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…might be the right one to warm up a dark foggy floor
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Loving this guy’s music at the moment.
This is my take on a slightly deeper, more chilled out tech house. I hope it in a small way helps to put to rest the ‘what’s happened to tech house’ question as found it flawed, a bit lazy and a tad disrespectful to those who still make and play good music. Stick your headphones on, pretend it’s 2am, you are on a dancefloor and you have had a dab of mudma. If you still think it’s a bag of shite, lacking any depth, warmth, melody etc then I am not going to argue but I still feel it’s the same with all genres, seek, get to know who is good at it and you will find some good stuff.
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I liked a lot of the playhouse stuff. spent many a night immersed at AKA/The End circa 2002-04. Very fond memories of the monthly Harmonica parties that my then flatmate helped run. That sleazy edge on many tunes seems to have been lost.
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Nowt wrong with tech house. Would I want to listen to it all night? No, but little different from most genres.
I think those who think it’s a pile of crap now only think of Solomun, Luciano, Jamie Jones etc. There is still a deeper underground sound out there. The aptly name Underground in Ibiza is a venue of choice to hear the good stuff year in year out.
The Romanian djs there were pretty good years ago…
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my memory is a bit fuzzy but i was playing this one night and some goof came up to me and was like “i’ll give you $100 for that record”. i didn’t believe him and gave him the GTFO face, and then he opened his wallet and started counting out twenties.
i took his cash and handed the record to him and figured i’d go and buy another one for $9 but y’know what? i never did.
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They still are. Rhadoo and Petre Inspirescu still leading the way but loads of amazing younger talent coming from that scene. Way too many to mention in fact showing how healthy it is. Lots of regular nights on in London and Birmingham etc so the scene is strong in the UK too.
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Absolutely. Lots of new talented young producers out there taking the standard tech house template and giving it their twist in classy ways. A lot of the stuff is actually very well produced. To name a few: Youandewan, Ron Obvious, Huerta. Will listen to your mix @dreamdrums
Moxie’s show on NTS is a good entry point for new tech house for anyone interested.
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Telewhirl on his New Air Pigments EP is lovely.
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was never massively into RPR. Big fan of their compatriots Khidja though, albeit far removed from “tech house”
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Raresh is not for me but the other two, DJ’ing on their own, no b2b2b2b2b can be a treat.
I just don’t get it honestly when you can easily access mystic bill and Derrick Carter tapes online these days. O.H.M Oceanic in that RA video is a classic, as is everything on Fresh Fruit, dobra and jamez, tata box inhibitors, obvs all the Pure Science stuff is classic, but gotta rep the Edmondton North London crew. With all of those examples, they can easily be filed in deep house or deep techno categories. To me tech house seemed like a step mostly backwards, a lot of Terry Francis mixes leave me quite nonplussed, 1 good tune amongst 3-4 fillers, rinse repeat. Maybe I’m young enough to have not seen him in his prime, but the documentary record really seems to signal a geeky English boy lack of abandon to me.
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of course Pure Science himself is none other than the co-partner in the Scientist, Pure Science and DJ Nut Nut, so the hardcore/jungle pedigree did him good when he transitioned to house. Unlike some closed minded boys in certain FB groups, who I will not name on here.
To be honest I have never heard Terry Francis DJ in my life or listened to a mix of his so can’t comment. I enjoy the tech house/deep tech/minimal or whatever people choose to call it sound that was from Eastern Europe (Romania) in main so came at it from a different angle. It’s got a nice hypnotic vibe to it that probably lacks in the quintessential tech house sound they are discussing here.
The problem with this video is they think ‘their’ tech house sound was the only one and it has morphed into this horrific soul-less shite I have pre mentioned from the likes of Jamie Jones and Solomun et al but what actually happened was the underground stayed underground and there is ace music still being made.
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As is the case with every genre. There’s always good music being made and played, it has its moment in the sun and then overexposure.
There’s always great music within to be discovered.
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Im a tech house dj since 2000s. Im still playing it, listening it, believin it, lovin it.
These might help you to understand what happened to Tech House. Its all political.
http://itsrosh.nfshost.com/letter/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74wlkDluLN0
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I think we’re all saying the same thing. The original point of this post was that the original “tech house” sound was more of a feeling & attitude, and a mixture of different sounds as opposed to the dull, generic & one dimensional sound that generally gets labelled as tech house these days.
Totally agree there are amazing records being made by new producers such as the aforementioned Huerta, & also people like Gene on Earth, Desert Sound Colony etc.
Vive la difference!
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yeah, I mean I like quite a lot of that early Perlon/force trax sound out of Germany, although these days I need to be in a specific mood to put it on, but they always seemed to understand that one could strip it right back and still use weird glitches bleeps and bloops to create that less is more feel. I’m not sure if the Eastern European crews are continuing in that lineage, though like most things I feel like once a scenes got rules its time to break them already.
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