dub.
I use it as a DAC for my desktop computer (to send audio to my speakers/headphones/IEMs). I'd say it's worth it if you need its feature set. In terms of audio quality, the difference between a $200 DAC and a $1000 DAC is measurable "in a laboratory" but not so much by the human ear (in my opinion). But it had all the features I needed, so I went for it :)
I’m coming from house/progressive house, where BPM’s have been trending downwards for a while. I remember 128 being fairly slow 20 years ago, and that’s roughly how I’d start my sets (125-130), finishing a good bit faster by the end of the night. That was forever ago (retired), so whatever. Anyway… most of what I’ve been listening to has been closer to 120-124 in the house/prog world, but even a lot of standard techno & trance has been sub-126. Anything over 135 is perfect for me! #maketechno150BPMagain
Hiya, thanks for this and for everything. I wanted to ask about the Spotify playlist and couldn't basically find a better channel (heh heh pun intended) than here on RUclips. Are all the tracks on it something you've touched upon on the videos, or dub techno music to your liking in general? It's a beauty :) PLUR
I tend to feel DubTechno sounds better when it’s slower, with its foundations in Dub. As DT speeds up, for me it morphs into more of a generalized Techno . I prefer it slower as it works so well for setting moods and laying foundations for progression in sets.
Actually most of the firts dub techno tracks where super fast because they duplicated the normal tempo of dub (70) to the double (140). Progression and layers are sepparate things from speed I think
@@Volpearg I agree, but offer a differ: that Dub Techno (as a genre) has predominantly been on the slower ebb of the flow. I think (and again, this is only my own take on things), that it’s generally been felt this style should be slowed down a little, as it flows so damned well when it’s at the lower end of things. I never really understood how it could called Dub, when it was charging along - heading rapidly into techno-time territory.
@@Durdelly Oh, yes, for sure. It was more close to ambient, an worked as a soothing background music, I agree with that. But most of the time I play 120 bpm tracks at 140 bpm, with the master tempo, so the key of the track is the same, only faster. It will be more oriented to the dancefloor, and also work as a background music for people that are used to hear harder Techno. The essence of Dub for me is related to bass, echoes, reverb, phasers and filters, it's the sound I used to hear on dub reggae all the time and translated to the dub techno realm. But maybe as you said, the genres will start dividing more and more and get their own category in the future, we will have to wait to see it
Thank you so much for the mention!
When I started playing in 2008 the BPM's where much slower, and we usually played stuff by labels like Chain Reaction, echospace [detroit], Ilian Tape, Sushitech, and M-Plant for example, at 124 BPM. Dub, Deep & Detroit nights. But since we always played in clubs and pubs, we evolve with the community and what surround us.
Also the introduction to mixing in 3 channels can achieve having synths and pads from dub tracks mixed with more peak time stripped tracks with good drums, and it's something get's people by surprise and they always dance. I never thought that I could have the chance of playing Phylys Trak in his original BPM, and it make everything feels like a circle that start repeating itself but with a new context.
Sungate and Entourage Concept are definitely the new labels pushing the fast Dub Techno scene. And Uncage and RSPX have also a lot of peak time Detroit / Dub releases.
Some artist I could recommend are: Elias, Stojche, Dying, Antic Soul, Dijuma, Ayqix, 23.4, Fadi Mohem, Skudge, Kaap, Stephen Brown, Private Press, Conforce, LKY.
And in the house world, I think Janeret, S.A.M., Djoko, and Chris Stussy are really going for this fast Dub House.
should not forget Deniro as well! HIs Deep speedy cuts hit the mark as well.
I come back here every once in a while, and I'm bummed to see some of the videos are gone. Thanks for introducing me to so many great labels, and artists through this project!
I agree, it’s a shame he sunset the project and took down many of the videos 😔
arrangement is what it makes energetic, you can have 200 bpm track arranged that way it seems like 100bpm, simply sparse, half tempo arrangement creates the groove, 2/3 rhythm, or/and triplets - the final BPM tells only part of the story, that's is why you can mix 180 bpm song with 120 bpm - just consider one of them is in triplets, they can mix together (you will get funky/broken rhythm). If I am correct, 120 bpm in triplets will give you 90 bpm 4/4 'tempo'. So, yes, as you said tempo is not everything, but arrangement is a key.
