What Happened To Tech House? | Resident Advisor
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3 жыл бұрынThe story behind the most misunderstood genre in dance music.
For well over a decade, tech house was commonly assumed to be a byword for uninspired, cookie-cutter dance music. Combining techno's outer-space sensibility with the swung grooves of house, tech house became largely associated with big room commercial clubs, and the term was often casually used as a pejorative to describe any mid-tempo dance music thought to be in bad taste. But in recent years, that's started to change.
A new generation of DJs have been rediscovering the '90s productions that initially defined the tech house sound, tracks that are a million miles away from what the style transformed into as the 2000s progressed. Many modern listeners wouldn't think to associate these timeless tracks with what tech house became, which begs the question: what happened? What was tech house in the first place? Where did it come from? Why did it change? And why is it back? In this video essay, the DJs and producers who built the culture, watched it decay and reemerge, set the record straight.
Narrator: Moxie
Writer: Ray Philp
Editor: Sophie Misrahi
Dubbing Mixer: Guy Clarke
Motion Graphics: Lawrie Miller
Music Consultant: Dave Mothersole
Archive Footage/Images:
Dafina Krstevska Richards / dy-na-mix
One2 Watch Media
Kappa FuturFestival
Mark Anthony Tarling
Mile Staniskovski
Lucianocadenza
Twistedbobby
Boing Poum Tchak!
DJ Mag
Nicole Moudaber
Miami Music Week
Conkermon
Joe Dawson
Bruw69
Maria Harlow
Mickysheffield
Tomorrowland
Get Physical Music
Auroom Record Label
Sunwaves Festival
PIRATE.COM
Boiler Room
Music in order of appearance:
O.H.M. - Oceanic (Original Mix) [Defective Records] 1995
Housey Doingz - Gobstopper [Wiggle Classics] 1996
E-Dancer - World of Deep [Play It Again Sam] 1998
Pure Science - Say It [Pure Science Communications] 1999
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray [Warlock Records] 1988
LFO - LFO [Warp Records] 1990
Baby D - Let me be your Fantasy [Production House] 1992
Leviticus - Burial [Philly Blunt Records] 1994
Goldie - Innercity Life [FFRR] 1994
Loco Dice - Definition (Nic Fanciulli Remix) 2010
M.A.N.D.Y. vs Booka Shade - Body Language [Get Physical Music] 2005
Two Right Wrongans - System Error (Original Mix) [Neotropiq] 2018
Asad Rizvi - Dual (Bushwacka! Remix) [Reverberations] 2005
@kaerustation 3 жыл бұрын
This is always the same story, commercial appeal that overshadow or destroy an entire genre. Long live to the underground! Stay real
@salvature 3 жыл бұрын
OMG youre so real. Lol, why just not let people enjoy music? Commercial or not who cares 🤷🏻♂️
@wobbler6372 3 жыл бұрын
It becomes main stream because the producers start chasing money. .
@kaerustation 3 жыл бұрын
@@salvature do you feel insecure about something in my comment?🤷🏻♂️ Never talked about the right to enjoy commercial music or not.
@djdeepkanga1245 3 жыл бұрын
@@salvature To be "real" is to be invested in something. POP culture is not invested, theyre there becaus its the hip thing to do and they poison the evioerment with theyre cell phones, and posing. This goes for both the DJ/producers and the guests. Berlin might be the last "real" place on earth thats operating on a grand scale IMO.
@pedroh.3624 3 жыл бұрын
nowadays all tech house sounds exactly the same. pre made loops killed this genre.
@monat_son 3 жыл бұрын
It's not about tech-house being bad, it's just about good tracks and shit tracks.
@salvature 3 жыл бұрын
💯
@serratos97 3 жыл бұрын
Agree. Sometimes I struggle finding under tech house songs, do you have a playlist I can check ??
@faasteddie 3 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@MusicalMemeology 3 жыл бұрын
Journalism today seems to be this formula; make up a premise, then create a whole story about the made up premise.
@benjamingring621 3 жыл бұрын
And shit snares
@yofacundito 3 жыл бұрын
Tech house, Deep house, Dubstep, DnB, Trance, all put down by the unwillingness to dig for good music, nowadays all newbie DJs wanting to set up a party as quickly as possible with the fastest collected commercial music from a "trusted" cookie cutter label
@totaldeparture7848 3 жыл бұрын
I see posts on music groups on Facebook where people literally just expect to be spoonfed "banger tracks" without doing any of the digging themselves. lol.
@timchromecast 3 жыл бұрын
Agree 100%, it's all about instant success on social media. Not for the love of music.
@xaviergms2225 3 жыл бұрын
Nailed it mate!!
@cristiancummings9852 3 жыл бұрын
@@totaldeparture7848 it’s all about the digging. If a DJ digs and finds his music he enjoys playing it more to their crowd and it becomes a good set apposed to them playing whatever has the biggest drop and whatever keeps the crowd interested
@wwlittlejOfficial 3 жыл бұрын
Add minimal, to that. Nothing fucking stays underground. If ur music is being played at a dark club with maybe 200 people, chances it's good...at a flowery lite bright festival with 100k attendees? Disposable garbage.
