UK Tech House

leamas

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Been clearing out some records recently and going back through some old UK tech house. There was a whole scene which got trampled in the wake of minimal house and techno, spearheaded by people like Terry Francis, Grant Dell, Asad Rizvi, 'Evil' Eddie Richards, Nathan Coles and Gideon Jackson.

They were all prolific up until around 2003 when minimal began to really take off and a whole new breed of producers came through. Admittedly they shoved out loads of toss and made some really boring music at times, but going back through the tunes I've been reminded of a couple of corkers. Has anyone else got any favourites from similar heads (excluding US producers like Hipp-e and Halo, Onionz etc)?

Blue Wig - No Ignorance (Eye 4 Sound)

Sarah Jane Morris - Ever Going To Make It - Terry Francis Dub (Poodle)

Eddie Richards - Garage Sessions vol.1 (Lifted Music)

Layo and Bushwacka - Low Life - Departure Lounge Remix (End Records)

Two Right Wrongans - Sorry Mate You've Got The Wrong House (Wrong)
 

Noah Baby Food

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little bit earlier, but would you count the Swag records amongst this, like Drum Hydraulics and Dark Corners? I think you should. This really WAS the shit mid to late 90s - clubs like Wiggle etc. Grew out of the trippier end of US house. Very good stuff, not sure how some of it dates now though. Man, all these guys are South Coast, my original ends - Evil Eddie Richards, Terry Francis...remember Pete Couzens? Not sure if he ever produced, but he repped this sound to the fullest.
 

leamas

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little bit earlier, but would you count the Swag records amongst this, like Drum Hydraulics and Dark Corners? I think you should. This really WAS the shit mid to late 90s - clubs like Wiggle etc.

Yes to Swag. Great producers. Will be digging out Drum Hydraulics shortly. Saw Chris Duckenfield play not so long ago and he was ace. Never went to Wiggle, which I now regret, but Eukatech used to do these basement sessions in a pub off Oxford St which were always proper.

Grew out of the trippier end of US house.

Who do you have in mind?
 

Noah Baby Food

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I phrased that wrongly really, what I meant was, the DJs who pushed that kinda sound (at least down South) were previously playing stuff like MK, Strictly Rhythm stuff, US garage, MAW, bits of Todd Terry etc, but late 92 (not so coincidentally, when those mindfuck Snowball Es came out) the sound got harder, techier, more 'proggy' (but not 'epic')...which kinda led to the UK tech-house thing, I think. Look at Aubrey, he used to be an (excellent) garage DJ, then tech'ed things right up...

...here's an excerpt of a set by Pete Couzens from a White Sugar rave in Bognor (my hometown FOR MY SINS...), June 1993...now while this is not tech house as such, it shows how the music was changing from the US flavours to a tougher, druggier variant. It's only a small file:

Pete Couzens and MC Rusty, White Sugar June 1993

If anyone knows what the daft tune is that uses the 2Bad Mice "Bombscare" organ noise, please tell me coz I like it!
 

dominic

Beast of Burden
If anyone knows what the daft tune is that uses the 2Bad Mice "Bombscare" organ noise, please tell me coz I like it!

don't know the tune, i'm afraid -- but that organ sound was simply part of the house/rave DNA -- or rather, a sound one would often hear on breakbeat hardcore and prog house tracks, but not on "proper" techno or deep house -- nice track though
 
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mixed_biscuits

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I've got some nice tunes by Mr C that probably sit in this genre - eg Ascension, The Birds and the Bees - lots of work gone into the tracks, lovely stuff, recommended.
 

dominic

Beast of Burden
not my cup of tea, i.e., i wouldn't collect these records today

but at the time those were cool parties . . .
 
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