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not being into the scene at the time and not being in england i'd like to know how big was the techstep stuff in the clubs and big raves at the time? did the no u turn stuff get played out by everybody? did the clubs generally get dark down and dirty with techstep for an extended period of time? coz many nights of that just seems too much!
I can only really speak from going to Metalheadz @ the bluenote, but the tune that really signaled a change in direction was Doc Scott's 'Shadowboxing' - it just sounded like nothing else, it was so dark and sparse compared to everthing else. However, most DJs were playing a mixture of stuff as the tech-step sound creeped in... this was what I loved most about Jungle up to '97, was that you could hear a jazzy tune by Carlito or Intense and then 10 minutes later you'd hear Ed Rush's 'Mothership', then maybe 10 minutes later there would be some badass bass roller on Juice played, It was truly open-minded.
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.