late 90s tech-step

Pearsall

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Speaking of Dillinja, I've always wished that this tune had made it to wax; it only ever came out on cd in Japan. Big tune!

 

thirdform

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i still wish tech step had crossed with hard acid, pcp sttyle gloom and harsh noise to create the ultimate genre to scare off goldsmiths post-dubstep diaspora and crowleys mates who have relocated here.
 

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i hadn't heard this one from peshay ill be honest until i found a bryan gee tape on the hd, wow fucking horrible sax. at least jump up has some teath to it, can imagine getting on it with the lads. its shit like that killed the jazz/soul jungle sound, like u can't just lay the blame at techstep. who wants to dance to 80s porn soundtrack?

 

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@luka u gotta hear this mate it's really bad.

reinforced (ha) my love for those early drumfunk/choppage guys. drumfunk is autistic jungle but so what.
 

luka

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@luka u gotta hear this mate it's really bad.

reinforced (ha) my love for those early drumfunk/choppage guys. drumfunk is autistic jungle but so what.

yeah sorry i did actually this morning. i meant to comment but i got distracted. you've unearthed a nugget.
 

thirdform

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Torque was great for sure, a slice of an era.
I still remember the first time i heard the Replicantz remix...so gross.

A label that time has mostly forgotten but I really dug back then was Audio Blueprint.
Very dark and atmospheric, predated the more techno-influenced techstep sound of the very late 90's early 00's.

yeh, amazing label that, detroit techno-y version of techstep, ruff anti-soul cyborg soul. a direction that was not so explored after fast car mania took off. Pendulum as well. fucking stupid aussie rock music cunts, we would have forgotten about spaced invader if it was not for them.
 

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i still wish tech step had crossed with hard acid, pcp sttyle gloom and harsh noise to create the ultimate genre to scare off goldsmiths post-dubstep diaspora and crowleys mates who have relocated here.

Still stand by this. I blame the dissensus olg guard for returning to an urban version of Jamiroquai soul boyism. soul is fantastic, some of the best music in the world, but not new soul. it died in 1985-1987 when acid house was invented and a new innovation on par with the delta blues took place in the african american musical continuum. the true soul head is a digger, not a revivalist. I don't just disrespect the quai, I take a massive shit in his dads garden whilst listening to johnny l piper grooverider mix.
 

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It wasn't really Tech-step that killed the old school vibe for me, more when tech-step got crossed with Jump Up and hoardes of youngun's started making boring, 2-step tunes with preset soft-synth b-lines and drum machine beats.

I think there's some accuracy there. I remember the subtle transition to utter tedium between 96 and 97 at a semi-famous d&b club night in Leeds that I attended weekly. It was on my 19th birthday that I suddenly realised how fucking dire things had got. In an endless stream of tech-step and jump-up tunes that ended, finally, at about 3am, I picked out about 3 different ideas. Your average jungle tune from 1994 would have about 3 ideas every 10 seconds! I decamped to Northern Soul clubs promptly, and my life improved beyond measure. Apart from anything else, it was fun to dance to. I mean, this is supposed to be dance music, right?


Craner outs himself as an EDM fan!
 

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I hated Warhead back in the day, and I still do. In late 1997 I heard this EVERY night, at least the first few seconds. It is one of those "toilet tracks" meaning the DJ dropping it ususally sent me to the toilets immediately.

Funny bc I consider Krust to be a top producer - aside from the horrible Warhead. I have quite a collection of his work still on my shelves.


warhead is annoying and pavlovian but it doesn't rival the utter shitness of the lighter, which was 95 (theme from love story beethoven piano the real gentrification in jump up amirite?) as soon as that piano comes in I'm out. my mate once played it luckily mixed it straight into arsonist 95 and i started jumping around like a loon again otherwise i was so fucked on rum i was gonna punch him in the balls.
 
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thirdform

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Ive made the argument that the early 90's were an unusually brilliant time for all music, dancehall, hiphop, techno, jungle... but that said, the late 90s were brilliant for garage.

Looking at discog dates, I think I have to recalibrate the death knell of d+b back to the end of '96, early 97 at the latest. I remember buying those two cybernet and genetix 12"'s along with the two Tonic 12"s on SOUR that came out at the same time. I couldve sworn it was dec 97.


ironically the most primo garage is the least reggae stuff, dem 2, steve gurley etc. the fragmented rnb-house stuff. like those german boys never having discovered detroit and having to reduce their diva house creations to the minimum with only todd edwards as a reference.

and of course, menta - sounds of da future nervous refix white label 2003. defined the future that one. ambient jungle for my generation.

 

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I can see how if you were into jungle in the early - mid 90s techstep would seem like a regressive, joyless betrayal of promise.

Corpse outs droid and co. as 92 happy hardcore fans, sheer genius. love you mate! 🔫 🔫 🔫 come back.
 

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ed rush's finest moment. the sound of travelling through pipes and sewers. real futurist realism. better than force is electric remix even. sounds like it could have come out on downwards yesterday.

 
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