Techstep Mix (1997 - 2002)

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  • Techstep has been my favourite DnB subgenre since I discovered it in 2020. It's dark, agressive, smart and precise. Here is a mix of my fav tracks from the late 90's to early 2000's era. The image you see is kind of what techstep visually reminds me of, but it would be very tedious to explain. Anyway, I hope that you'll enjoy this mix as much as I did when creating it !
    Tracklist :
    0:00 Makai - Black Belt 2nd Dan // 1998
    6:54 Absolute Zero & Subphonics - The Code (Future Cut Remix) // 1999
    12:49 Ed Rush & Optical - The Medicine (Original Mix) // 1998
    19:50 Ed Rush & Optical feat. Matrix - Flightpath // 2000
    26:29 Ed Rush & Optical - Watermelon // 1999
    32:48 Ed Rush & Optical - Gas Mask // 1999
    40:20 Dom & Roland - Imagination // 2002
    49:15 Makai - Overfiend // 1998
    56:24 Konflict - New World Order // 2000
    1:03:28 Bad Company - Refuge // 1999
    1:10:28 Ray Keith - D4 Toxic Waste // 1998
    1:15:56 Future Forces Inc. - Dead By Dawn (The Final Chapter) // 1998
    1:22:17 Makai - Beneath The Mask // 1998
    1:30:19 Mampi Swift - Soul // 1997
    1:36:00 Acen - 116.7 (Remix) // 1999
    1:41:26 Mampi Swift - 2nd Strike // 1998
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  • @andreasfreimueller2141
    @andreasfreimueller2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    ahhh the late 90s.. when electronic music was crisply digital, frenetically hyper-rhythmic and futuristic!

    • @InfernAlien
      @InfernAlien ปีที่แล้ว

      And really... REALLY fucking dark.
      I'm convinced that drum and bass music is the orchestra for satanist rituals.

    • @knucklestheechidna5718
      @knucklestheechidna5718 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's the best!

    • @andressantibanez4699
      @andressantibanez4699 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Es la pura verdad, desde May Puj, Albania.

    • @Embrod
      @Embrod 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      based on trackers, sometime synths...

  • @CGK3001
    @CGK3001 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I feel like I'd visually describe it is clinical, yet industrial machinery. There's so much rhythm, yet punchy "random"/deliberate motifs. Sirens, crunchy and crispy high hats followed by going through a corridor fade-out/in to a different section. A random amen break to bring you back even though it's already high energy.
    I... Heard this kind of stuff before, but putting a name to it? I know people roll their eyes at classifications, but when there's names/umbrellas, it can help you piece together the puzzle if you're not already familiar with the scene. BLESS for this mix!!!

    • @DashNode
      @DashNode  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I really like your description of it! Thanks and cheers

  • @schizopathwrath
    @schizopathwrath 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent track selection and everything flowed together nicely.

  • @thehartist1980
    @thehartist1980 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    DUUUDDDEEEE!! What A funky TEK set!! takes me back!!

  • @jpphoton
    @jpphoton หลายเดือนก่อน

    yes

  • @breathinginpizza
    @breathinginpizza 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the mix and the cover art

  • @KH_1
    @KH_1 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    this photo match the sound perfectly.

    • @DashNode
      @DashNode  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      glad to see people I'm not the only one thinking this :)

    • @jpphoton
      @jpphoton หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DashNode its a state of mind I guess

  • @Signature5848
    @Signature5848 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice work

  • @reubenmarques1323
    @reubenmarques1323 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Love the gritty, brutal & industrial multi story carpark image, so dissonant and fitting to this technical mix

    • @DashNode
      @DashNode  2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'm impressed, with these words you exactly described why I chose this image !

    • @reubenmarques1323
      @reubenmarques1323 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DashNode Love man!

    • @flocon9388
      @flocon9388 ปีที่แล้ว

      This feel like a backroom's level

    • @danieldemayo6209
      @danieldemayo6209 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I want to live there lol

    • @ulfgar_hallgrimsson
      @ulfgar_hallgrimsson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Been to so many places like this for some mad parties over the years. Carparks, railway workshops, warehouses on ports, tunnels, defuct métro stations, disused airport hangers.... proper atmospheric.