@bohemianvillage676 2 жыл бұрын
Part of the confusion comes from the fact that for many people techhouse simply means "minimal with a proper kick drum"... Since Kevin Saunderson was mentioned: one could argue that the first literal 'tech house' tracks were actually the Inner City hits "Big Fun" and "Good Life". They had the Detroit techno production combined with the soul and groove of Chicago house. In those days, the producers didn't really think of house and techno as separate genres, and some of the early Detroit techno pioneers even said that this distinction was a marketing thing invented by European music journalists.
@tawkinhedz 9 ай бұрын
Yes
@fusion01wp 9 ай бұрын
Tech house wasn’t just minimal but often very soulful. I disagree that it was influenced heavily by techno, I’d say equal measures house and techno.
@JimmyHandtrixx 9 ай бұрын
Yes 'techno' was used by a UK label for a 1988 compilation to distinguish between Chicago 'house' . It was originally just going to say 'detroit house '
@MastiksoulTV 3 жыл бұрын
Happy to see some hold friends like Gideon , Eddie Richards, Liz, Nathan Coles, Asad Rizvi and list goes on. Proud to have been part of this era. Congratulations for this video, it truly describes the real scene as it was. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@engidiogo 3 жыл бұрын
Saudades desses tempos!
@tommiedigitsen1734 3 жыл бұрын
4 kenzo and Kitsam was one of my favorite labels Greetzzz Mastik :)
@detroittechno7904 3 жыл бұрын
Good to see someone who actually knows Tech-House originators are. Respect mate. Terry Francis and Nathan coles we are forever grateful.
@Chuggnuts 3 жыл бұрын
I'm proud to own a load of your productions ❤
@analogikkortex 3 жыл бұрын
Fofa-se ainda me lembro de ouvir faixas tuas e pensar eram muito boas com grande groove. Bem sei que agora deves ser avô e tens netos para sustentar mas fazer umas coisinhas underground de vez em quando para mostrares ao pessoal o que era bom tech-house ao pessoal mai novo só te ficava bem. Qualquer coisa Respública, Santarém. De qualquer maneira obrigado pelos bons momentos que proporcionaste à 10-20 anos...
@YUSSEB8E 3 жыл бұрын
As soon as producers started making it mandatory to have 32bars - 8 bar break - 32bar-16 bar breakdown- outro for productions, it was game over. Linear approaches to any music sterilise genres .
@wouterderogee6839 3 жыл бұрын
There is still a lot of good music produced, you just have to dig deeper.
@serratos97 3 жыл бұрын
Agree, don't listen to the top songs in beatport
@matisonntag7347 3 жыл бұрын
totally agree
@MrJackNose 3 жыл бұрын
Thats for sure
@drifter402 3 жыл бұрын
We're in a great time right now
@DysmorphicP 3 жыл бұрын
That's the thing with tech house... You have to dig so deep that listening to 100 tracks to get 1 that is good, that listening to 99 shit tracks is definitely not worth it and completely frustrating.
@jogolock1190 3 жыл бұрын
Been listening to House and Techno since 1986, I just love all forms of House and Techno. Still going in 2021 so all good :)
@mihajlosinka1974 3 жыл бұрын
1:58 PartiBoi69 is enjoying himself some tech-house
@scuffeddeimos 3 жыл бұрын
Nice find!
@ir3836 3 жыл бұрын
hahahahahha
@zsauffi 3 жыл бұрын
😃 wooo
@billbrasky8525 3 жыл бұрын
Love PB69
@spiritlevelstudios 3 жыл бұрын
lol
@totaldeparture7848 3 жыл бұрын
Just like every trendy genre, most recently techno, there's two different faces to it- you have the poppy cookie cutter big room sound, and then you've got the more innovative underground stuff. They might as well be two different genres at this point. The old school records Raresh plays and the Ibiza chart house that say Marco Carola plays are two different worlds. No disrespect, but you don't go to a Marco Carola set expecting to hear innovation.
@davidvujnovic7251 3 жыл бұрын
Very well said.
@DaviMartins99 3 жыл бұрын
Word. Deep House went through the same process. Psytrance is going through it too, specially the Proggy side of it.
@von... 3 жыл бұрын
@@DaviMartins99 who would you say came out as 'king of the underground' in the deep house explosion? like who really was doing different stuff, but it worked? in your opinion of course, this isnt a loaded question & I dont expect any specific answer lol
@maxiqums1549 3 жыл бұрын
yes, techno is basically you either choose Jeff Mills or you choose Drumcode, that’s fun. Deep House you choose Larry Heard/Timewriter or you choose Beatport Top 100. Progressive you choose Sasha and Digweed or you choose Deadmau5. Tech House you choose Terry Francis/Jark Prongo or you choose I don’t know Nic Fanciulli!?
