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Originally posted by Rodri Santos i am going to do some shameless self promotion: 1st of all in the year i've been playing with it i've known that tech house is as descriptive as calling all the edm "techno or house" like most people say. Generally tech house is a bit slower than the common house (125-126bpm) and more minimalistic, emphasis in deep bass, percussion, dry snares... but again you can love the style of a particular tech house set and hate another tech house set because it's completely different.

and it's safe to say you have no idea what you are talking about.

tech house means techno house. given that there any number of styles of techno and any number of styles of house and any number of tempos that either can be (125-126, are you kidding me?) this makes it quite impossible to define the way you have.

there are at least as many shades of tech house as there are techno and house alike.

i posted some of the prototypical tech house that came out of chicago and detroit because it's what I like and the stuff often gets overlooked in today's beatport era. there is more progressive and tribal house influenced stuff later in the 90s like david alvarado, from when that was the dominant sound of clubs, and of course then there was a period of minimal glitchy tech house starting in the late 90s with tracks like 'beau mot plage' by isolee that were quickly termed 'microhouse', which exploded and were widely popularized by richie hawtin, magda, and everyone and their grandmother. then we got all this latin influenced ethnic 'tech house'. then deep house became the primary substrate and it got its share of assraping, and now it's this bullshit 'slow disco' edit nonsense that has all the ex microhouse k-heads jizzing in their pants while they layer their richie hawtin sample packs on top of marvin gaye loops, trying fit circular classics through their square holes. and all the while there exist these 'trendy' types of tech house, there are other people trying to cash in on their success. trance producers becoming prog house producers who incorporate microhouse elements into their tracks in a desperate grasp for relevance, etc. and i barely mentioned any of the variations. you've got belgian new beat influenced tech house, dubstepno tech house, basic channel dub tech house, acid tech house, etc etc etc

the point is there are always new types of 'tech house' and your description is just BS.

and OP, this is why you are having a hard time pinning it down. if i were youd id give it the broadest definition: house with elements of techno. I posted what I posted because those tracks are from a time when house and techno were first really clearly differentiated, and it made sense to then conceive of a hybrid of the forms.

Last edited by nefardec on Apr-19-2011 at 23:11

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Le Freak - Smell My Finger by Le Freak

Mr Scruff - So Long [Ninja Tune]
Dinky - Nocturne [Wagon Repair] + Tic Toc tool
Philogresz - Vie (Voiceless Edit) [Ware]
Peter Funk & Kevin Yost - INYU [I Records]
Feygin - Budva (Slang dOP Remix) [Diynamic]
Io - Cabaret [Diynamic]
Langenberg - Times (Manuel Tur's Ground Glass Reflex) [Mild Pitch]
David Garcet & K Hocini - She Was Black (Sabb Remix) [Beef Records]
Yakine - Stickney (Julien Chaptel Remix [Adults Only]
Sandy Huner - Rare Tap (2000 and One Cut) [Remote Area]
Federico Molinari - Dos [Love Letters From Oslo]
Mr Scruff - Get A Move On [Ninja Tune]
Masomenos - One Inch In A Day [Welcome To Masomenos]
Marco Resmann - I Will Love [Upon You]
Sabb - 22 Years [CDR]
Guido Schneider Meets Jens Bond - Getting Sleepy [Highgrade]
Roberto Bosco - Login Exact [Mowar]
Vincent Casanova - See You In Hyperspace [Archipel]

Le Freak - Bienvenue Au Freak Show- by Le Freak

Ekkohaus - Soulshine (Welcome To Kazakhstan Edit) [Circus Company]
Jairo Catelo - African Dub [My Cup Of Tea]
Tom Clark & Daniel Dreier- House Camp [Highgrade]
Jairo Catelo - Yairo's Concept [My Cup Of Tea]
Daniela Stickroth - Hare & Tortoise (Marc Poppke Remix) [Meerestief]
Sven Tasnadi - Genau [Cargo Edition]
Sven Tasnadi -Aramis [Cargo Edition]
Livio & Roby - Diverse [Cecille]
Zander VT - Get Down [Bpitch Control]
Brothers Vibe - El Baille (Accapella) [Brothers Vibe Productions]
Damian Schwartz & Guli - Salson [Raummusik]
Larsson - Ruanda (Markus Fix Remix) [Rotary Cocktail)
Bini & Martini - Twisted Room (Microdinamic Remix) [Ocean Dark]
Ilario Alicante & Delete - Going Straight To Caracas [Discos De Lata]
Maxim Dangles - John Conrad [Erratom Records]
Anton Pieete - Love Machine [Intacto Records]
Cabo San Roque - Calypso 08 (Luciano Remix) [Bruchstuecke]

