Tech Itch - DUBSTEP SET!! 8th April

thundercleese · Post by **thundercleese** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:15 pm

anyone know what the one track is that has the eerie female vocal in it? its not any of the ones on the myspace page...

robo-dub · Post by **robo-dub** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:36 pm

Robo-Dub wrote:Tech Itch doing dubstep? I'm scared for my ears... in a good way... sure to be deadly man... blatantly there, love therapy sessions...

er, no i won't, just noticed it's in bristol. and it's not therapy sessions. hehe, not paying attention.

n-type · Post by **n-type** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:56 pm

FUCKIN MASSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

broken silence · Post by **broken silence** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:35 pm

Have to agree with everyone that this sound fucking huge. Heres the obligatory evil looking devil face to signifie how with it i am

and heres another cos-im-so-fucking-next-level

Anywho, i wondered whether or not it would be a matter of time for the rest of the tech freak crew to get in on dubstep after i heard mc jakes was part of H.E.N.C.H, but i doubted it. Im very very very glad to be proven totaly wrong.
I feel tech itch reached a brilliant peak with his tunes around the time of "pressure drop". That tune mixes bloodclot-break-mashup with a proper groovy bassline, gets the feet moving while still being sinister and moody. Bit like a very forward thinking genre of music that has a similarly named night i know....
After that though, maby (although i know people will disagree with this) just maby he started getting abit too dark, and ended up, as that Ben Blah UFO dude said, just sounding angry.
I think the whole darkside drum and bass thing can get abit formulaic at times as well, when it just ends up being noisy with no real groove. People like limewax and gein keep the game up though, but even then i dont know if neither them nor the big guns like dylan or b-key could drop a whole album and have it sonically diverse past two or three tracks. (and for the record paul blackout is naff speed metal with nicked dnb breaks, Enduser shits on him from a a great height).

Still, neutral like switzerland to both arguements i may be, i still reckon tech itch is the daddy and will be locked on with baited ears.

subframe · Post by **subframe** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:47 pm

Am I the only one underwhelmed by Tech Itch's entry into dubstep? I mean, the guy's a master, and was my hero for years, and I own more of his records than from any other single person.

But... meh

Implant sounds pretty good and all, but it just doesn't impress me as much as I thought it would.

Okay, I'll shut up now til I produce something better, lol

twenty3 · Post by **twenty3** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:05 pm

Gutter wrote: Final version features tasty 303 acid lockdown in the latter half. Sent to the cutting plant yesterday, apparently. Hold tight...

Yeah, that sudden acid line that comes in on the back half completly caught me by suprise. Reminds of old Neil Landstum tunes for some reason.

man and machine · Post by **man and machine** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:35 pm

[quote="subframe"]But... meh

Implant sounds pretty good and all, but it just doesn't impress me as much as I thought it would./quote]

yeah i was also expecting a bit more from implant. but then again, i've only just heard the clip on myspace

early days yet! i still think tech itch is gonna drop some BIG TINGS!

rekordah · Post by **rekordah** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:03 am

any audio for this? i think i attended...cant rememba

eski442 · Post by **eski442** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:00 pm

ill honest, i do like tech itch as producer. mans got some beasty tunes, but his dubstep lacks somethin in some records.

altho best dnb producer doin dubstep atm has to be twisted individual(bogeyman).

myspaced him the other day and told him to stop wastin his time with dnb and come to the darkside lol

rekordah · Post by **rekordah** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:29 pm

eski442 wrote: altho best dnb producer doin dubstep atm has to be twisted individual(bogeyman).

myspaced him the other day and told him to stop wastin his time with dnb and come to the darkside lol

heard sum of his tunes and imo they are nothing special, pretty formulaic

eski442 · Post by **eski442** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:31 pm

each to their own bruv.

id say hes got the ideal sound tho

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:32 pm

rekorder wrote:any audio for this? i think i attended...cant rememba

no there isn't/wasn't.

rekordah · Post by **rekordah** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:36 pm

eski442 wrote:each to their own bruv.

id say hes got the ideal sound tho

fairplay

ThinKing wrote:
rekorder wrote:any audio for this? i think i attended...cant rememba
no there isn't/wasn't.

gash

a_k47 · Post by **a_k47** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:46 pm

love his d&b to death but not realy feeling his dubstep bad man producer never the less been rinsin his tunes 4 years on hardware tech itch recordings
ruff neck ting and many other labels

sorry im so buzzin i put this in the wrong post please delete mods plz

rekordah · Post by **rekordah** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:48 pm

really shocked that ppl dont rate is dubstep productions that much, they are some of the best tunes to come out of this genre imo

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:53 pm

rekorder wrote:really shocked that ppl dont rate is dubstep productions that much, they are some of the best tunes to come out of this genre imo

i think the issue people take (certainly I do) is that he's brought a lot of his dnb production techniques over, particularly the fad nowadays for massively limited, completely dynamic-free, wall-of-noise stylings and heavy heavy distortion. That was never what dubstep was about before, so to a lot of fans it just doesn't make any sense - I get the feeling that TI just heard a few tunes and has slowed his bpm down to 140 without actually listening to how the music works.

rekordah · Post by **rekordah** » Thu May 10, 2007 1:07 pm

ThinKing wrote:
rekorder wrote:really shocked that ppl dont rate is dubstep productions that much, they are some of the best tunes to come out of this genre imo
i think the issue people take (certainly I do) is that he's brought a lot of his dnb production techniques over, particularly the fad nowadays for massively limited, completely dynamic-free, wall-of-noise stylings and heavy heavy distortion. That was never what dubstep was about before, so to a lot of fans it just doesn't make any sense - I get the feeling that TI just heard a few tunes and has slowed his bpm down to 140 without actually listening to how the music works.

understand what ur sayin but this genre is still wide open in my opinion, i dont think he should have to change what he does to fit in the sorts of sounds that are getting played atm. why cant he bring his style to the plate?

rekordah · Post by **rekordah** » Thu May 10, 2007 1:12 pm

ThinKing wrote:That was never what dubstep was about before

what about vex'd?

shards · Post by **shards** » Thu May 10, 2007 1:56 pm

ThinKing wrote:
rekorder wrote:really shocked that ppl dont rate is dubstep productions that much, they are some of the best tunes to come out of this genre imo
i think the issue people take (certainly I do) is that he's brought a lot of his dnb production techniques over, particularly the fad nowadays for massively limited, completely dynamic-free, wall-of-noise stylings and heavy heavy distortion. That was never what dubstep was about before, so to a lot of fans it just doesn't make any sense - I get the feeling that TI just heard a few tunes and has slowed his bpm down to 140 without actually listening to how the music works.

I don't think that's fair- none of the Ascension releases are massive choppage affairs like the majority of his D&B, they're spartan but welcome-programmed industrial beats that as already mentioned, share the same realm as Vex'd. That said, I could see how they would not appeal to the half-step massive.

cogi · Post by **cogi** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:52 pm

Fucks sake let the man make music. It's not like he's dominating the sound or anything

Diversity is the spice of life, bring all styles in tocreate more interesting and innovating music. DnB has a lot to offer dubstep, well at least a bit.

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