True! I've transitioned from Dubtechno straight into Beatroots downtempo before. Timbre, texture and arrangement is key!
Man you made me a fan of dub techno with this channel.
"Hard" or "Peak Time" Dub Techno could be a topic for another video to expand on this theme: VRIL, Robert Hood, Eric Cloutier, Heiko Laux, Ray Kajioka, Sterac, Psyk, Shifted, ø (Phase), Stef Mendesidis, Hybrasil, Mark Broom, Marcal, Yan Cook, Deniro, Conforce, Koschka... labels: Kanzelramt, Klockworks, Tresor, Ostgut Ton, M-Plant, Delsin, Redscale, Uncage, Rekids RSPX, Palinoia, Mote-Evolver, Planet Rhythm, Entourage Concept... etc. Not all are purist "dub techno" but certainly borrow certain rhythmic ideas and dubby chord stabs.
Aren't these artist more minimal, hypnotic, deep, raw, modular techno? I see no dub elements in them.
@@wegpiraatwilco see this is where I don't like commenting much because it all depends on how much you want to split hairs or argue over what beatport is calling things these days... a lot of "dub techno" was called minimal back in the day anyway so yeah anyway most aren't 100% purist dub techno like I said most borrow certain rhythmic ideas and dubby chord stabs ... hopefully you get where I'm coming from with these examples.
1. VRIL - Portal 5 ruclips.net/video/Fptg3UR4pQU/видео.html
2. Yan Cook - Skyhigh ruclips.net/video/9rB-PYC8JLI/видео.html
3. Heiko Laux - Lucho Pt. 2 ruclips.net/video/rgGO-d1j-iI/видео.html
4. Parallel 9 - Gnosis ruclips.net/video/Vpk7pltXsaY/видео.html
5. Psyk - Parade ruclips.net/video/U_OVMczqyd8/видео.html
6. Stef Mendesidis - Minimalist Birmingham ruclips.net/video/87UFzTTSWIE/видео.html
7. Pitch Black - Robert Hood ruclips.net/video/MCTJtvwj-hw/видео.html
8. Ray Kajioka - Strike ruclips.net/video/_WVu-m9A4co/видео.html
9. Makam - Girls Night ruclips.net/video/Z0cQ6OYPFWw/видео.html
10. Conforce - 24 ruclips.net/video/5oPFQfoFops/видео.html
Those are like all my favorite artists
I really like incorporating that style into my sets.
I think one of the reasons it works so well in a warehouse and club setting is that it just works perfectly on a huge sound system.
The humungous lowend is often a rumble and just booms through that room and those big chord stabs add some real drive. Everyone goes bonkers when you play it.
I prefer listening to faster dub techno in clubs however no matter how fast is it, its dub techno and it always gives that transcendent space inside your mind even on headphones.
Thanks for the amazing vedio.
Your all vedios have quality content.
Wow, i was just developing my style to fast dub techno in a vacuum and now you make a video about it. Love your channel, its such a rare sight, seeing someone nerding out about techno.
When they have clubs in the sky, this is what they'll play.
I've always had a steady diet of 150-160 breakbeat/acid trance and I also found there to a be a massive shortage of that stuff after '98, looking back. Probably the most concentrated period of futuristic dance music for me. Makes it worth digging.
I heard a track at the end of a Schranz Techno mix from 2005 that was very dubby. It was fast, heavy, but had the most amazing hypnotic chord stabs. It's been 16 years since I've heard it, but I can still hear it in my head... My heart raced when I saw the title, hoping it would be here. 😂
I started with Schranz too,remember good stuff too,today im in Dub Techno ;)
This is exactly what I needed, I was looking for faster dub techno just a week ago. Phylyps trak to this day is one of my favorite pieces of music ever.
