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Basic Unit
12+ albums
Drum and bassAlldnbthrilling comeback
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There are two or more artists going under the alias "Basic Unit". 1) Basic Unit is Rick Dallaway and Ben England, UK Drum and Bass artists with 12"s out on Audio Couture, Flex and Deepest Cut. These two guys formed Basic Unit and debuted on Moving Shadow in 1997. They also moved on Nocturnal, a cult label that reached beyond D&B to platform some more experimental sounds. It was a short-lived label with some ominous footnotes — 'Several people involved with Nocturnal have vanished or are dead' reads the label's Discogs description. But in 1998 Nocturnal put out "Timeline", a CD-only album from Basic Unit that cut a sharp, scathing figure against most D&B of the era. England and Dallaway embraced the album format as a chance to go deep, inhaling their inspiration from early days Autechre as much as Source Direct and boiling down the results to a steely, minimalist framework. Simply an album that's as confrontational and desolate as it can get. As recently as 2025, "Timeline" got reissued on Sneaker Social Club, alongside them releasing a new EP "Redux" in the same year. 2) Another group of artists going by the name Basic Unit is Yair Etziony (Vermont) and Shlomi Avni (DJ Sola). They've been pioneers in the Israeli electronic scene since 2001 with the Micoropeople collective. In 2005 they joined forces to become Basic Unit. Their new creation fusing influences from Detroit techno to German and US-house. Alongside the like-minded Tubi and M1 crew, they initiated the Exercis
