train-spotter-ish BASIC CHANNEL question

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so there's this record that came out a few years ago by a basic channel / chain reaction artist on another label. it was sort of like hard techno with lots of hiss and scary sonar pings

i am almost sure it was VARIOUS ARTISTS but it's not turning up in their discography.

the 12" had a picture on the flipside of the label was of a SUBMARINE coming straight at you, peeking halfway up out of some stormy arctic seas.

it was a great single, and really scary. does anybody remember who it was by?

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 25 November 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know but...

Porter Ricks? Monolake?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 25 November 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the only basic channel/chain reaction artist i can think of that kind of fits the song description is matrix...

― it's tricky (disco stu), Friday, 26 November 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

techno with lots of hiss and scary sonar pings

eh? that's most of them!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 26 November 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.koener.de/porter-ricks.html

― contribute, Friday, 26 November 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I would go with fluxion.

― hector (hector), Friday, 26 November 2004 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Your description of the picture reminded me of the Silex (aka Fluxion) single here with the blue label -- I don't know what that's supposed to be ... I suppose it could be a sub.

The first track on side two sort of fits your description, it's got a speaker-quaking bass line, no hi-hats but lots of pops, clicks and spooky noises.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 26 November 2004 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Porter Ricks "Trident/Scuba Patrol"? Maybe?

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 November 2004 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i was going to say "trident," too, but i can't find my copy to check the label...

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 26 November 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

can somebody tell me which is the "a-side" of phylyps trak ii? is it the paired down minimal beat tool that everyone always plays, or the noisy fast tempo hissed out one that no one seems to play?

― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Friday, 18 September 2009 21:19 (seventeen years ago)

Don't Basic Channel records kind of not actually have A and B sides. I always kind of appreciated how they reject siding their records (at least of all the BC records I have don't have A/B etched into the runout).

― EDB, Saturday, 19 September 2009 04:53 (seventeen years ago)

It's the overplayed (but always a pleasure to hear) track.

― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 19 September 2009 09:09 (seventeen years ago)

…With the skanking stabs. My favourite way to play it is behind The Sweetest Girl by Scritti Politti. Works a treat.

― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 19 September 2009 09:11 (seventeen years ago)

no, the track everyone plays is the b side, trak ii/ii. the one no-one plays is the a side. proof = http://basicchannel.com/item/BC-09 and the fact that trak ii/ii is on the cd.

― resolved, Saturday, 19 September 2009 10:54 (seventeen years ago)

(and is the beat tool)

― resolved, Saturday, 19 September 2009 10:54 (seventeen years ago)

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