@DaviMartins99 3 жыл бұрын
@@von... definitely Larry Heard. His work is the foundation of Deep House.
@tregellis1 3 жыл бұрын
Beatport happened
@gunhandler11 3 жыл бұрын
*how can you say something so controversial yet so brave*
@oliverschmidt1988 3 жыл бұрын
hahahaha nice one ! so true
@totaldeparture7848 3 жыл бұрын
It's true tho, for a while there they were sticking commercial pop EDM in with any old category and calling it a day. Misled an entire generation into thinking Martin Garrixx was progressive house lol
@maxkusmierek7820 3 жыл бұрын
@@totaldeparture7848 very accurate
@alexanderliu9376 3 жыл бұрын
@@totaldeparture7848 I mean I like Beatport but I must agree their genre labelling is awful... it's all run by algorithm nowadays, no second opinion
@LAskeHosting 3 жыл бұрын
Labels are main reason why it died, look at top100 tech house labels, they don't want to release anything that doesn't sound same as their other generic tech House. Just random play to their releases and yo will see that deference between tracks are so minimal almost non existent... Label's made it generic and if you try to change anything they will tell you: not the sound we are currently looking for. And there you go... The death of techhouse featured with tons of generic tracks that sound the same and have nothing new to show... Shame, it was great genre once
@justroco 3 жыл бұрын
Totally agree, that’s what happens when the business side takes over the artistic expression.
@faasteddie 3 жыл бұрын
IT IS NOT DEAD! FYI. Hahahaha Just play the good tracks. ;-)
@spiritlevelstudios 3 жыл бұрын
@@faasteddie yeh exactly. The amount of music that is not top 100 is a much larger and more diverse pool to draw from. When you write it yourself, and have no locked in label, you can make it sound however you want.
@teknik12k 3 жыл бұрын
"Deep House" suffered the same fate as "Tech House" it's all just buzzword bingo where the "genre" gets slapped on whatever sound even when it's not it. fwiw I grew up in detroit in the early 90s and have always been a fan of both. It's only a problem when trying to browse on juno and finding a bunch of commercial crap pop up
@brunkonjaa 3 жыл бұрын
That's why we have KZfaq :) "JohnnyM in the mix" and "Gentleman Deep House" are a breath of fresh air imo
@Leo-mu8kn 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly. I discovered deep house around 2010 and love it but its hard to find the sound i liked back then, and now the tag is just edm BS
@pippo-1073 3 жыл бұрын
Trance is the biggest victim. I'm in a classic Trance group on fb and everything is Trance apparently. Even DJ producers call their stuff Trance when it isn't.
@Pllayer064 3 жыл бұрын
good thing that my genre of choise is _norwegian abstract death folk post-genre self-identify juke_ and it's pretty niche.
@Hoaqxin 3 жыл бұрын
it's even worse with "techno" in general. Many many people like to call any electronic song techno, especially eurodance/hands-up. I don't know when or why that started, but it's annoying me since.
@MaicPiani 3 жыл бұрын
I totally love how you connected the dots of 30 years of music in a 10 minutes video.
@totaldeparture7848 3 жыл бұрын
Let's be real though, like a fraction of those who've already seen it would have watched it if it was an hour long piece. I would love if they made it a series, but there is something to be said for the digestibility of short concise videos like this
@jadeduh4555 3 жыл бұрын
@@totaldeparture7848 🤏🏼 I get it though..
@Moskalus 3 жыл бұрын
Terry Lee Brown Jr. should have been mentioned too! I still have love for the mid 00’s tech house sound, 07-09 were great years! That 90’s sound is still being made today, you just have to digg!
@mosonic 3 жыл бұрын
Love him. His album »From Dub Til Dawn« is one of my favorites.
@Leo-mu8kn 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah everyone copying dj seinfeld doesn't ever get old /s
@maxiqums1549 3 жыл бұрын
driftwood label legendary releases
@teddyjones3652 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly you can’t trawl through beatport top 100 and expect to find good stuff
@sacredflames07 3 жыл бұрын
Your comment is much appreciated here 🙌🏾👍🏾🙇🏽♂️🙏🏾cuz only true listeners can save what's yet to originate
@NordineHateuf 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing 10 minutes content. Loved the authenticity of the documentary - well narrated and on spot. Thanks a lot, now I have something to show my friends who don't understand what true Tech House is.
@rrotik 3 жыл бұрын
genre confusion was caused by digital stores mostly beatport mislabeling in the late 2000’s. Same thing happened with big room - they were labeled as “progressive house” which honestly have very little to do with one another. Same will happen with the new Minimal and Micro that romanian sound, bandwagoners will wash it out
@alexanderliu9376 3 жыл бұрын
absolutely dude!!! summed it up just about right
@destryo3287 Жыл бұрын
I swear to god EVERY Techno Track I want to download is "peak time techno" or "techno" even tho I buy Hardtrance, Acidcore, Early Hardstyle, Hard Techno, Industial Techno. Like Beatport cmon what the actual fuck how is Hardtrance similar to Techno except the 4/4 kick?
