• Porter Ricks

Thomas Köner, quiet god of absolute zero drones. Andy Mellwig, master of the technology behind the world’s deepest dub techno recordings. Put them together, give them a particularly nautical nom de plume (Porter Ricks was a character on dolphin-bothering TV show Flipper – see, you learn while you leech here) and you have techno-dub so deep you… well, something or other/Jacques Cousteau/ bathysphere/Marianas Trench, blah blah. Three stunning albums, the last a split affair with the bolshier but equally bottom heavy Techno-Animal. Surely on the back of the Gas and Pole reissues some label with a modicum of spare cash has plans for a box set of these cavernous beauties?

Biokinetics, CD, Chain Reaction, 1996

1. Port Gentil (12:23)
2. Nautical Dub (5:46)
3. Biokinetics 1 (5:18 )
4. Biokinetics 2 (8:27)
5. Port of Call (9:09)
6. Port of Nuba (8:02)
7. Nautical Nuba (8:54)
8. Nautical Zone (12:06)

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Porter Ricks, CD, Mille Plateaux, 1997

1. Explore (5:45)
2. Redundance 5 (7:00)
3. Exposed (4:22)
4. Scuba Lounge (10:26)
5. Redundance (Version) (4:13)
6. Redundance 6 (4:30)
7. Spoiled (9:45)
8. Redundance 1 (6:04)
9. Redundance 3 (6:17)
10. Spoil (7:54)
11. Decay Chart (7:15)

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Porter Ricks vs Techno Animal, Symbiotics, CD, Force Inc 1999

1. Porter Ricks – Polytoxic 1 (4:49)
2. Techno-Animal – Hydrozoid (5:56)
3. Porter Ricks – Polytoxic 2 (6:18 )
4. Techno-Animal – Bio-Morphium (6:07)
5. Porter Ricks – Phosphoric (8:53)
6. Techno-Animal – Anthrazite (7:55)
7. Porter Ricks – Ionic (12:56)
8. Techno-Animal – Monosphate (5:45)

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PS, more Porter Ricks over at Ripped in Glasgow.