good man!here's one of my fav track,at the moment,https://youtu.be/oIvC6FM_p_U..if it peaks your interest,i would love to exchange a current playlist with you.
The abyss...
Rödhåd
Subb-An
Eric Volta
Henry Saiz
Levon Vincent
Rodriguez JR.
&me
Adam Port
Recondite
Tale of Us
Ame
Dixon
Matthew Dekay
The Drifter
Mano Le Tough
Deetron of course
Ghost Culture
Stimming
Maxxi Soundsystem
Huxley
Citizen
Aera
Redshape
Reaganz
GoldFFinch
Culoe De Song
Mind Against
Locked Groove
Agoria
John Tejada
Flowers and Sea Creatures
Traumprinz
Omar-S
Kyle Hall
Barnt
Jakob Korn
Cuthead
Few Nolder
Ten Walls (Mario Basanova)
Fur Coat
Hunter/Game
Chaim
Clarion
Floating Points
Dark Sky
Adriatique
Ripperton
Affkt
Los Suruba
Marc Marzenit
Him Self Her
Rampa
Dauwd
Robag Wrumh
DJ Koze
Portable
DJ Tennis
Vaal
The/Das
Blond:ish
Detroit Swindle
Mr. Raoul K
Chateau Flight
Roman Flugel
Kalabrese
Lake People
Vincenzo
Pan-Pot
Heiko Laux
Rio Padice
Kirill Kirik
KiNK
Danny Daze
Kolsch
Gardens of God
PillowTalk
Oni Ayhun (Olaf Dreijer of The Knife)
Fever Ray (Karin Dreijer of The Knife)
Chymera
Martin Buttrich
Holtoug
David August
Andhim
Christian Prommer
Genius of Time
Axel Boman
Jay Shepheard
Leon Vynehall
Lazlo Dancehall
The Cheapers
Dorisburg
Djuma Soundsystem (major Renaissance)
Hot Since 82
Damian Lazarus
DJ Dodger Stadium
Wankelmut
Oskar Offermann
Clockwork
And.Id
Four Tet
Jon Charnis
Jay Haze
Kuniyuki
Baikal
Van Hai
Alex Niggemann
William Kouam Djoko
Danton Eeprom
Space Dimension Controller
Chez Damier
Anthony Naples
Nicolas Jaar
John Daly
Elekfantz
Pantha Du Prince
Pional
My Favorite Robot
Frankey & Sandrino
Cosmin TRG
Motor City Drum Ensemble
D'Julz
Pachanga Boys
Kassem Mosse
Graze
Jimmy Edgar
Sandwell District
Darko Esser
Nebraska
Osunlade
Basic Soul Unit
Echonomist
Riccio
DJ Sprinkles
Iron Curtis
I can go on and on
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Haha RDRCK that's a pretty solid list of good house and techno in general, definitely goes beyond simply "tech house" which to me is quite a narrow and generic sound. Good stuff though, hopefully it'll encourage some of the tech housers to look a bit more widely
Well, you see the problem with the Tool Room/1605/meh, boring, generic, template based "Tech House", is that it isn't really Tech House, hehe.
I actually classify almost all of the above artists as "Tech House" because they are all quite good at what they do, and they all make tracks that fall on that hazy, tenuous border that lies between House and Techno. I mean, take the term literally and I believe you will find that there is no other acceptable definition.
It's also a list that reflects my personal taste quite a bit, because most of them are pretty heady, quite melodic/trancey/"make-you-weep-shirtless-on-the-dancefloor-with-your-head-tilted-heavenward", music that, specifically, lays your heart chakra wide open, if you're open to that idea. But they don't skimp on the basslines, because that's the root of a good track, and all are quite trippy. This is music for people on drugs, or for people who can get to that (higher) state (of consciousness) without drugs.
Bonus, this is my "All Killer, No Filler" list, meaning that they all consistently release EPs where every track is standout, no remedial, "just gonna leave this shitty 2 bar loop that I swept with a low pass filter and spiced up with a few played out drum fills (koff koff Radio Slave I keed, I keed) here on the B". You really feel like you're getting your money's worth from them. There were a ton of artists that I left off the list because they have dropped very lopsided releases.
Oh, I want to plug Innervisions latest release, the 7th installment of the Secret Weapons series. The Secret Weapons series comes out yearly, and it is basically a collection of the four or five tracks that Ame and Dixon have gotten consistently positive/manic crowd reaction with over the course of touring the preceding year. The heavy rollers, for lack of a better term. I've found it to be consistently amazing, packed every year with tracks that not only "work", but tracks that I actually grow to love and enjoy listening to again, and again and again. It has also brought to my attention a ton of artists that I may have overlooked, just because of the sheer volume of new music to comb through, and older artists that I may have outgrown/forgotten about who are suddenly put back into my "holy shit, this is amazing" category
Can't sing it's praises enough, definitely worth all ya'alls time to at least give a cursory listen
Go ahead and call me out if you find my theory of Tech House is full of holes/shit, I'd like to start a dialog
Last edited by RDRCK; 04-02-2015 at 04:46 PM.
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Not at all, I consistently buy music by several of the artists on that list, in fact you've listed a few all time favourites of mine and I'll generally at least check out sets, releases, etc from the majority of the list, although stuff like Hot Since '82, Tale of Us, some Innervisions etc is a bit too deep-V-neck for me personally
A lot of the music I'm into and certainly most of what I play out could legitimately be described as tech-house as it's, well, somewhere between techno and house. I guess I'm just turned off by the fact that the term has come to refer to quite a specific sound - that Toolroom/Fanciulli/Saved type sound and/or the more bigroom techno Drumcode, (more recent) UMEK, stuff. Which I think we're both in agreement in our opinions of but it would make me reluctant to label many of the things we're into as "tech-house" when the majority of music-heads that I know, certainly IRL at least, definitely associate it with that particular formulaic style.
I guess it's a little bit like the term EDM (not that I ever really used it) or "minimal techno" or even the way I'm often seeing "deep house" used recently - in the last few years it's evolved from a general term describing an aesthetic or approximate genre, to something that refers to a very specific sound.
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here I am, a newbie to tech house,with that toolroom/1605/drumcode sound,of which,has helped me developed all of my certain preferences, and personal DJing sound,over this last past year...On the strength of your recommendation,I just previewed (on Beatport) that 7th installment of the Secret Weapons series,(outside of the Simon Haydo track),I ready didn't cared for any of it,...I'm reminded me of that old saying,"To Each,his Own".....I will,and do,"Thank You" for that extensive list,and will endeavor to seek out,on that list. the sound(Artist), that caters to my taste.
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