RA What Happened To Tech House?

The story behind the most misunderstood genre in dance music.

For well over a decade, tech house was commonly assumed to be a byword for uninspired, cookie-cutter dance music. Combining techno’s outer-space sensibility with the swung grooves of house, tech house became largely associated with big-room commercial clubs, and the term was often casually used as a pejorative to describe any mid-tempo dance music thought to be in bad taste. But in recent years, that’s started to change.

A new generation of DJs have been rediscovering the ’90s productions that initially defined the tech house sound, tracks that are a million miles away from what the style transformed into as the 2000s progressed. Many modern listeners wouldn’t think to associate these timeless tracks with what tech house became, which begs the question: what happened? What was tech house in the first place? Where did it come from? Why did it change? And why is it back? In this video essay, the DJs and producers who built the culture, watched it decay and reemerge, set the record straight.
https://ra.co/features/3851

GENRE Tech House, Dance / Electro Pop, Techno (Peak Time / Driving), Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic), Drum & Bass, Deep House
12 TRACKS:

1. O.H.M. – Oceanic (Original Mix) 07:23 130bpm F maj [Defective Records]
2. Housey Doingz – Gobstopper (Original Mix) 07:40 131bpm B maj [Wiggle]
3. E-Dancer – World Of Deep (Original Mix) 05:34 135bpm E♭ maj [KMS Records]
4. Pure Science – B1 Say It 07:05 [Pure Science Communications]
5. A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray (Original Mix) 04:27 120bpm A maj [A Guy Called Gerald]
6. LFO – LFO (Original Mix) 05:19 125bpm G min [Warp Records]
7. Baby D – Let Me Be Your Fantasy (Original Mix) 07:50 135bpm G maj [Little Dragon Recordings]
8. Leviticus – Burial (Original Mix) 04:53 81bpm D♯min [UMOD (Universal Music On Demand)]
9. Goldie – Inner City Life (Original Mix) 07:00 155bpm D maj [London Music Stream/Because Music]
10. M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade – Body Language (Original Mix) 07:16 65bpm G♭ min [Get Physical Music]
11. Two Right Wrongans – System Error (Original Mix) 06:57 [Neotropiq]
12. Asad Rivzi – Dual (Bushwacka! Remix) 08:46 130bpm C maj [Above Board Projects]