your favourite tech-step tunes

Jonny L - PBX

ed rush and nico - lo

It's only Nico (with some additional bits of Fierce). The darkest techstep ever ;)
Anyway:

Neotech - Terminal
Ed Rush & Nico - Neutron/Torque/Comatone/Mothership
Doc Scott - Shadowboxing
Fierce & Nico - Input
Boymerang - Still (and the VIP from Dom & Optical)
Trace & Nico - Mid Town Methods (Level II)
T Power & MK Ultra - Mutant Jazz (Trace Rollers Instinct remix) the first ever!
Tonic - Implants
Cybernet & Genetix - Cyborg2/Program 3
Genoforce - The Germs
Twisted Anger - 9027/Exquisite/5 o'clock
Dom & Matrix - Vandal
Suspicious Circumstance - Completely Real

Ed Rush - The Raven

I posted it Monday Airmail

Also love proton and the trace tune that goes 'danger coming from the 23rd chamber' - anyone know what thats called ?

Cheers

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Ed Rush - The Raven

I posted it Monday Airmail

Also love proton and the trace tune that goes 'danger coming from the 23rd chamber' - anyone know what thats called ?

Cheers

that's on Emotif.. Midtown Method by Rollers Instinct I think.

Just realized I love tech-step more than any other sub-genre of dnb. Any good '97 tech-step mixes about, then? I know a little, but not enough!

Hades aka Script Presents :
31 Records VS Prototype (96-99)


Deep Beats : Nasty Habits
Mute ‘98 : Matrix
March : Nasty Habits
Moving 808’s : Optical
Urban Space : Boymerang
Bounce : Optical
Sphere : Trace
The End Part 1 : Optical
Schitzoid : Calyx
Sonar : Trace
Mechanics : Dom & Roland
Cutlso (Lokuste Mix) : Ed Rush, Optical & Fierce
Still : Boymerang



http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7ivwmmz3wzm


Early Tech Step Mix (M/S & Tech Itch) HADES aka SCRIPT


Rage Roll : Dom & Optical
PMG5 : Decoder
The Virus : Technical Itch
Storm : Dom & Roland
Jazz Station : Decoder
Stronghold : Technical Itch
Chained On 2 Sides : Dom & Roland
Twister : Decoder
Terminal : Technical Itch
Homicide : Dom & Roland
Quake : Decoder
The Vandal : Dom & Roland
Frostbite : Ice Minus
Weekend World : Calyx Remix
In My dreams : Decoder
Quadrant 6 : Dom & Optical
Time Square : Decoder
Concrete Shoes : Dom & Optical




http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bmm4j5jgijo

Hades aka Script Presents :
‘Timez Change 93-98 Mix’
No U Turn / Saigon / Nu Black


Dub White : DJ Ruffkutt
The Illuminati : Deep Rooted
Dangerous : DJ Ruffkutt
Wax Musical (Remix) : Dom & Roland
We Enter : Ryme Tyme
What’s Up : Ed Rush & Nico
Mothership : Ed Rush
Bloodclot Artattack (Lick 1 Remix) : Ed Rush
Mad Different Methods : Ed Rush / Trace & Nico
Technology : Ed Rush
Droid : Ed Rush / Trace & Nico
C701 : Nico & Davis
Area 51 : Trace & Nico
Breaking Limits : Unknown Face
Comatone : Ed Rush
August (Remix) : Ed Rush & Nico
Defect : Ed Rush

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?6ljd1dnjy1m


there you go

lol

peace

Just play What's Up, Mad Different Methods and Mothership over and over and over again until they get the message... Techstep don't come any better than them

not forgetting the mighty silver blade!

not forgetting the mighty silver blade!

Highly over-rated.

Never really thought of it as Techstep either tbh

not forgetting the mighty silver blade!

highly over-rated.

never really thought of it as techstep either tbh

you know my feelings on this one

thanks for the mixes hades, will be listening to them all over the next week or so, cheers!

Silver Blade is the almighty

What makes a tune techstep really though?
Futuristic sounding, not 94 jungley?, between 96/98?
I dont know.

Silver Blade ticks all boxes though, and tickles my fancy I might add.

Does tech-step still exist as a sub-genre? In ye're opinion, I mean.

I'd characterise Spectra-soul's a-side on their new ep on nu directions as being pretty close. Also Instra:mental+Jonny L's output 1-2. Any other good recent examples?

Also I don't think it should be limited to strictly steppy stuff, like one-two beat structure. It's all about sparse, metallic beats and proper atmospheres, generally of the dark & moody variety I reckon photek's early stuff was closely linked to the sound, for me it's a synthesis of the values of both jungle and tech-step. I might be wrong though...