@harveyaustin898 3 жыл бұрын
God do I love being from Croydon a place with such rich music history that 100% goes unnoticed
@MrBillRizer 3 жыл бұрын
The Black Sheep bar alone had a huge variety of genres. All types of DJs, local bands, jam nights, the lot.
@debycarter6694 3 жыл бұрын
Lived in Croydon in the 90's for years at the time Swag & Apple Record shops were open. Both run by very good friends of mine Liz Edwards (RIP), Stubsy, John Kennedy.. Wicked memories..
@debycarter6694 3 жыл бұрын
@@MrBillRizer I djayed in there :)
@jmedved 3 жыл бұрын
@@debycarter6694 qrķ
@MrBillRizer 3 жыл бұрын
@@debycarter6694 Awesome, I may have been there when you did :) The Cartoon is definitely worth a mention, I played there in a band quite a few times, which changed to Cool Rooms. I worked in the HMV in West Croydon, but Beanos was a regular visit for us :)
@rrpal10 3 жыл бұрын
Well done, RA. Super informative and well put together video. I learned a lot . Thank you
@dannyjacobsen6362 3 жыл бұрын
Great little docu, not choosing sides, just giving some well-needed shine to the origins of this genre. Mad respect for Silverlining too!
@dryad9821 3 жыл бұрын
Catching a Terry Francis set in London was always a killer vibe...Also worth a mention Trevor Rockliffe, Colin Dale, Mr G, G Flame, Halcyon Daze. Still rockin!
@stefanvansteenberge 3 жыл бұрын
they have nothing to do with the recent tech-house. that was good music.
@MrCamparisafari 3 жыл бұрын
yessss big up trevor rockcliffe !! and billy nasty
@EmilyMoyer 2 жыл бұрын
Totally….
@5ystemError 3 жыл бұрын
The popularity of tech house is what really surprised me. At least with commercial dubstep you could kind of tell the tracks apart
@maxiqums1549 3 жыл бұрын
it was the original sound of UK labels such as “Wiggle”, “Fresh Fruit”, early Craig Richards and Terry Francis. Now the Tech House is basically beatport top 100 garbage, you hear it once and completely forget about it the second later
@mistateearuba 3 жыл бұрын
Fresh Fruit is Dutch. Founded by DJ Zki & Dobre a.k.a The Good men, a.k.a Chocolate Puma, a.k.a Rene et Gaston, a.k.a Jark Prongo. Not from UK ;)
@anthonyteasdale8541 3 жыл бұрын
Very true - Circulation records in Kingston, too. Loved Fresh Fruit, even better was Touché - home of 51 Days.
@wwlittlejOfficial 3 жыл бұрын
Disposible, not timeless
@mikesurrealparsons7123 3 жыл бұрын
used to help out in swag, loved it and the wealth of music tucked away in the bins was amazing. really looked forward to going there every weekend and checking out what had been put by for me. great to see stubsy in the video and the lovely liz.
@debycarter6694 3 жыл бұрын
All seems not that long ago really does it Mike x
@LordMarlle 3 жыл бұрын
Swayzak made 5 or so of my all time favorites, tracks I still listen to regularly, and never seem to tire out.
@hasgoodles7807 3 жыл бұрын
They are in a class by themselves.
@dubrazor 3 жыл бұрын
Swayzak, one of my favorites ever. I was lucky to hear them live in Argentina.
@purescience3538 3 жыл бұрын
Thanx for the mention RA x
@adammushnick6667 3 жыл бұрын
Loved your track
@purescience3538 3 жыл бұрын
@@adammushnick6667 Thanx matee and please visit and subscribe to our youtube channel for more links to music and videos.. ;-)
@bobcarolgees8278 3 жыл бұрын
Followed your music since The Exorcist & The Bee, absolutely cained We Must Feel, Brighter Days, Fight Against Opression & Constandit in the 90s. Some of the best tracks around in those days.
@anthg4331 3 жыл бұрын
@@bobcarolgees8278 100%
@becarmstrong7960 3 жыл бұрын
This doco needs to be like 10 times longer. I could watch this for hours! And would love to see some extended interviews please Resident Advisor!
@batican8367 9 ай бұрын
For everyone wondering, Dirtybird hijacked Techhouse, and now we have the contemporary Tech House that we all know. There’s your answer.
@danielnigrin 3 жыл бұрын
Great to see RA recognize our label, Defective Records, and the masterpiece O.H.M. track "Oceanic" right up front at the 0:35 mark. Respect RA!
@cedeezy 3 жыл бұрын
It’s true, some of the tech house tracks I hear are mad generic sounding but there are still DJs and producers who mix/create amazing tech house... U just have to take the time to find those tracks!
@MCTTABOB 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing format, would love to get watch similar short(or long) docs on more genres!
