your favourite tech-step tunes

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https://amaruk.bandcamp.com/track/amit-points-in-time
Very nice. Sicknote, "Lost Deep in The Hard Drive" lp, recommended.


https://stereociliarecordings.bandcamp.c...lanet-trap
https://stereociliarecordings.bandcamp.c...ck/spectre
https://stereociliarecordings.bandcamp.c...ch-steppin
https://stereociliarecordings.bandcamp.com/track/samba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At94JR799Ec

Juju - Redder Than Red [9th Wonder label]

An interesting breaks and bleeps tune, sounding like a mixture of Amit & Nucleus & Paradox. This could make it drumfunk, in all, but to me it's closer to Decoder and Technical Itch in the early days than plenty of the tunes out there in the last five years, also helped by its half-time nomenclature.

Technical Itch - Focused [Diagnostics LP, 1999]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46zH64q4rH4

Amazing tune. Probably one of my faves ever from Mark Caro. Also one of my introductions to his music on the internet archives made light of legally.

"Focused" is seven minutes of doom glitch dnb, heavy techno nastiness with mean percussive artillery. It's even nastier sounding than his Current Value nosebleed stuff - real subtlety, like a rattlesnake following your path and dropping you down a trench of vipers.
^^ I've never heard that Juju tune before. Good stuff, and yes I agree on the early Decoder-ish inference. I haven't heard "Focused" in a long time. I still have the "Diagnostics" cd kickin around somewhere. It has been years. But yeah, Current Value.. as in the mon Tim Eliot? uh.. Different dude.

Catching up on more recent Tech Itch jams. "RESIST:ED SIX" compilation is sexy. "RESIST:ED FIVE" ain't too bad either.


https://brakken.techitch.com/album/tx-lp
https://store.techitch.com/album/resist-ed-six
https://store.techitch.com/album/resist-ed-five
https://indidjispike.techitch.com/album/...onvergence
Years back (.. it seems like a long time ago to me), when crossbreed was the new thing, I didn't necessarily listen to much of it, although I do recall the early stuff. My attentions were elsewhere, and maybe more specifically focused, rather than geeking out over a hybrid subgenre. If I search around at any given time, I do like a lot of crossbreed now if I put my attentions to it on the odd occasions. Every now and then, you might hear a slightly more clearer, techstep frame to a tune, as apposed to the overt, industrial hardcore techno kick. Techstep in spirit - subjective I know - or adjacent, obviously I've never been one to dismiss influences that go beyond the root of a sound.

eRRe from Spain. I like some of the tunes.




Recent, january 2021, Switch Technique "V lp" is fire.





Tracklist:

00:00​ Water
00:41​ Aquarius
04:42​ Air
05:40​ Simoom
10:25​ Metal
10:58​ Forged
14:59​ Earth
15:54​ Summit Meeting (with Delimit)
20:17​ Spirit
21:12​ Outage
25:14​ Fire
25:57​ Flaming Future (with Freqax)
29:59​ Origin
31:38​ Gene Machine (ft. Lifesize MC)
37:07​ Time
38:23​ Speck of Time

https://otherciderecords.bandcamp.com/al...nique-v-lp
(23rd August 2016, 18:31)+ToRMeNT+ Wrote: ^^ if you ever get a chance to dig up Fresh & MC Moose "Monsoon / Retrostatic" 12" on Picasso, imo, it showcases Fresh's most abstract tune to date. Something you might hear on Exit today, or similar labels, raw, noisy, electro style sounds in a minimal dnb style, melodic atmos. Its a good find. I was a brief fan of Dj Ron's Picasso label back then, hence my stumbling into Fresh's work, pre-Bad Company et all. .

https://www.discogs.com/MC-Moose-Fresh-M...ter/979483


Xyxthumbs


props to I-Witness DnB youtube channel for posting "Retrostatic".  imo this is the best early Fresh tune. 

Dance y'all!   Dance  Jig


^^ I love the grungey, stark, cold production. The bass womps in the background, melodies, the builds & movement in the high hat details. Half time tempos before half time? Electro, techno industrial funk.. I still love the tune. Pitched down would sound great as well.
Presha "Rats" release is tight. All of it.


https://presha.bandcamp.com/album/rats





Another local, Front Line Assembly related, industrial dnb influenced release via Vancouver, BC's Decree.

Decree, "Moment of Silence" lp, 2004. Featuring Chris Petersen (Front Line Assembly, Delerium) & friends.

Front Line Assembly & all related projects have made so much music from different production eras since the 80's, I like that they've always kept an ear to everything & anything going on at any given time. A literal, generational diary of west coast, Canadian electronics. It was always seemingly, extremely rare that FLA & Skinny Puppy to even play local shows back in the day, yet the amount of music released has been so vast. Elusives. FLA & all relatted projects have never been a stagnant EBM industrial machine, that's for sure.

