Well, tech-house is pretty prolific nowadays, seems everyone and their mother spins the stuff or at least has it creep into their sets... but this isn't really about today's tech-house. The first time I saw the term "tech-house" was in the late 90's, when I used to browse Satellite Records online shop for new tunes (in really shitty, low-bitrate RealAudio files). There were a number of tunes in this genre, only name I can recall at the moment is Mark Ambrose, the stuff had its own distinct sound, different from the house/techno of the time and even different from the stuff we associate today with the term "tech-house".

I'm starting to ramble, I think, but does anybody have any idea what I'm talking about... or have any good recommendations for tracks/sets? I don't recall anybody really being into this type of music very much back then, seems all eyes were on disco-house, trance, prog, and garage.

Hell, while I'm talking about tech-house, would the more drummier, less repetitive, less melodic stuff that prog house DJs used to spin in 2000-2001 (Peace Division, Ben Pound, parts of "Communicate" and the beginning of "Transport 4") be grouped with tech-house or was that just another subset of prog?