The number of commercially released dub techno mixes can be counted on one, er, finger. While Scion’s Arrange and Process Basic Channel Tracks (2002) used less than a dozen 12” singles as its source material, Montreal’s Deadbeat gleans from the banks of vinyl indebted to those subgenre-creating releases. Within a matter of a few minutes, Radio Rothko will aggravate those who demand variety, clever juxtapositions, and obvious peaks in DJ mixes. For those who can listen to minor variations on a style rooted in low-level bass throb, percussive FX, and atmospheres slathered in echo -- and care to know the difference between DeepChord, Echospace, and Echocord -- it will stun. Deadbeat does incorporate some earlier dub techno, scattering Basic Channel's radiant “Quadrant Dub I” (1994), Maurizio’s cushiony “M06A” (1996), and Various Artists' spaced-out “No. 3 [Debit]” (1997), but recent releases -- from labels like Modern Love, Meanwhile, and Echocord -- dominate the mix. The full program is a clinic in discerning intra-style selecting and superb sequencing, with the locomotive friction from tracks six through 11, beginning and ending with Deadbeat exclusives, nothing short of astonishing.
Radio Rothko
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Radio Rothko Review
by Andy Kellman
Track Listing
| Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
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Deadbeat | 00:39 | |||
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Deadbeat | 03:11 | |||
| 3 | Deadbeat feat: Deepchord | 02:16 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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Deadbeat feat: Basic Channel | 05:09 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
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Deadbeat feat: Pendle Coven | 01:42 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
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Deadbeat | 02:16 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
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Deadbeat feat: MLZ | 01:29 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
| 8 | Deadbeat feat: Quantec | 04:26 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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Deadbeat feat: Marko Fürstenberg | 04:33 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
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Deadbeat feat: Monolake | 05:31 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
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Deadbeat | 03:07 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
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Deadbeat feat: 2562 | 03:37 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
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Deadbeat feat: Monolake | 01:52 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
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Deadbeat feat: Rhythm And Sound | 03:37 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
| 15 | Deadbeat feat: Intrusion | 03:45 | ||||
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Deadbeat feat: Mikkel Metal | 05:16 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
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Deadbeat feat: Maurizio | 01:39 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
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Deadbeat feat: Substance & Vainqueur | 05:36 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
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Deadbeat | 07:00 | SpotifyAmazon |