Decree are great, no matter the release. Recommended.


https://decree.bandcamp.com/album/moment-of-silence




Syprexa (Sweden) has some joints. I don't mind some of the 4/4 jigs as well.








https://soundcloud.com/prspct-recordings...by-syprexa


Syprexa - Cheddar Goblin
Syprexa - Epileptic Boogaloo
Syprexa - Late Stage Syphilis
Syprexa - Putrescent Foreplay
Syprexa - Rotten Generation
Katharsys - Gamma Ray
Syprexa - Cellular Zombies (Switch Technique & DJ Hidden Cover)
Limewax - Jungled Vibes
Shy FX & Breakage - Michael Knight
Alix Perez - Burning Babylon
Forbidden Society - Always Imperfect
Billain - Scatter To Forgive
Syprexa - Opting Out
Bop & Subwave - Lo-Fi Romance
Syprexa - Footsoldier
Syprexa - ID
Tantrum.Today - Behind The Therapy
Syprexa - Speedbreed
Detest - Rake
Syprexa - Intracranial Intercourse
Syprexa - Marshmallow Hell
Akira - Die Vossi Die
Deathmachine - Kick Force
Syprexa - Breath Play
Syprexa - Mind Rot
Torn, "Borderline" lp, January 2022


https://tornmusic.bandcamp.com/album/borderline





Quartz, "Hydra" e.p., January 2022


https://ruptureldn.bandcamp.com/album/quartz-hydra-ep

















SYHDA Music (Spain) have some awesome releases of various dark, bpm's. Recommended.





love the industrial angles of the YHVHSQUAD (Japan) joints.


YHVHSQUAD 電影 LIGHTNING EP, January 2022

https://syhdamusic.bandcamp.com/album/lightning-ep

https://zodiacmusicofficial.bandcamp.com/album/-

https://zodiacmusicofficial.bandcamp.com...lost-twice










Code 906 (Russia)   

Yes  Xyxthumbs


https://codecmvi.bandcamp.com/album/viral-blackened-2

https://codecmvi.bandcamp.com/album/warl...dal-beyond







01. Code 906 — Wandering Soul
02. Code 906 — Insularum
03. Code 906 — Hidden Scars (Fear Of Blackened Mix)
04. Code 906 — Primordial Origin
05. Code 906 — The Manhunt
06. Code 906 — Seal Of Eternal Solitude
07. Code 906 — Lunar Onslaught
08. Code 906 — Denied Fate
09. Code 906 — Darker Self
10. Code 906 — No More Souls
11. Code 906 — Fade To Deadly Force
12. Code 906 — The Mortal (Blackened Mix)
13. Code 906 — The Impaler (Blackblood Mix)
14. Code 906 — Howling Inferno
15. Code 906 — Stomper Demonbane
Outro




Tracklist:

01. Intro.(Fallout 2 - Desert Wind)
02. Blocks & Escher - Madness
03. Cypher - Tunnel Vision
04. Paragon - Entangled
05. Code 906 & Paluca - Daymare
06. Dom & Roland - Dred Sound
07. Paragon & Gremlinz - Frost
08. Code 906 & Paluca - Black Science
09. Cypher & Code 906 - Descension
10. Antagonist & Paragon - Plague
11. Antagonist - Sideways (Paragon VIP)
12. Paragon - Antithesis (Code 906 Remix)
13. B-Key - Envious Eyes
(26th February 2022, 00:59)+ToRMeNT+ Wrote:


quality tune Falcon
Dance This is funky.


I listened to "Exorcise the Demons" for the first time in a long bit today. The production largely sounds current for sure. I was trying to wrap my head around the production techniques of the time, given the cohesion and timeless details, in retrospect, as a listen in 2022, the album definitely holds up, and is all well done. Bravo! IMO, when you take away the context of buying and / or enjoying music for djing purposes, you often never actually get into the minute details as much as you should, specifically via full length albums. I tend to appreciate selections more now in retrospect, rediscovering much of the craft of tune. I forgot the lp was released in 1999, I tend to think of Source Direct as a mid-90s thing per se, even tho I still own most of my initial SD / Hokusai purchases from those years, I forget what the release timelines were building up to the album release. Feels like a blur to me now.  I get a craving to hear the tunes entirely pitched down as I post, just for the trip of it all.

"Concealed Identity" is still a favorite, and "Technical Warfare" got a couple rewinds - that tune is a dark, sinister, sampling masterpiece. Thoroughly enjoyed, 23 years on.


Still music that makes you think.  Good stuff.   Chin

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