Photek - Third Sequence anyone?
Might just fit

not forgetting the mighty silver blade!

Highly over-rated.

Never really thought of it as Techstep either tbh

i think it was a bit of a transitional tune in that it has none of the rawness of the early no-u-turn and emotif classics but it still has pretty much the same aesthetic - although by this stage the radical grunginess and militancy of techstep was starting to be lost and it had lost it's "shock of novelty" value.

certainly not overrated though, it's definitely an all time classic in my book




as for techstep, you can be a strict taxonomist and insist that techstep is 96-97 sample based jungle with distorted bassines and a grungy dystopian aesthetic that stemmed from the results of a long recession and 18 years of tory rule, the dismantling of the welfare state and the privatisation of social capital

or you can end up with a fairly meaningless word that doesn't really describe much more than jungle + basslines put through a few guitar distortion pedals

Also I don't think it should be limited to strictly steppy stuff,

it never WAS about strictly steppy stuff at the time to be honest... check out the tech steppin lp on emotif and the torque lp

as for whether techstep exists as a genre today i would have to say "no"

although there is stuff being made that resembles it rather well - "fire like this" on secret operations being the most techsteppy tune of recent years imo - and that jonny l vs. instramental tune you already mentioned is very fine too

Some good points Tyranny, it's the vibe we're looking for here.

You are wrong about Silver Blade though, it's definitely not techstep

as for whether techstep exists as a genre today i would have to say "no"

how is techstep a genre?

Silver Blade is one of the greatest tunes ever if not the greatest, overrated?!

Some nice dakstep in here

Hello everyone,

It's been long since I've made any dj mixes so here's finally one to scratch the surface of what I've been up to and feeling this year. I haven't been on the decks too much lately so the mixing is kinda sloppy at some points but at least I had fun drinking beer and recording this one. Hope you enjoy it too!

Hosted by Fanu. Thank you bro!

Link:

http://www.fanumusic.com/mixes/dak_d&b_mix_121207.mp3

Tracklist:

Skynet - Hal (Hidden Agenda remix) [Audio Blueprint]
Majistrate feat. Agent K - Under Attack [Juice]
Resound - Rise Like The Sun [unreleased / Secret Operations]
Dak - Ovi B [unreleased / Counter Intelligence]
Dragon Fist - Follow The Leader [Kartoonz]
Cycom - Petrol [unreleased / Lightless]
Swift - The One [Charge]
dj Surreal - Seascape [Hard Leaders]
Dak - Ovi A [unreleased / Counter Intelligence]
Jonny L - Common Origin [XL]
Teebee - Droids [Audio Couture]
Dak - Ovi C [unreleased / unsigned]
Hokusai - Black Rose [Source Direct]
Doc Scott - Drumz '95 (Nasty Habits remix) [Metalheadz]
Dak - untitled [unreleased / unsigned]
Trace & Nico - Cells [No U-Turn]
Ratana & Preslav - Decompression [unreleased / unsigned]

as for whether techstep exists as a genre today i would have to say "no"

how is techstep a genre?

some good advice here.

Also I don't think it should be limited to strictly steppy stuff,

it never WAS about strictly steppy stuff at the time to be honest... check out the tech steppin lp on emotif and the torque lp

I fully realize that steve, my two 'new' examples above are on a strictly stepping vibe though, and I wanted to open the discussion up to more than just steppers. Sorry if it didn't come across as intended.

When does a tune stop bearing a 'resemblance' to a genre and start being a part of it? If either of those tunes had used a guitar pedal in the making of their basslines, could I THEN start calling it tech-step? I mean, we've already got the recession on the way

Also why would tech-step be a meaningless word exactly? Would it not be a useful word to describe the differences between a tune like shadowboxing and some all-out ragga-core track from 94-95? I'm not to well up on me ragga-jungle

Some good points Tyranny, it's the vibe we're looking for here.

You are wrong about Silver Blade though, it's definitely not techstep

I fully realize that steve, my two 'new' examples above are on a strictly stepping vibe though, and I wanted to open the discussion up to more than just steppers. Sorry if it didn't come across as intended.

When does a tune stop bearing a 'resemblance' to a genre and start being a part of it? If either of those tunes had used a guitar pedal in the making of their basslines, could I THEN start calling it tech-step? I mean, we've already got the recession on the way

Also why would tech-step be a meaningless word exactly? Would it not be a useful word to describe the differences between a tune like shadowboxing and some all-out ragga-core track from 94-95? I'm not to well up on me ragga-jungle

Oh shit, is this DOA?? My bad, sorry to bother you steve