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Originally posted by LionsLair To simplify Tech House you could describe it as House music that uses techy or computer age sounds 1985+. House is more organic, using instruments we've had for the past few centuries: pianos, trumpets, ethnic percussions, organs, saxaphones, strings, etc. Tech House is replacing those instruments with the sharper and darker techy sounds from the new age of instruments like synths and computer generated SAW SIN SQUARE Triangle sounds. Deep House in many ways is almost the opposite of Tech House. It has warmer tones, the sounds can get sublime and underwater or backroom feeling versus sharper frequencies of Tech House. The prominent Deep House sounds are usually in the in the 300hz-1.5Khz range in frequency which feel muted/moody/warm compared to the prominent Tech HOuse sound frequencies in the 1k-18k range. Having said that there are many tracks that share ideas between the genres. OT:...a great way to maxamize enjoyment of Joris Voorn's 'A Deep Place' album is to listen to Burial's 'Untrue' album first. Both great albums that you will appreciate more if you hear them together within a short timeframe.

This is wrong. Ok to clear it up once and for all ,the word "Tech-House" sounds like it describes a cold, mechanistic version of house, but as i said in a previous post, it has little to do with it. "Tech-House" was coined by Mr. C in the mid-90s to describe a stripped-down, more upbeat version of deep-house, or house with jazzy detroit techno elements and at times tribal drumming. Tech-House is in most of the times warm, it uses all the jazzy chords and stuff, lots of dub and low-end and indeed ethnic percussions, strings, saxophones etc. In the end of the day, as i said, tech-house originally was nothing more then a harder, clubbier version of deep house.Famous Tech-House musicians and djs were Mr.C,Terry Francis,Jay Tripwire, Joshua Collins, Jesper Dahlback, John Tejada, Gideon, Terry Lee Brown Jr., Jeff Bennett, Harris, Circulation, Subtech,The Timewriter, David Duriez, Layo and Buschwacka!, Asad Rizvi,Eddie Richards etc. (although some of them had also produced deep house, techno and some have jumped to the electro-house bondwagon).

The thing you descrive sounds more like the cold, electro-house revival that came in 2002 with the electro-clash revolution (with Mylo, Felix Da Housecat, Rex The Dog, Booka Shade and stuff) and uses all the analogue, atari,retro, raw sounds. It has little to do with tech-house ot whatsoever-at least back then-today there is some diffusion betwen all sub-genres though. Ass i said before though, mislabels could have changed the original meaning of the (sub-)genres and hence, tech-house today could mean a different thing then the original tech-house sound. Ironically, Mr. C (who coined the term) hated the retro "electro-house" revival, saying that it had nothing to do with the sound he was playing and rejected it as souless and mindless garbage. I have to agre with him up to a certain point.

Last edited by PETRAN on Apr-02-2008 at 14:32