  • @mtguitar5150
    @mtguitar5150 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Somewhere in remote upstate NY 1999, yes!

  • @chrislogan6122
    @chrislogan6122 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I got here coz i cant sleep, somehow i discovered the name of genre that nfs carbon had.
    Good times

  • @ditadordasverdades8866
    @ditadordasverdades8866 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    make techstep great again

  • @dmitrydmitry716
    @dmitrydmitry716 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Big up for the mix! New World Order and Refuge are one of my all time faves, Konflict, Bad Company, Ed & Optical are the creme de la creame of 90-s techstep sound

  • @greymonleggomon1185
    @greymonleggomon1185 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I used to love going to the middle of know where to find a tech step illigal rave. Some of the best nights ive ever had. Such a gret era of music. Just listening to this mix brings back so much nostalgia

  • @nahiankabyo4296
    @nahiankabyo4296 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    19 minutes in...and i am still thinking i am listening just one continuous track :)

  • @mysteryY2K
    @mysteryY2K 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    big man ting

  • @vadymmmm4103
    @vadymmmm4103 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    2024 год ... А я только понял что то что мне нравится называется техстеп )) микс просто ахуенный ❤

    • @DashNode
      @DashNode  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Спасибо за комплимент ! Мне также потребовалось много времени, чтобы понять, что это называется техстеп... как только вы это узнаете, вы не сможете перестать слушать (извините, я использовал Google Translate)

    • @vadymmmm4103
      @vadymmmm4103 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DashNode 🔥💜

    • @jonathantaylor-thomas464
      @jonathantaylor-thomas464 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Подсел на иглу текстепа и нейрофанка в 2017ом, до сих пор не могу слезть. Да даже хорошо, что не могу, микс шикарный

  • @agugyin
    @agugyin 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Great mix!! It's 2023 and still sounds like something from the far future! Techstep has a sense of energy and intricacy that had no match ever since the 2000s. Image choice

  • @KevinbelUAPBelgium
    @KevinbelUAPBelgium ปีที่แล้ว +1

    true DNB i love it

  • @srnq11
    @srnq11 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    молодец!!! охуительный микс 🔥🔥🔥

  • @alakaev
    @alakaev ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thanks bro. respect from Russia

  • @nathanyoung4736
    @nathanyoung4736 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Techstep is my favourite genre of DnB. I discovered it on GTA3 on MSX FM and it was on Midnight Club. I also believe what we now call Techstep was the ORIGINAL DnB back in the 90s

    • @biokode
      @biokode ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd love to read more about that - got any links? :D

    • @nathanyoung4736
      @nathanyoung4736 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@biokode Wikipedia, haha

    • @barret100
      @barret100 ปีที่แล้ว

      best fun making the type of music

    • @gorzCondensate96
      @gorzCondensate96 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      original was jungle, darkstep and hardstep
      in the late 90s you finally have techstep

    • @SujetAutomate
      @SujetAutomate ปีที่แล้ว

      Same way here lmao

  • @aaarrrsss8936
    @aaarrrsss8936 ปีที่แล้ว

    Neo

  • @aaarrrsss8936
    @aaarrrsss8936 ปีที่แล้ว

    Zen

  • @PerMo387
    @PerMo387 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I accidentally made a techstep track couldnt figure out what genre it was because ib never heard of it

  • @trashrabbit69
    @trashrabbit69 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Glad to see Makai get some love in this mix. One of the trendsetters for the techstep era up there with Dom & Roland, Optical, Ed Rush and Fierce. Digital & Spirit were starting their incredible careers in this genre as well, not long before they became heavyweights.

    • @user-qp4ru7hn8d
      @user-qp4ru7hn8d 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree, beneath the mask is phenomenal

  • @knucklestheechidna5718
    @knucklestheechidna5718 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome for later night computing. The golden moment was when my wife walked in the room with a puzzled look on her face and said "what you doing?!"

