- Artist
- Porter Ricks
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- Biokinetics
- Label
- Mille Plateaux
- Catalogue Number
- MP26
- Release Date
- June 11, 2021
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Originally released in 1996, the first album from Thomas Köner and Andy Mellwig on Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus' Chain Reaction label is a seminal dub techno masterpiece which has left an indelible mark on the genre.
In the 21st century, it’s possible to hear resonances of 1996’s Biokinetics everywhere. It’s in the blossoming of rough-around-the-edges ambient music from the likes of Huerco S. and his West Mineral Ltd. label, plotted alongside the minimalism of early Plastikman and the increasingly longform excursions of deep techno. The work towers much in the way of other monuments: with an unending and mysterious opacity.
It isn’t clear exactly what constitutes the elemental driving force of the LP’s epic bookends ‘Port Gentil’ and ‘Nautical Zone’; both are 12-minute behemoths which move with the power of speeding freight trains, and yet in parallel also seem to levitate in the cerebral near distance. The faded textural qualities of ‘Nautical Dub’ and ‘Biokinetics 2’ weld their hypnotic rhythms from dulled scrapes and thuds, prefiguring the ‘hauntological’ glow of Actress’ Ghettoville almost two decades before the fact. In other spots, the skips and frenetic stutters of ‘Biokinetics 1’ and ‘Port of Nuba’ transform discordance with idiosyncratic vision.
Fittingly, the title Biokinetics invokes the movement of organic entities; it’s a rare feat to make techno music that sounds this human.
- 1 Port Gentil 12:25
- 2 Nautical Dub 5:48
- 3 Biokinetics 1 5:20
- 4 Biokinetics 2 8:29
- 5 Port of Call 9:11
- 6 Port of Nuba 8:05
- 7 Nautical Nuba 8:56
- 8 Nautical Zone 12:06
Porter Ricks
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- Artist
- Porter Ricks
- ReleaseProduct
- Porter Ricks
- Label
- Mille Plateaux
- Catalogue Number
- MP35
- Release Date
- September 24, 2021
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- Porter Ricks
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- Anguilla Electrica
- Label
- Tresor Records
- Catalogue Number
- TRESOR295
- Release Date
- June 30, 2017
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- Porter Ricks
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- Shadow Boat
- Label
- Tresor Records
- Catalogue Number
- TRESOR288
- Release Date
- November 18, 2016
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- Biokinetics
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- Type
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- TYPE100
- Release Date
- January 25, 2012
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Mille Plateaux
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- no sum win
- Label
- Mille Plateaux
- Catalogue Number
- MP57
- Release Date
- March 24, 2023
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- Lukas Moritz Wegscheider
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- S/N
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- Mille Plateaux
- Catalogue Number
- MP61
- Release Date
- March 24, 2023
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- Ibrahim Alfa Jnr
- ReleaseProduct
- Sirius A
- Label
- Mille Plateaux
- Catalogue Number
- MP55
- Release Date
- March 10, 2023
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- Teruyuki Kurihara
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- Parallel
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- Mille Plateaux
- Catalogue Number
- MP54
- Release Date
- February 17, 2023
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- Mille Plateaux
- Catalogue Number
- MP53
- Release Date
- January 27, 2023
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- Simona Zamboli
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- A laugh will bury you
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- Mille Plateaux
- Catalogue Number
- MP52
- Release Date
- January 13, 2023
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- Daikan
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- Mille Plateaux
- Catalogue Number
- MP49
- Release Date
- November 11, 2022
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- Sifir
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- Not Enough Negativity
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- Mille Plateaux
- Catalogue Number
- MP51
- Release Date
- October 28, 2022
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- GLOK
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- Pattern Recognition Remixes
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- Bytes
- Catalogue Number
- BYTES14R
- Release Date
- March 10, 2023
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- Foam On A Wave
- Catalogue Number
- FOAW004
- Release Date
- March 3, 2023
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- Pub
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- Autumn
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- Ampoule Records
- Catalogue Number
- AMP010
- Release Date
- October 21, 2022
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- Soma Records
- Catalogue Number
- SOMADA125
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- September 30, 2022
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- May 26, 2023
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- Catalogue Number
- SJRD530
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- April 28, 2023
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- Domino Recording Co
- Catalogue Number
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- July 28, 2023
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- Catalogue Number
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- Release Date
- August 11, 2023
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