Chain Reaction

[version]

In here, @Leo

 

[luka]

hows the game work? what do we do?

 

[version]

You discuss the Chain Reaction label and tell me which you think are the best records. That, or you could hijack the thread and turn it into a game where each song posted is a direct response to the previous.

 

[chava]

Best and most original: Vladislav Delay & Porter Ricks, but Vainqueur did make some "bangers" as they say now

 

[john eden]

This is the best side of the only one I have. V ambient. Bit polite but it sucks you in:

 

[john eden]

One of the people in Hallucinator now does that Strangeness of Dub podcast.

 

[john eden]

Oh actually I've got a couple of Porter Ricks tracks on the Macro Dub Infection comps.

It's good all this stuff but it's one of them where I find myself completely in the mood for it every few years and then it's done - immerse yourself and move on.

 

[yyaldrin]

 

[chava]

This is just ridiculous well done, Vlad delay is one of the very few "auteurs" in electronic music IMO :

 

[chava]

Another one that doesn't fit the CR template and I hated it when it came out. Now it's one my favorites:

 

[version]

Anyone wonder whether whoever's releasing records as Shinichi Atobe these days is really Shinichi Atobe? Seems odd to put out one record, disappear for decades then just pop up again and start releasing a bunch of albums.

 

[version]

 

[william_kent]

ooh, I didn't know there was a Chain Reaction thread

time to make lists listicles

 

[william_kent]

Helical Scan - Index 1 ( CR-11 )

"Monolake" in full effect

four to the floor with the "basic channel" ratio on the echo / delay

 

[william_kent]

Chain Reaction demonstrates the GENIUS of Basic Channel

rather than let the wannabes release on your highly regarded label, punt them off to your UNTERLABEL

this is where UR, despite Mad Mike's much vaunted quality control, went wrong, this is why there are no duds on basic channel

 

[william_kent]

I'll give this one a pass


Monolake -Magenta I ( CR-08 )

TD EQ'd over 4/4 w/BC ratio delay

 

[0bleak]

i view chain reaction as more of an opening up to similar, but different sounds

 

[william_kent]

this might be stretching it a bit

"various artists" was / is Torsten Profrock ( aka T++ ) and he realised some tunes on Chain Reaction but my favourite tune of his is this off a Fat Cat comp that teaches Mark Ernestus a thing or two about delay


Various artists - Modulo 8.5 by Monolake

edit: sort of incestuous because "Various Artists" / Torsten Profrock / T++ was "in" Monolake for a while

 

[0bleak]

That tune is like the complimentary sunset tune to Vainqueur's sunrise.

 

[william_kent]

That tune is like the complimentary sunset tune to Vainqueur's sunrise.

It's the best "Chain reaction" tune that wasn't actually a CR release