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Essential, blueprint house groove — (via Hardwax)

The pressure of Maurizio’s ‘M4’ [1995] is a perfectly enduring example of Mark & Moritz almost imperceptibly changing the game, bit by bit, back in the 90's.

Seductively balmy and aqueous, the A-side’s bass drum purrs with pure, refined ecstasy alongside acid trickles and those scudding chords, while the flipside lusts under a haze of analog ephemera, teasing the chords to sublime effect. 100% essential in any collection. — (via Boomkat)

About Maurizio: Maurizio is the operating name of Moritz Von Oswald, the Berlin-based musician and entrepreneur who owns a half-share in Basic Channel Records and co-produced the label's various releases, a wildly influential series of fuzzy EPs with purposefully low production values recorded under the aliases Cyrus, Quadrant, Phylyps, and Radiance. Von Oswald reserved his solo work for the Basic Channel sublabel M, which issued a half-dozen Maurizio EPs during the mid-'90s. Understandably, the Maurizio sound is quite similar to Basic Channel's, though Von Oswald is often more taken with pounding dub basslines and a somewhat cleaner production style, which gives his EPs a better chance on dancefloors. 

While working at Tresor in 1993, Von Oswald had formed Basic Channel Records with partner Mark Ernestus. The immediately recognizable BC sound, a ruddy take on Detroit techno with minimal changes and maximum echo-chamber droning capacity, asserted itself with nine vinyl-only EPs during the next few years, recorded as various aliases including Cyrus, Quadrant, Phylyps, and Radiance, though all were presumably Von Oswald and Ernestus. In the meantime, the Maurizio project had begun recording in 1993, with the first release on M Records, the Ploy EP. After being remixed by the Orb, it was reissued by the British WAU!/Mr. Modo and even appeared on the second Excursions in Ambience compilation. M Records next released an EP by Vainqueur, then concentrated on Maurizio yet again with five EPs during the next three years. — (via John Bush, Rovi)

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Label: Basic Channel 
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Repressed: 2025 / Originally released: 1995
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Dub Techno, Minimal Techno

File under: Electronic
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