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The Tech House Series ep2 - matinales

Welcome to ep2 of the Tech House Series.

Tech house is a subgenre of house music that mixes elements of techno with house. The term tech house developed as a shorthand record store name for a category of electronic dance music that combined musical aspects of techno, such as "rugged basslines" and "steely beats," with the harmonies and grooves of progressive house...As a mixing style, tech-house often brings together deep or minimal techno music, the soulful and jazzy end of house, some minimal techno....There is some overlap with progressive house, which too can contain deep, soulful, dub, and techno elements (Wikipedia) It is said to have origins in the UK from around the 1990's.

It is interesting when trying to define tech house that there is a tendency to see an overlap and sometimes even a fusion of sub genres of house music from techno to progressive. With the Deep House Series well established, the Techno Series going from strength to strength it was only natural to progress with to be honest my favourite, tech house. Again, with these mixes, I look to the dj to give their own personal interpretation of what is tech house.

So we open the series with Aldana, a dj from Madrid, Spain. I have been following Aldana, I believe for a number of years, introduced to me roughly when I started DJSWORK and was very happy when he did a mix for the Deep House Series last year. (Matinales – The-deep-house-series-ep13-aldana) Initially, he had roots in the main in progressive and tribal house, but these days now residing in Dundee, Scotland, his passion in house music has turned in the main to tech house which kind of makes sense when you look at the definition of what is tech house.

Now on to the second episode of the series. Massive thanks to Aldana for opening the series.

"For me tech house is the fusion between house music and it's sub genres, progressive house, to give you uplifting backbeats with a touch of industrial sounds from techno. This can be seen when listening to classic tech, to deep tech to even minimal tech"

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With this podcast I tried to go back and show how it has influenced the sound I like which gets me dancing whether the influence is classic, balearic, deep, vocal or simply traditional.

Massive respect to my peeps and dj/producers, ColeJonson Juanito, Gerald Henderson, Pagano.

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