This is great, been looking for more stuff like this, I'm a "deep" dubstep producer/DJ but the stuff I do specifically draws HEAVILY from techno and that whole dubstep/techno crossover thing the likes of Martyn, 2562, Scuba, Peverelist etc started doing in the mid/late 2000s
Some of these tracks around the 140ish mark would work extremely well in the type of set I like to play, lots of very cool stuff for me to dig into here, thank you!
Shoutout to 2562's other alias, A made up sound
best youtube channel. Loving the Handlung stuff.
I exclusively mix fast Dub Techno, love to see it get the spotlight!
Stojche is the shit by far my favorite dub techno producer
Thank you Thank you Thank you ^
Fast Dub Techno sounds really great and I guess would blow any ravers mind if a dj suddenly played it in the midst of a more "traditional" techno set!
Yeah!!!! I hear it now and again. Not necessarily dub-techno, but really fast + ambient music, and it sets things off.
I've definitely played that LDS track out and it's amazing in the club.
I love that Mark Ernestus track. This style of dub techno might be a gateway into the slower BPMs for some. I can think of a few friends who slightly question why I like dub techno who would enjoy this... I think?
morten b is amazing. great video thank you!
Thank you again. Love your content!
My favourite YT Channel at the moment. Lots of stuff I love and listen to + more to dig out. Good job! Keep it up! Greetings from Poland!
I'd also shoutout Prince of Denmark, he definetly has stuff that can be categorized as 'fast' dub techno
levon vncent alsoo
Love, love, love the fast kinetic dub techno.
‘Matrix - Millieux’ is a great fast dubtechno track, one of the most underrated tracks on the Chain Reaction label I think
Thank you for the inspiration. I was really looking for something similar but was also stuck a bit. Great way of exploring energy levels and the connection between the roots and the new stuff
I learned a lot of great artists through this channel.
A dub techno track I find quite interesting is by cv313, and it’s called Fading Lights. There are so little drums that they blend into the very present and dub-style chords. Sounds quite different from the usual dub techno track, but interesting none the less!
Tx for the great videos :)
That LDS tune is so slick.
I like to incorporate this style of track into a heavier DJ set as an energy break before building up the momentum again. These faster dub tracks are almost tailor made for this purpose
I think fast dub Techno has the potencial to blow up in the club scene. Like here in Berlin many young artists and crews are partying to this kind of music. Often combined with tribal groovy Techno. Lost in Ether, Artaphine, BCCO, Influenced Records are just a handfull of Labels who are releasing/supporting fast Dub Techno Tracks at regular intervals.
I personaly love fast dub Techno and its my favorite genre to DJ
Thx for ur great Content! Keep it up :)
ps.: why dont u just do label for it? :D
volpe also uses some dub influences in his techno tracks, pretty cool
Don't forget the deeper stuff on Soundform Recordings too
Couldn't find Artephine label. Can you share a link?
This style is pretty big in amsterdam scene
@@mcharbo8726 Here is the link to their first compilation (Which I have the pleasure to be part of)
artaphine.bandcamp.com/album/various-artaphine-001
Even before the pandemic, I was never much of a club guy, so I'll probably always prefer slower dub techno. That said, the faster tracks you featured in this video seem like they'd be perfectly at home at a warehouse party or similar. Dub techno is a big tent, I don't see any reason to limit it to a very thin sliver of the BPM spectrum.
Great video, keep up the excellent work!
This style really is great for a warehouse/bunker or club setting. It is so energetic and groovy that it gives this really nice drive without being overly hard.
Nicely done, as always - thanks for sharing your insights
thanks to you ive been discovering great music and artist
My word, this is fantastic content. Thank you!
6:36 bratot Stojche, you nailed the pronunciation and I think literally the only macedonian that has produced dub techno sound...There's also a very recent release “Lockdown Cronicles EP“ with Rootsman I, vocalist from the macedonian Conquering Lion reggae band where on the A side you can feel Stojches exquisite producing, while on the back side you feel the the rawness of Dub, the whole EP It's like a Dub Techno rebirth...
I heard Stojche once at 2529KM vinyl release party (polish dubtechno record sublabel), the way he builds patterns and dead ends in his sets was amazing!
