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gonzo84d

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Re all the other guys/labels going quiet, I really couldn't tell you! To be honest, reading this thread, talking to a few other DJs who've been complaining about the direction of the sound, reading Reynold's take on this thread and the sound this year: http://energyflashbysimonreynolds.blogspot.jp/2015/10/deep-tepid.html

- it inspired me to go on a proper hunt for new FIRE and actually the thing I discovered that surprised me most is that MOST of the artists and labels putting out heat last year, earlier this year, haven't uploaded anything on soundcloud in 2, 3, 4 months.

When you look at 2015 in total, there's actually been an insane amount of good music coming out. But these last few months there's definitely been a real slowdown.
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yeah i guess feel you. there's been a ton of great music coming out but on reflection it doesn't seem as crazy new as the stuff from a year ago. sad, i was thinking. but then i heard this Vybe + Perch mix, which is probably a top five all time deep tech mix, and it's like, if the scene can produce something that vibey, how can it possibly be dying?


the HNH mix is great too, evil

 
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SKEENNAH

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Yeh bwoy!, this Aaron Vybe set is hard, where has this style of House gone, Radford don't play it no more. These tracks are on fire, energetic and in a field of their own.
 
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datwun

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gonzo84d: Big up G, glad you're feeling the sounds! Agreed and agreed re: subsurface and Stanky Face, though Subsurface do need to get a move on with releasing some of them bangers they're sitting on!

Got the next HNH EP up - the Pures EP from JustJosh. Have to say I'm really, really happy with this one - two chunky cuts of 'pure' deep tech from JustJosh and then a super strange, trap x 80s electro at 125 number from Ghostee's new alias Purple Future.
Would love to know you guys' thoughts!

https://soundcloud.com/housenothouseuk/sets/hnh-010-justjosh-pures-ep

"HNH 010 is here and we are really excited about this one! Featuring 2 tracks from Yorkshire based JustJosh and a cracking remix from the-artist-formerly-known-as-Ghostee under his new Purple Future brand - it’s the Pures EP.

JustJosh first made his name in the bassline scene under the name Chronicle - but though there’s a subtle Niche influence to some of his bass tones, overall the sound is far starker and colder.

Title track Pures comes like an iceberg: ice-cold and chunky. With its cavernous bassline and its haunting, stalactite synths, with its whip-crack high hats and its teched-out 2nd drop switch up - the vocal sample may be about Colombia’s most famous export, but it serves equally well to describe the track itself: “This is grade-A, 100% pure” - uh, deep tech - “ladies and gentlemen, Disco Sh*t”.

If the original mix is pure deep tech, then Purple Future’s remix is hybrid hip-house. Where to put this track? The booming 808 kicks, the spangling-crisp hat fills and snare rolls come like trap. The 80s Blade Runner synth line comes like old school electro. At points it kicks into a tumping 4x4 house beat and at others it cuts back to just a heartbeat bass kick and atmospheric synth sounds creating a poignant nostalgia for a future which never came.

On final track Vortex JustJosh takes us on a high-octane journey through the stars. The vibes here are dark and technoid. Space-sounds scatter across the bottom-end, alternating between a gnarled Reese hover synth and a chest-rattling FM subbass, while Eery house strings and an upbeat beep melody bring a touch of niceness to the tension and menace.

Bringing in elements from tech-step DnB to 90s speed garage, JustJosh fuses them into some straight FWD deep tech. A monster of an EP that sums up everything HNH is about. As the winter nights grow longer, don’t fear the darkness - embrace it."
 
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gonzo84d

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datwun said:
gonzo84d: Big up G, glad you're feeling the sounds! Agreed and agreed re: subsurface and Stanky Face, though Subsurface do need to get a move on with releasing some of them bangers they're sitting on!
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seriously, they keep adding them to their soundcloud but not putting them out
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I quite like the idea of having mentasms on a deep tech track, not fully feeling the execution though. That Majesty tune just sort of floated past me.

As this thread has proven many times over though my judgements are not to be trusted.
 
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gonzo84d

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Corpsey said:
I quite like the idea of having mentasms on a deep tech track, not fully feeling the execution though. That Majesty tune just sort of floated past me.

As this thread has proven many times over though my judgements are not to be trusted.
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that's how i've felt with nearly all majesty's productions lately. for some reason -- density of percussion maybe? -- this one is clicking.

and about mentasms -- nice to have some variation of sounds in deep tech that are on the harder side rather than the techier. the weird execution i took to be the mokujin thing, though could just be off

why're your judgments not to be trusted? wasn't around for the earlier part of the thread, though i've gone back and read through parts. have you been keeping up with this stuff, liking anything in particular?
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I was one of those people on here (of a fair few ppl to be merciful to me) who dismissed deep tech as boring, 'just house', etc., at the start. I think it was a continuum mix that changed my mind at first, then that LEE B3 set with the MCing really turned my head, then I went to Frequency (the ONLY exciting rave I've been to in about six or seven years) and...

Unfortunately I was outside of london when my deep tech phase was in so I didn't reach any raves and my interest has died down ever since then. Actually I might never have reached all these raves since I'm now pretty washed-up :D
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I mean, my enthusiasm might be rekindled by a good rave. Certainly I felt like seeing how these tunes went off at Frequency, with a crowd full of people shuffling and blowing horns and doing balloons, etc, was like a revelation to me.


Actually this post more or less summarises the gradual explosion of my skepticism.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Looking back, that was probably one of the best, most honest things I ever wrote online, even though it isn't particularly well written. It's cringeworthy in places, but all the right places.

The one metaphor in it I liked is this

''All those jabbing beats get your feet moving almost automatically. Your head drops (and face screws) as if your ducking headfirst into battle. (Just as Jungle naturally makes your arms flail like a Gibbon that’s miscalculated a jump.)''

Though I'm not going to hold this half-baked blog post up as some sort of shining example, I do think that this is the type of writing that music publications would benefit from featuring more of - reports back from the 'frontline' of clubland, rather than overthought analysis of tunes from somebody sitting listening to them on their laptop.
 
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