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Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay please post more i would like to learn about this genre.

Wrong place.
90% of people that posted have no idea of what tech house is.

The ignorance in this forum regarding genres out of trance is simply embarassing.

you would figure that i was being sarcastic for the reason that i posted 5 tech house sets.

So what you're saying is, if it has some kind of chanting spanish language vocal, woodblock percussion, and harsh white noise effect, then it's tech-house? Cool, going to beatport now.

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Originally posted by nefardec

in all seriousness your timeline was exactly the way the trends have gone, which I can confirm just from taking a peek back at all the sets I've recorded over the last 2-3 years

it was 'minimal', then latin bongo drums, then deep house, and now honestly most of the new music i acquire is disco edits from soundcloud... I like to think of myself as a good enough dj where i can throw it all together (because after all there will be good tracks in any genre) but sometimes I feel like dance music is so disposable that my tastes are changing with the wind

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Originally posted by TranceArmstrong So what you're saying is, if it has some kind of chanting spanish language vocal, woodblock percussion, and harsh white noise effect, then it's tech-house? Cool, going to beatport now.

if you take away the spanish vocal, its called dubstep.

i agree with rodri's description and i knew the purists experts like nefardec would blast him for mentioning a tempo range. its easy to hate on tempo as part of classification but damn it helps a lot as a working dj.

i sympathize with trancearmstrong. i went down the same road with trends in that order. right now im experiencing the best success ive ever had, and its because ive broken that mold/cycle and care less about aesthetic (because thats all some tracks are, they just put out a certain aesthetic) and focus on functional aspects of the tracks. like is it a track with vocals, is it a filler type track, is it a peak hour type, regardless if it has a disco, electro, tech or deep house aesthetic.

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Originally posted by nefardec and OP, this is why you are having a hard time pinning it down. if i were youd id give it the broadest definition: house with elements of techno. I posted what I posted because those tracks are from a time when house and techno were first really clearly differentiated, and it made sense to then conceive of a hybrid of the forms.

brethren, you're a man of good will. you have this tech house saga pinned down to submission. mediocrity isn't excellence, so I feel where you're coming from.

is this tech house?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_XJn3ZsU-M

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Wrong place. 90% of people that posted have no idea of what tech house is. The ignorance in this forum regarding genres out of trance is simply embarassing.

shocking post but I'm a novice to tech house so I can't disagree.

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Originally posted by stevö i agree with rodri's description and i knew the purists experts like nefardec would blast him for mentioning a tempo range. its easy to hate on tempo as part of classification but damn it helps a lot as a working dj.

purists?

you guys are out of your minds. it's not hating on using tempo to classify, it's just simply untrue that a 125-126 tempo range represents all tech house music.

and if you need to restrict yourself to that range as a dj, you should be out of work.



here's a 119 bpm recent tech house track:



and here's a recent 120 bpm tech house track:


and 121 bpm:


123 bpm:


127 bpm:
http://www.djdownload.com/mp3-detai...Germany/2495046

128 bpm:


128bpm:


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129bpm


129bpm


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132bpm


134bpm


capische?

tempo has nothing to do with the definition of tech house. it's not purism, it's a simple fact. tech house can be any tempo that any 'house' in general can be. generally around 117-135 but mostly in the 120s.

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Originally posted by nefardec purists? you guys are out of your minds. it's not hating on using tempo to classify, it's just simply untrue that a 125-126 tempo range represents all tech house music. and if you need to restrict yourself to that range as a dj, you should be out of work.

yea but the guy said GENERALLY. G E N E R A L L Y.