BTW great channel
Love the video. Found your channel recently and loved the deepchord videos. LDS is one of my favorite newer acts and more people should check him out if they want more phylyps tracks sounding techno. I have a love for both fast and slow dub techno…. Stephen Hitchell’s Variant Alias is one of my favorites for slower atmospheric dub techno
Yes, been looking forward to this!
Thank you for the great quality selection & video.
I reccomend checking out "Bleu" by 23.4, released on the Entourage Concept lately. Such a great, enrgetic EP.
I just found LDS earlier and digging about his style. I search on reddit for fast dub techno and now I'm here ! HUGE THANKS FOR THIS VID ! 👍👍👍👍👍
Also worth mentioning Hidden Hawaii, loads of that stuff is 170BPM dub techno / experimental
great vid, thx so much for educating us.
Great video. Thinking of the excellent Calbire EP you referenced, I would be interested to see your take on the sonic palette of Dub Techno in other genres, like Dubstep or Drum'n'Bass.
Tracks like Exocet - Demon Seed, Om Unit - Sleeping Dragon, and Stillhead - Dwelling all come to mind immediately but there's loads more out there.
philosophically once could argue that faster dub techno is actually slower than average dub techno. at 140bpm counted in half time, you have a 70bpm track built around a slow 32nd note rhythmic structure. try counting fast dub techno tracks in half time and you will find really deep subliminal pockets. dance to it and discover a very nuanced and deep groove...
Great video, thanks for adressing this matter!
I forgot to mention this when I first saw this video, but I would like to mention an artist that fits in this category imh. Its named Low Orbit Satellite, apparently from Russia, and he has many EP releases on his Bandcamp. For more than 10 years has has been releasing what can be described as Fast Paced Dub Techno, but often mixing other Techno subgenres, I totally recommend him.
The sub sub genre I've been looking for (and atempting to make) is Acid Dub Techno 😅
TM404?
Fadi mohem is also a great artist working on energetic high bpm dub techno in the dance floors
I was just looking for tracks like this
Thank you so much for the information. Just discovered Dub Techno and I'm really vibing with it and this was a great resource for leads on amazing artists. I really appreciate the work you put into this video.
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A lot of things I’ve been listening to in the progressive house/trance realm have been sucked into a cesspool of slowness (128 BPM and much less now… more like 120-122 BPM). I absolutely adore the range of tempos there are in dub techno, as it reminds me of how electronic music was the Wild West west back in the early 90’s. There was NO “standard” tempo back then, and I dig that there isn’t such a thing in dub techno.
That said, I like to increase tempo over the course of a set/night, so the more of a range of tempo there is in dub tempo, the more options there are for progressing a set from start to finish. I think there’s DEFINITELY a need for 135-140 BPM dub techno that works for peak time.
Great selection!
I'm also discovering more and more that the speed and the energy/intensity of a given track aren't strictly related.
I think, at this point, it's pointless to try to limit dub techno (or any other style) to some sort of tempo, structural, or even timbral conventions. Time and time again, various artists and labels showed, that core ideas of the “established” genres can be developed into all manner of directions. And I think it's great, electronic music is still in its early days, and It's nice to see it progress (even if this progress can feel somewhat cyclical at times :P).
Good stuff. I like the combination of dub techno and "high energy" ...and I was pretty sure you'd mention Diego on Kanzleramt, e.g., The Persuasion Channel LP, but admittedly it's merely frantic techno with dub influences.
Another top video. Great content, really well presented. Thanks 🤙🤘👍
Imo you cant talk about modern fast dub techno without mentioning fadi mohem, he really has that sparse, few elements pushed to the max, groovy dub techno in the style of robert hood and basic channel channel down to a science
Thanks for the great recommendations!
Lowkey flexing with the ADI-2. 👍
Kraftwerk Tour de France 2009 feels like classic fast dub techno
I don't know how this happened, but I never knew about that Echoplex track :D Find of the day, thanks!
Thanks for the great content!