@accidentaltrigger 3 жыл бұрын
Great film shining light. I used to visit swag all the time, play records and hang out with Liz. A wonderful surprise to see her smile again x
@Scienide1995_Deep_and_Dub 3 жыл бұрын
The video article that has been needed a lot, I guess! 👍
@michael_shekhtman1djworldwide 3 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU RA for putting this piece about tech house together. Thanks for capturing the history for all of us
@fr3dicina 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video, thank you so much for putting this together!! :)
@goddsie41 3 жыл бұрын
Superb Wiggle Techouse goodness and mentions of the wonderful Heart and Soul..oh the memories ❤️
@mistateearuba 3 жыл бұрын
Music loses it's magic when a formula is applied to it to score hits. They usually start by taking the soul out. What's left is a generic sound that is liked by a larger crowd. It happens. The "good" stuff is still out there tho. You will feel it when you find it.
@noisevector 3 жыл бұрын
agreed. I love producers being true to their original sound and are just having fun making music and putting their soul in it, without them worrying about appealing to the masses and the size of their wallet. I will always stick to my olschool 90's detroit / birmingham techno and house influenced style because I like it, feel it and breath with it. If other people also like it, than that's great but not the goal.
@adriancioroianu1704 3 жыл бұрын
rominimal is the modern incapsulation of tech house. it has a vibrant underground scene and it has no vanity. the music itself is amazing.
@juanguibora3762 3 жыл бұрын
Could you name some of these artist?
@adriancioroianu1704 3 жыл бұрын
@@juanguibora3762 Sure Suciu, Herodot, SIT, Priku, Mihai Pol, Pîrvu, Cally, Nu Zau, Costin Rp and many more... There's a lot of each on soundcloud.
@adriancioroianu1704 3 жыл бұрын
@@juanguibora3762 And of course the classic RPR: Raresh, Petre Inspirescu, Rhadoo. But i guess you know about them already because they are mainstream for a long time.
@juanguibora3762 3 жыл бұрын
@@adriancioroianu1704 thank you very much for the info!
@Kayr311 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for putting this out, it needed to be addressed a long time ago. Cheers :)
@pakocards 3 жыл бұрын
Heady days down south London , Loved it. Thanks to all that were a part of it. The Wax club was one of my favourites. Trips to swag , RIP,Liz xx
@djsuploaded 3 жыл бұрын
Spent many many hours in Swag Records. Don’t forget that majority of the DJs on this film worked at Swag Records. Props to Colin Dale and Mr C as well.
@debycarter6694 3 жыл бұрын
Same here.. I used to live in Croydon & Swag was run by 2 of my friends, Liz Edwards (RIP) & Stubsy.. Miss those times..
@pascalwalls8131 3 жыл бұрын
Glad to Colin Dale getting a few mentions in this comments section. One of his sets at a Jeff Mills headlined Lost party remains the best set I've ever seen. Much more than just a tube station near Barnet.
@keendnb 3 жыл бұрын
There's always a blurry crossover in music styles and new names for a style because of specific sounds that get used, that's what makes music so great with never-ending possibility.
@aj5424 3 жыл бұрын
The fact that this doc exists shows it all eventually floats to the surface.
@chiefthomson 3 жыл бұрын
cool and interesting insight into Tech-House, many classic tracks in the video. Enjoyed this little documentary.
@CosticaKristianDiVogli 3 жыл бұрын
RIP Liz Edwards!
@dominicbarton2808 3 жыл бұрын
Tech house will never die when done properly!
@scottsetzke7967 9 ай бұрын
a couple years ago I was in a college pub playing a gig around 2016 when tropical house was the summer vibe and I decided to start playing 90's house tracks I'd bump them up a bit in ableton just so they fit the modern levels of other tracks and boy I'll tell you the Night and many after were absolute JAMS. Showing out with a live set that worked more like a waltz was the best part the process goes as follows step 1 - Play a current beatport track step 2 - mix into the 2007-2011 remix step 3 - mix into the Original Track It's a time machine that keeps going backwards in 3 parts so you are always working and never bored and at the same time you are sort of teaching your crowd a history lesson of where all these great tunes originated was. When I first tried this it was at an after hours and another dj 20+ my senior came up to me and said "Hey I hear what you are doing, you should do that at the club"
@gothakane 3 жыл бұрын
Loved this, so well researched and interesting
@cicabeca84 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Dave Mothersole for arranging the guest list for Fabric for me that night about 20 years ago on the night of the your childs birth. I think Terry Francis played his weekly residency that night. I still appreciate this gesture to this day! 🙏🏻 K.
@worldtraveller9839 3 жыл бұрын
Audiences like hearing new things so genres will always come and go... what’s the big deal? Nothing “happened” to Tech House, it’s still there, and you can listen to all of it online, and millions of people do.
@peradolia 3 жыл бұрын
I don’t think you know what’s going on
@maquettemusic1623 3 жыл бұрын
the association of all this commercial big room shit is downplaying the importance, origins and artistry of the original genre. Same happened to UK Dubstep when the US got hold of it.
