实验回响Experimental Dub

在距离阳光明媚的牙买加数千英里的地方，一群松散的柏林制作人启动了一种被称为实验都柏林的音乐风格。如果场景是中心的话，那就是发生在硬蜡唱片公司(Hard Wax Records)，这是一家唱片店，也是一家紧凑的发行公司，拥有几个风格的关键品牌(Basic Channel，Chain Reaction，Inflance)和制作人(Maurizio，Mark Ernestus，Porter Ricks，Pole，Monolake)。

得益于芝加哥酸屋和杰夫·米尔斯(Jeff Mills)、罗布·胡德(Rob Hood)和普拉蒂克曼(Plattikman)等底特律极简主义电子音乐人物，试验性配音相当容易被描述出来；声音通常集中在爆裂、浑浊的氛围中，听起来几乎是水下的，带有中速节拍和强烈而叮当的敲击声。

与牙买加经典配音制作人King Tubby和Lee“Scratch”Perry的相似之处充其量是间接的，但这个术语很好地识别了许多德国最好的实验制作人的签名声音。除了基本频道阵营，实验配音最重要的人物是迈克·墨克(又名沃尔夫冈·沃格特)和托马斯·布林克曼。

墨克是柏林的一名长期制片人，负责六个以上的化名和标签，他的大部分重要工作都是在亵渎和Studio 1标签上完成的。布林克曼是这一风格的相对新手，他将墨水和Plattikman的材料混合在一起，赢得了赞誉。反过来，实验配音在90年代末激发了几位主要的科技人物(包括Plattikman和Mills)的灵感，它的影响力甚至出现在美国独立摇滚和后摇滚中。

Thousands of miles away from sunny Jamaica, a loose collective of Berlin producers jump-started the style of music known as Experimental Dub. If the scene was centered at all, it occurred at Hard Wax Records, a record store as well as a tight distribution company that was home to several of the style's crucial labels (Basic Channel, Chain Reaction, Imbalance) and producers (Maurizio, Mark Ernestus, Porter Ricks, Pole, Monolake). Indebted to Chicago acid house and minimalist Detroit techno figures like Jeff Mills, Rob Hood, and Plastikman, experimental dub was rather easily characterized;

the sound usually focused on a mix of crackling, murky atmospheres that sounded almost subaquatic, with a midtempo beat and strong, clanging percussion. The similarities to classic Jamaican dub producers King Tubby and Lee "Scratch" Perry were indirect at best, but the term worked well for identifying the signature sound of many of Germany's best experimental producers.

Other than the Basic Channel camp, experimental dub's most important figures were Mike Ink (aka Wolfgang Voigt) and Thomas Brinkmann. Ink, a longtime Berlin producer responsible for more than a half-dozen aliases and labels, did most of his important work on the Profan and Studio 1 labels.

Brinkmann, a comparative newcomer to the style, earned praise for his remixes of material by Ink and Plastikman. Experimental dub, in turn, inspired several major techno figures (including Plastikman and Mills) by the late '90s, and its influence was even seen in American indie rock and post-rock.