Definitely loving the fast Dub Techno sound. I would love to see more artists experimenting with dub and dub techno elements in faster, harder, or noisier areas. From what I've seen, ambient and noise can sometimes be very similar in terms of arrangement so if dub techno and ambient can go well together I think it's entirely possible for dub techno and noise to work together. It may end up sounding more like more like dub hardcore than dub techno but it would still be interesting to hear.
Personally, i really enjoyed tracks at higher BPMs that take elements from dub techno, mostly the dubbed saw chords, but put them over a more driving frame with thumpier, bigger kick drums than what you showed in this video. Such tracks include Van Bonn - Counterpart and Strvck - Contra (PVS Remix). They only sit at 128 BPM, but feel really high energy and to me feel like they'd work great in conjunction with other styles of Techno, when considering dancefloor use. For home listening, i tend to preffer slower tracks, or such ones with a slower arrangement. Like the Calibre, DRS and Mark Ernestus collab. Generally, I love rootsy dub techno/dub fusions like Babe Roots or Another Channel do for casual listening
Komplex never released much stuff on known labels but the dubbier trax used to span between 125-155bpm (live). I think that Komplex - Tunnels track on Soundform Recordings is close to 140bpm from memory... Don't think all the dubbier tracks shelved by Soleil Records ever got officialy released either, just played in Echoplex's energetic mix sets... Soleil is a great label, good of you to include Rainshell in this video. Echoplex's Magnetic Share of Wonders would have been a great pick too. Totally under rated artists.
My favourite fast dubtechno track: Enforcement
This might be cheating but I think Hidden Hawaii and now Nullpunkt kind of exist in a high bpm 'dub techno' area. I'm aware that most the output from those two labels is mostly inspired by D&B and isn't reliant on 4/4 time signatures but listening to Zwischenwelt by DB1 it's pretty obviously inspired by Basic Channel and the like.
Merch: A shop full of black T shirts.
One of my favourite fast dub techno tracks is c-mem 1.1 , highly recommend
forest drive west while not always dubby has heaps of tunes ranging from about 90-160bpm. If you enjoy dub techno you might like his minimal spacey sound. He also makes good jungle
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me, trying to spot some speck of dust in this video.
Dub Monitor : "you might wanna listen to while cleaning the house". perfect timing.
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Merv - Dust - not that fast (maybe 135ish?) but it does have more energy than most dub techno made these days.
Merv is pure Dub quality, love their music
Whenever I try and use my pea sized brain to qualify or quantify music I love that takes me out of my pea sized brain, I end up in the Schrodinger Cat litter box. I end up knowing nothing about nothing and having to un-ask all the questions just to find my front door. With that being said, I tend to lean more to ambient side the ambient dub techno equation. Sorry, I know Ive added "ambient", but my brain needs all three with "dub" being in the middle. The fulcrum if you will in the giant teeter totter of "DUB TECHNO". And when I do find my front door and venture out I drift towards, I don't know ...acid techno??? It's whatever genre or teeter totter that has TM404 on one end and 999999999 on the other. Now where are my car keys??????
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I personally find Dub Techno's focus on texturing makes it more appropriate for headphone listening. In a club with all the chatter and poor stereo imaging, a lot of the musical detail is lost. I don't mind higher BPM DT, but I don't think it would be my choice for a noisy club.
Better to retitle the header as “faster dub techno” rather than kind of hinting at coining a new genre. People may get confused.
Honorable mention to Cari Lekebusch.
Also please note to the heads.. Disco had dub versions of their tracks, you want to call that dub disco?
Just dub versions of disco cuts.
Dub techno is dub techno and there’s dub versions of techno tracks.
I think there’s a lot of people who have dub versions of their tracks, leaning more towards the scientist mixing style rather than carrying on a legacy of Maurizio.
You should check out the latest Drift Deeper show. It's quite energetic imo
Nice I need this
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Eric Cloutier - Eleutheromania (among other tracks in his discography)
also Dod - No Need to Brag is very energetic
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I think Phylyps Track should be called "Phylyps Trak!" :D
Where are these older videos?
According to a legend, Dub Monitor possesses the knowledge of SNTS' true identity.