@FEEDTHESTRAYMUSIC 3 жыл бұрын
My take too. Love the original tech house sound. But I also love the modern sound. For different reasons
@optiquemusic6204 3 жыл бұрын
Really, Tech-house is one of the last genres I would associate with Commercial Exploitation. Yeah, you'll get a 'Love Story' or 'Heater' every once in a while, but TH seems to be on that Surface Level of Underground Electronics (if that even makes sense).
@foodstampz 10 ай бұрын
Go listen to A craze for 5 hours
@herbherbal 3 жыл бұрын
great video!
@juanjodeejay8856 3 жыл бұрын
Gracias por el reportaje🙏❤️💯
@melinasibaja 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for such a wonderful short documentary
@DelFlo 3 жыл бұрын
Bass was always already the soul of techno... Juan Atkins was a bass player originally.
@blakecasimir 3 жыл бұрын
Shows in the beautiful melodicism of his 80s and 90s music. But that isn't cool any more apparently, one has to make minimal and "stripped down" tracks to fit into modern dance genres. Honestly f**k this snobbery.
@DelFlo 3 жыл бұрын
@@blakecasimir melodies for early and late night, stripped down in between is what works for me
@cooptrol 3 жыл бұрын
Middleground never goes away: not too spacey, not too dark, not too cheesy, not too fx, not too smooth, not too harsh, not too slow, not too fast, etc etc... This appeals to a percentage of the audience, people who like middleground things. This is not something bad, or good either.. not so bad, not so good...
@Scottygthreethousand 3 жыл бұрын
Indeed, the sound is actually quite hard to pin down/distinguish, because it is so middling on many elements. Perhaps it should be called Normcore! Ha. I actually really like good tech house records though.
@cooptrol 3 жыл бұрын
@@Scottygthreethousand I like it too! There's something my friends like to call "housetechno" that is not this kind of tech house, although it is clearly a mixture of house and techno.. maybe it takes other elements from those genres, completely different music
@Pllayer064 3 жыл бұрын
Maybe call it Emasculated Dance Music?
@bvedant 3 жыл бұрын
@@Pllayer064 why bring gender into this?
@Pllayer064 3 жыл бұрын
@@bvedant Eunuch Dance Music?
@Flightcoach 9 ай бұрын
Awesome video. Well done!🎉
@donkeyfacekilla1 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video!
@Allu16 3 жыл бұрын
Ah that Marco Carola Timewarp era.
@jamesboughton7841 3 жыл бұрын
Been waiting for a vid that tells it how it is
@drewie123 3 жыл бұрын
Great docu well done RA
@djnickbennett 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent doc. Learned a lot. Thanks!
@michaeljaye8776 3 жыл бұрын
The biggest problem is the parties & dj's who only play one style or sound. This oversaturates and kills genres.
@nacorcarmonablanco4414 3 жыл бұрын
As a Tech House lover, I have to say that raggaeton-influenced Tech House is the biggest crap in the world. Basically, everything you listened in any El Row party in Spain before the Corona.
@Felix-bw8hf 3 жыл бұрын
Row is a shit hole
@serratos97 3 жыл бұрын
Agree. That's why I always try to listen to underground DJs like Avalon Emerson :)
@moritzwymann13 3 жыл бұрын
Great that someone made a vid about this !!!
@SeattleSpursFan1882 9 ай бұрын
Personally, I believe Colin Dale and his Abstrakt Dance show should get mad props for spreading the Tech house sound back in the early 90's.
@donkeyfacekilla1 3 жыл бұрын
Man so many people lazily vilify TH, there are so many REAL bangers in the sound! You just have to dig!
@PAWSA 3 жыл бұрын
📠
@cheda1992 3 жыл бұрын
I think it’s inevitable when majority of ‘TH DJs’ play the same shit with a different name over and over again. DJs push the music and educate the crowd. If I heard a DJ play good tech house it would cause me to reform my opinion on it and look deeper into the genre. If DJs consistenlty play commercial, repetitive shit and call it tech house, then the genre suffers because of it
@alexanderliu9376 3 жыл бұрын
People vilify "EDM" too, they think it is a boogeyman coming to usurp the underground scene when I think the mainstream and underground have been able to coexist quite well for decades now. Let sleeping dogs lie.
@alinpiticu91 3 жыл бұрын
9:00 - Petre Inspirescu @ Sunwaves 23 @Playing Two Right Wrongans - System Error
@raab2616 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you kind sir
@DaviMartins99 3 жыл бұрын
Great track! Thanks mate
@ivaylospasov8162 3 жыл бұрын
truuuu thank uuu
@SimonPHILIPPE 3 жыл бұрын
thank youuuuuuuuuu
@lewisrosher1601 3 жыл бұрын
Such a banger
@NachoLopezba 3 жыл бұрын
thank you for saving the scene!
