late 90s tech-step

Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
What depresses me about it is that TO ME it's the sound of indulging in weed paranoia :crylarf:

Although obvs that isn't true for others. At the same time I get the feeling some of the guys making this were extremely stoned and probably suffering unacknowledged depression. Nothing wrong with that ofc, just a zone I don't like to dwell in too much.
 
luka

luka

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It's definitely a skynet future. A mechanoid foot stamping on a human face forever lol
 
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
Corpsey said:
That's why that scrillex shit is more the sound of now, cos now the machines have got smiley faces painted on
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not when you're blind they don't. i had to go through my screen readers dictionary and make sure that whenever I typed ": D" like this :D it would say open mouthed smile. the machines are still mechanistic, you are just seduced by them, I am by necessity not.
 
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Pearsall

Prodigal Son
well, I just did a mix of this stuff for those who are so inclined:

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Tracklisting:

01. Optical - To Shape The Future (Remix) (Metalheadz)
02. Jonny L - Piper (XL Recordings)
03. Mampi Swift - 2nd Strike (True Playaz)
04. Decoder - Twister (Tech Itch)
05. Zenith - Immortal (Frontline)
06. Ed Rush - Density (Metalheadz)
07. Dom & Roland - Swarm (Dubs from the Dungeons)
08. Cybotron feat. Dillinja - Light Years (Prototype)
09. Roni Size & Reprazent - Share The Fall (Grooverider's Jeep Style Mix) (Talkin' Loud)
10. Trace & Nico - Replicant (Idiosyncratic)
11. Trace & Nico - Amtrak (Nu Black)
12. Elementz of Noize - Other Side of Town (SOUR)
13. Technical Itch - The Virus (Moving Shadow)
14. Desired State - Invasion (Ram)
15. Dillinja - Armoured D (Metalheadz)
16. Dylan - Virus (Droppin' Science)
17. Future Forces Inc - Symetrix (Renegade Hardware)
18. Dom & Roland - Parasite (Moving Shadow)
19. The Limit - Get Stoned (Emotif)
20. The Specialist - Drop It On The One (Dread)
21. Stakka & K-Tee - Andromeda (Liftin' Spirit)
22. MTS - Hard Disk (Juice)
23. Bad Company - Brain Scan (BC Recordings)
24. Source Direct - Enemy Lines (Science)
25. Dom & Rob - Distorted Dreams (Moving Shadow)
 
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kumar

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what do you lot reckon about this guy? i dont know if hes been brought up here before. his tunes feel steeped in similar sonics to the stuff mentioned here, although the drums tend to flex around and disappear down different tunnels rather than plod along. there are a few records out now, the more recent ones have been more straightforward linear smash hits style but ive been excited by all of them.






especially on these ones, with the metallic delay that seeps in and out of the tracks, you have these hi hats like those amplified recordings of ants chirping that trail in and out, and these low frequency rushes like sonification of solar wind. you get pulled between the scale of geomagnetic storms and insects talking to eachother, beetles stridulating.

recommend us some stuff like this please cheers
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
luka said:
not my fault you were late son!
i don't know anyone who was still listening to drum and bass in 95. (not inclusing craner) it amazes me that anyone could have stuch with it that long it really does.
did you actually like that whole jump-up era? it was shit! it was so corny! you started getting pirates playing garage in what? 96, 97? 96 probably. so why still listening to d&b? the mind boggles... then you started getting timbaland coming through... there was alternatives! options! d&b was no longer necessary. the raves were shit. metalheadz at blue note was shit. blue note was shit full stop. everything was shit. progression sessions and all that, fuck off! world dance, all the big ones, all shit. movement shit, speed, shit, everything shit! hated it.
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Legendary post 😂
 
dilbert1

dilbert1

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luka said:
jump-up killed this music long before tech-step got invented. jump-up was easily as bad, almost worse.
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luka said:
i was absolutely consumed by hardocre/jungle fromm 91-94. so yeah, i was into it. i loved it to death. i had more kool fm tapes in my bedroom than you've ever seen in your life.
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droid said:
Whats Babylon?????

If you don't know then you really shouldn't be making comments about the state of jungle in 1995! :D
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luka said:
i defienyl would have heard it, thats why i asked what it is. you're supposed to go, thats the one that goes, woo ooh ooh, then has a vocal sample going, bun down babylon
and then i go
oh! that one, yeah i remember that tune, it was quite good as it goes...
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luka said:
i didn't even like super sharp shooter, put it that way. that to me, and other tunes like it were the death of jungle.
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‘08 luka was cooking! Giant Ls for droid, posterity has not shown you mercy! Nice one craner on jump up’s corny hip-hop aggressiveness. Closer to the glory days, my musings are but degenerate fourth wind echoes of such lucid pronouncements
 
dilbert1

dilbert1

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version said:
The title track off this EP's an odd one, like techstep reduced to mainly the bass.

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While I find the monolithic beastly mid-bass fiddling a little retrograde I’d bump these two over the Reaper tunes Corpsey posted at this point, more fun to listen to. The jock elements and aesthetically illiterate Sin City/Watchmen packaging are at least mediated, in the case of the tune above, by some attempt at being strange. At 3 and a half in there’s even basically a full minute of silence, its closer to approaching something radical even in its tech-step meathead gaucheness rather than reposing in self-satisfied tasteful coolness
 
dilbert1

dilbert1

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What’s funny is when fans of Benny L refer to “classic Dillinja” this is the kind of track they have in mind, whereas the retro jungle in its imitation of the music in its earlier more dynamic period is approaching just this kind of rote staleness

 
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
dilbert1 said:
‘08 luka was cooking! Giant Ls for droid, posterity has not shown you mercy! Nice one craner on jump up’s corny hip-hop aggressiveness. Closer to the glory days, my musings are but degenerate fourth wind echoes of such lucid pronouncements
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love how you edited out the bit in that super sharp shooter post about how even ragga jungle was a death knell in some senses as it started to drag.

I mean, all dance music genres start to drag, but it's funny how tenacious the septics are about this.
 
wektor

wektor

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kumar said:
what do you lot reckon about this guy? i dont know if hes been brought up here before. his tunes feel steeped in similar sonics to the stuff mentioned here, although the drums tend to flex around and disappear down different tunnels rather than plod along. there are a few records out now, the more recent ones have been more straightforward linear smash hits style but ive been excited by all of them.






especially on these ones, with the metallic delay that seeps in and out of the tracks, you have these hi hats like those amplified recordings of ants chirping that trail in and out, and these low frequency rushes like sonification of solar wind. you get pulled between the scale of geomagnetic storms and insects talking to eachother, beetles stridulating.

recommend us some stuff like this please cheers
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I remember enjoying Naco a lot when I had a phase of listening to slightly off-kilter breaks, ie. walking home from Ormside after NYE 2019/202:

generally this label is something I'm quite into when it comes that type of funky but somehow still minimal and techy sound:
 
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