^^ percussive, "tribal" flourishes, musicality, and sometimes melody as opposed to more minimal (expected) electronic sounds.
I got into house & techno specifically largely from early 90's progressive house. As mentioned, it really was all about the dub.. imo.
of course that trance thing came a bit later. I was hearing local, NA early 90's deep house via Strictly Rhythm and such, but maybe the synthetic elements of progressive house made things sound more alien.. or fantasy like? Deep house, back to basics stuff is pretty earthy. Where as via progressive house moving into early (original) trance, you heard of stuff like Harthouse, Eye Q Records, and Eat Static, ya know? Eat Static had graphics of UFO's as the album art.. crazy! It wasn't about.. Chicago street scenes for graphics. I never thought of it like that. hmm..
Presentation.. escapism.
I got into house & techno specifically largely from early 90's progressive house. As mentioned, it really was all about the dub.. imo.
of course that trance thing came a bit later. I was hearing local, NA early 90's deep house via Strictly Rhythm and such, but maybe the synthetic elements of progressive house made things sound more alien.. or fantasy like? Deep house, back to basics stuff is pretty earthy. Where as via progressive house moving into early (original) trance, you heard of stuff like Harthouse, Eye Q Records, and Eat Static, ya know? Eat Static had graphics of UFO's as the album art.. crazy! It wasn't about.. Chicago street scenes for graphics. I never thought of it like that. hmm.. Presentation.. escapism.