@MusicBTB777 3 жыл бұрын
Not heard Gobstopper in a while🔥👌! Music will always evolve, mutate and grow into other forms because new players are always arriving on the scene and they have their ideas to place down in a track, welcome to the history and evolution of music! 🎧
@YounRangr 3 жыл бұрын
Dubstep went the same route once the mainstream took it
@totaldeparture7848 3 жыл бұрын
And yet it's pretty underground again, the deep dub stuff anyhow. I think people are slowly learning how to better differentiate the OG styles of dance music from their distant mutant EDM cousins. I think basically what happened was back during the EDM boom in the early 2010's they didn't have new labels coined for it yet so Beatport just stuck it in with already established genres like Progressive house and Dubstep and it confused all the kids who were just starting to get into dance music. Now if you go on Beatport Big room/EDM is it's own thing and the Prog and Dubstep categories are back to being more accurate. Now they just gotta come up with a term for Ibiza style "tech house" and get it in it's own category.
@sameerdodger 3 жыл бұрын
@@totaldeparture7848 as much as completely agree with you, I don’t think it’s too healthy to get bogged down in defining genres. I feel like genres are go-to ways of describing and categorising music, there are many more ways to refer to tunes.
@totaldeparture7848 3 жыл бұрын
@@sameerdodger Oh I completely agree, at the end of the day it's all just music and there's good and bad tunes in every style so there's no use getting hung up on purism, I think I would just generally prefer to have it more organized specifically when I'm shopping for it so I can dig what I need more efficiently. It would be nice to have Tech House divided up into "big room" and then whatever you'd call the alternative on Beatport kinda like they did with techno. It just helps narrow down your search is all.
@YesSirPhil 3 жыл бұрын
Taylor Swift('s producers) dislikes your comment...
@jimmynewman4382 3 жыл бұрын
Also rooted in Croydon.
@ColinNesbit 3 жыл бұрын
Love Swayzak, wish they were still going.
@lukereti4499 3 жыл бұрын
Swayzak spoke openly about this stuff and how he couldn't survive on making music anymore
@hasgoodles7807 3 жыл бұрын
Love, love Swayzak. Just brilliant music.
@lukereti4499 2 жыл бұрын
@@denlehmann I think it was on his instagram a while back now
@arseniipivtorak3815 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for giving used songs names!
@FukumanDJ 3 жыл бұрын
Nice approach into the genre!
@Biggieduets37 3 жыл бұрын
Labels, dislike, culture etc, are such matters of the mind and society. What music is touching my heart, my soul, this is all that matters to me.
@shumeister1059 3 жыл бұрын
Goose pimple music?
@LeonVuksic 3 жыл бұрын
Tech House is not dead, it was never “mainstream”. Deep house is mega mainstream right now! Also, ask kids that are in their 20’s do they like tech house? They dont know what it is, they either know Techno or House, also, 90% of youngsters call EDM that its Techno.. they dont know Jeff Mills or Dave Clarke... so just chill.. tech house is not dead, or dissrispected and its gonna continue being underground because it will always miss “mainstream track elements” 😎
@NorthwestLights206 3 жыл бұрын
preach
@davelewis8270 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah it's weird being on the underground and hearing that the thing you're going out and dancing to on the reg is "dead" or "making a comeback".
@fungus_am0nguz644 3 жыл бұрын
But Mills and Clarke are Techno driven monsters not really associated with tech house that much. Also I remember being at those exact parties in DC 10 at Ibiza with Loco Dice and Villalobos and tech house became the "default" sound, its not hard to see why, i mean its fun dance music, not exactly my cup of tea for dance music but it WAS and DID became THE mainstream sound back then.
@georgiesmith7114 2 жыл бұрын
I'm from London and pretty much anyone here knows exactly what tech house is 🤠
@BlueCheese747 2 жыл бұрын
People don't always know tech house by name, but trust me everywhere I go the big club music is tech house and the formula is always recognised by the crowd
@ammaarvayani9765 3 жыл бұрын
big up gideon every time! my fav producer
@MadelnMachines 10 ай бұрын
DJ Mayson - Wanna Get - Reminds me of that early 2000s progressive house - plodding, minimal, groovy kind of sound. Love it.
@micheleberto1846 3 жыл бұрын
surprised to not see Marco Carola in this video. How many DJs changed their style to tech-house in order to survive in Ibiza? See at Jamie Jones...long days have been since his hot creation original sound
@caseyfalconer7347 3 жыл бұрын
Love the hot creation releases from 2011-2012 times
@mhurst4317 3 жыл бұрын
he'd probably demand a ridiculous fee let's be honest
@micheleberto1846 3 жыл бұрын
@@mhurst4317 hahah that's right.
@jeff-oh 3 жыл бұрын
Shouts to Mr. C, Layo & Bushwacka, Terry Francis, Slam, Swayzak, Eddie Richards, Dave Mothersole.
@sabrinarodrigues629 3 жыл бұрын
Layo&Bushwaka actually introduced me to electronic music in the early 2000. Never went back
@mostlyindica 9 ай бұрын
So lovely to hear Liz Edwards voice again, thank you.
@LLemm-gh8bb 3 жыл бұрын
We need a 2 hour documentary!!! Please!