It’s true
@@DubMonitor :o
I think everyone already knows that is Manu Benitez aka Unam Zetineb (The guy who copied tracks of other people and publish them under his name)
@@Volpearg Oh man, that's horrible! I thought "SNTS identity" joke might have had actual mystery behind it. I saw a "Virgin Techno Fan vs Chad Ostrogoth Raver" meme a while ago, and in the (supposedly) "true techno fan" knew the SNTS's identity. Guess it was an old and irrelevant meme :(
@@berkayurun Oh man, i forgot about that meme, some quotes from it killed me 😂. It was sort of a mystery or uncertain before 2019/2020, but then the clubbers started confirming it.
It was not my intention to come an cut the joke jajaja.
Cool as always. But… now I want to find a reason to buy the RME
I swear they're not a sponsor :p
lol!
Grasshoppers on crack. It is now august 2022 and people are burnt out, the River Rhine has dried up and the heat is on. Energy is low turntables run slower. The only thing rising is the price of oil and gas. By 2023 bpm will be around 85 and Estonia looks set to become the Mecca of Dub.
Is the ADI-2-DAC worth it, if I may respectfully ask you about this matter, Sir? Are you using it for CDs or vinyl?
I use it as a DAC for my desktop computer (to send audio to my speakers/headphones/IEMs). I'd say it's worth it if you need its feature set. In terms of audio quality, the difference between a $200 DAC and a $1000 DAC is measurable "in a laboratory" but not so much by the human ear (in my opinion). But it had all the features I needed, so I went for it :)
Matrix (LP on CR)
I’m coming from house/progressive house, where BPM’s have been trending downwards for a while. I remember 128 being fairly slow 20 years ago, and that’s roughly how I’d start my sets (125-130), finishing a good bit faster by the end of the night. That was forever ago (retired), so whatever.
Anyway… most of what I’ve been listening to has been closer to 120-124 in the house/prog world, but even a lot of standard techno & trance has been sub-126. Anything over 135 is perfect for me! #maketechno150BPMagain
Hiya, thanks for this and for everything. I wanted to ask about the Spotify playlist and couldn't basically find a better channel (heh heh pun intended) than here on RUclips. Are all the tracks on it something you've touched upon on the videos, or dub techno music to your liking in general? It's a beauty :) PLUR
They’re all tracks that have been mentioned in a video at some point :-)
@@DubMonitor got it, thanks
9:03 It depends what makes you go at the certain moment. It's flexible I think :)
Genre-speaking, where would you put an artist like Lars Huismann? Thank you
you should deff do a vid about sungate & spclnch
at last......
I tend to feel DubTechno sounds better when it’s slower, with its foundations in Dub. As DT speeds up, for me it morphs into more of a generalized Techno . I prefer it slower as it works so well for setting moods and laying foundations for progression in sets.
Actually most of the firts dub techno tracks where super fast because they duplicated the normal tempo of dub (70) to the double (140). Progression and layers are sepparate things from speed I think
@@Volpearg I agree, but offer a differ: that Dub Techno (as a genre) has predominantly been on the slower ebb of the flow. I think (and again, this is only my own take on things), that it’s generally been felt this style should be slowed down a little, as it flows so damned well when it’s at the lower end of things. I never really understood how it could called Dub, when it was charging along - heading rapidly into techno-time territory.
@@Durdelly Oh, yes, for sure. It was more close to ambient, an worked as a soothing background music, I agree with that. But most of the time I play 120 bpm tracks at 140 bpm, with the master tempo, so the key of the track is the same, only faster. It will be more oriented to the dancefloor, and also work as a background music for people that are used to hear harder Techno.
The essence of Dub for me is related to bass, echoes, reverb, phasers and filters, it's the sound I used to hear on dub reggae all the time and translated to the dub techno realm.
But maybe as you said, the genres will start dividing more and more and get their own category in the future, we will have to wait to see it
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The advent - So What
#maketechno150BPMagain
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Robert Johnson forever
People also like to be contrarian so that could be why they ask for "Fast Dub"