the UK magazine The Wire has had some articles about Basic Channel & such, but a few minutes with google turned up not much. If you're in New Zealand, I imagine getting copies of The Wire is expensive, and finding an archive of back issues to search through pretty much impossible.
Honestly there's very little 'serious' writing about techno and dance music. Dan Sicko's "Techno Rebels" http://tinyurl.com/frm8f is more about the history of Detroit artists than a study of the music itself. "Unlocking the Groove" by Mark J Butler gets very deep into the subject but isn't so much about dub techno in particular. http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=22615 I found a lot more searching just on dub, and dub techno is directly derived from Jamaican dub. http://tinyurl.com/ezo3s -- Jesus Dub by Robert Beckford The 313 archive may be the most valuable place to do research, because people have been blabbering about dubby techno since it first began. http://elists.resynthesize.com/313/ Search on dub, basic channel, chain reaction, anything else. Cheers for the link to that net label, I am always looking for music in that vein if its well done. I don't know if you're at University, but popular electronic music is a pretty fertile area for academic research. I know a few people who've done some work in that area, but unlike, for example, renaissance lute music, it's not a crowded field yet. Of course, once you start doing any academic work on popular music you have to overcome resistance from the established community who don't think popular music is worth considering as art. The people in the composition department at our local University get mad if anything contains a steady rhythm -- I guess once Stockhausen said regular beats are fascist, they figured that was the end of the story. On 9/23/06, Damian Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hey can anyone recommend any verbal or theoretical looks at the deeper dubbier side of techno? i was chatting with my flatmate last night (she's a musician but doesn't much listen to electronic music) and we realised that there were very little in the way of words or ideas that we could use to describe the things we were feeling, listening to some ultra-minimal tape hiss submerged dubby stuff (qnb001, http://netlabel.qunabu.com/). most of the techno discussion groups i'm involved with circle more around the politics and the new releases and the scene, and less around the actual music, the sounds and the shapes of the noises that in fact make up what it is that we are hearing; what they might mean, what it might mean to listen to them, why it is that we as humans like to listen to what is on some (albeat superficial) levels the same thing over and over again... theoretically there would seem to be obvious parallels with the 1970s breed of orchestral minimalism (steve reich/terry riley/etc) but from my searches it doesn't look like there's much in the way of writings or ideas connecting the 1970s to the 2000s. any recommendations for things i should read/mailing lists i should join/forums i should follow? thanks damian -- f r e y live music with machines http://www.frey.co.nz