@ravracer16 3 жыл бұрын
End of day dance music should make you want to dance. Doesn’t matter if it’s tech house , techno or disco. Some of the better DJs can go from one genre to the other in their sets effortlessly. A Carl Cox set at a festival is completely different from a Carl Cox set at 3am in Ibiza. It’s gets dark and dirty and less groovy.
@calebainsworth7247 3 жыл бұрын
A Carl Cox set these days is fucking arsebiscuits. Always been overrated. His FACT mixes were pretty good though.
@louisvanmoyes7587 3 жыл бұрын
Carl Cox plays commercial Tech House for his early sets and Business Techno for his later sets. Man is the definition of commercialism, unfortunately. Gotta go back in time to hear his quality stuff.
@basictonal79 3 жыл бұрын
Went to the Subterrain 24th Anniversary Reunion way back in 2019 in London - the music was excellent (so many great tune memories in this video, the asad rizvi dual bushwacka! remix - woh!!) but the main thing about it was (as stated in the video) the lack of attitude, pretentiousness, no posing bollox and super friendly crowd. THIS is what I craved and that night delivered it in tech-spades. That atmosphere combined with the old skool tech-house sound was a mega winner. more of that please :D
@laurenashleydi 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this video.
@joelbrandao4 3 жыл бұрын
Nice video!
@latenightdate 3 жыл бұрын
What is the track from 1:58?
@patrickclark2588 3 жыл бұрын
great video RA as always...will there be a minimal techno vid next? sometimes its hard to differntiate
@tech1238 3 жыл бұрын
Good video guys thank you
@chrisrhythm 3 жыл бұрын
keep the vibe boys! congrats from VIENNA!
@warrickcole4550 3 жыл бұрын
Swag records🖤!! where it all started for me!! - Rest In Paradise Liz
@IsaacSMILE 3 жыл бұрын
RIP Liz. Legend.
@GeliSkandalis1337 9 ай бұрын
Thank you for this wonderful piece of content. It brought only the best memories of people dancing, talking, having fun. Whatever may have happened to tech house, the great memories it created for me will always be etched in my soul. Commercialization may have ruined a fraction of tech house, but not its legacy, and since commercialization tends to create trends that are quite short-lived, it may feel for a moment in history as if tech house has died. But I'm pretty sure some fun-loving nerds, as usual, will come along and revive what made it great in the first place. Until then, and this may come as a surprise to some, but things tend to change and then we adapt. As humans, we tend to "periodically" take things too far, only to hopefully realize our mistakes and make the Ninja Turtles the Ninja Turtles again after TMNT 2016. Everything, including the evolution of music, is just a process, and it's not exactly news that there's never a perfect one. Thank you, again. Peace.
@Stellarproductions123 3 жыл бұрын
Came to this video expecting a super biased take on Tech House in order to promote a few record labels, and oh boy I was wrong. Really good content RA, you surprised me pleasantly.
@PUDDICOMBE1992 3 жыл бұрын
Decent vid RA
@johngorgis 3 жыл бұрын
Mr G is my favorite tech house producer
@maxiqums1549 3 жыл бұрын
his 2001 track “G’Strings” in on par for the most groovy tech tracks with Rachmad’s “Adverse Match - No Hype” for me
@PAWSA 3 жыл бұрын
👑
@pabloescobar_8896 3 жыл бұрын
The real King of tech house
@dryad9821 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah man I have a bunch of his records. Still hot
@PAWSA 3 жыл бұрын
👑
@Eric-ib7tw 3 жыл бұрын
i ve never played out much ,but these Wiggle records sure fired the bigger dancefloors like no other tunes, some of them never gets old...endless gratitude for these producers...
@edleroy7593 3 жыл бұрын
Bunch of PURE Djs and artist there !
@ERMAC4482 3 жыл бұрын
I always referred to Tech House as Gez Varley, Steve Bug, and the first track off of Danny Tenaglia Global Underground House. It's like Techno with melodic deepness and groovy, but without the harshness of Techno
@speakatron5634 9 ай бұрын
Would that be Danny Tenaglia Global Underground 010? Or Global Underground 017? Just curious 🙏
@Classic_Vinyl_Only 3 жыл бұрын
It’s the ‘Big’ DJ’s who rake in all the money who end up killing genres
@cristiancummings9852 3 жыл бұрын
james hype, micheal bibi....
@haydenfraser3035 3 жыл бұрын
Literally Fisher
@cristiancummings9852 3 жыл бұрын
@@haydenfraser3035 yep that’s another
@glassboxes 3 жыл бұрын
@@haydenfraser3035 fisher is edm for high school senior
@mae4712 3 жыл бұрын
Oh ye I can read SKRILLEX thru the lines
@TheMacAndDon 3 жыл бұрын
Actually didn’t know this...and Im a fan of tech house. Guess i should dig deeper in the artists/music history. There should be more vids like this 👍🏼
@SEFFOfficial 3 жыл бұрын
Great stuff, tells it as it is!!
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