  • @nahiankabyo4296
    @nahiankabyo4296 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    regarding the visual...in my mind it sounds more red or greenish...a bit sense of warning or factory or toxic something something

  • @Sevish
    @Sevish ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This goes absolutely hard bruv

  • @DashNode
    @DashNode  3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Tracklist is in the video description

  • @TheOwlripper
    @TheOwlripper ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a really incredible selection smoothing mixed and presented, perfect for if you've been long into this and surrounding styles, or you just happened across it unaware but gave it a try. Really gets warmed up from 56:24 onwards, but the whole trip is immense once you're really listening. Thank you for reminders and introductions to more artists creating these sounds.

  • @enzozeb
    @enzozeb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazing! Thank you! A masterful kicking off point for the world early tech step for the drum and bass enthusiast.

  • @snoz9048
    @snoz9048 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Nice work here mate - this is a truly great selection and mix! 👍💯🔥. Really enjoyed this, thank you!
    What's amazing to me is - and I grew up raving to this at the time - that this stuff is still light years ahead of any other electronic genre. It's aged incredibly well, and it's awesome to see people are still discovering it and totally getting the vibe!

  • @TheOwlripper
    @TheOwlripper ปีที่แล้ว

    Went back to 32:48 (1225 years into the future!), Ed Rush & Optical - Gas Mask tune blows me away. If that doesn't put a smile on people's faces (the first tune and then what it morphs into), I don't know what will. 🙂

  • @reereelization
    @reereelization 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yoooooo. This was rugged. Very very well done. 💪💪💪

  • @sinis7r
    @sinis7r 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    great

  • @soulbrother5435
    @soulbrother5435 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thats what I exactly looked for, more punchy and distorted dnb. Thanks for mix

  • @GiorgiAkhalaia
    @GiorgiAkhalaia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So energetic

  • @allgoa
    @allgoa ปีที่แล้ว

    precision breakbeat research was so güdd!

  • @reereelization
    @reereelization 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is such a pristine mix. Wow. ….make moar! 🙏🙏

  • @djresource717
    @djresource717 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice mix

  • @TheOwlripper
    @TheOwlripper ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Also, more thanks for the 1:36:00 Acen track! I knew the Trip II The Moon era releases at the time, but don't think I've heard anything else of his so checked it out. This remix is pure hypnosis!

  • @4hnn3d
    @4hnn3d ปีที่แล้ว

    I keep coming back to this mix, best one out there for sure.

  • @someonewhosings
    @someonewhosings ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this is a wicked mix mate, thanks so much. It's literally my childhood, tune after tune!

  • @seamusmoran4776
    @seamusmoran4776 ปีที่แล้ว

    Absolute FIRE mix

  • @TheOwlripper
    @TheOwlripper 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Back here for about the 6th time in a couple of months! 1:03:28 Bad Company - Refuge is hurtling up the list of my all-time favourite electronic tracks now.. when that timing and riff change drops in, it's glorious!

  • @GentleJungle
    @GentleJungle 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    😮ok love it except at 1:22:17 or so wtf woa what happened there

  • @AffinityAtl
    @AffinityAtl ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember sneaking out of my folks house, i was a junior in high school, to go to a rave with my "cool" friends from school. Headliner was DJ Micro and i believe supporting act was DJ Baby Anne. I was super excited, anyways i get in the venue and the main room had headlining PLUR going on. I'm roaming around the club on stuff that I'd rather not mention. I see a absolutely dark room, reeked of trees getting burnt. As i get closer, a massive wall of 20-125Hz bass blasted me, I'm like omfg! That night forever changed my EDM preferences, it inspired me to get into music production and sound design, which became an absolute obsession for at least a decade. Dnb/techstep/neurofunk/jump up & jungle have shaped my person, my intellect, my perceived view on life and my world. I became a junglist and a real bass head that night and never looked back. Real bass head way before Bassnectar even had the idea to call his following, Bass Heads. I've seen DieselBoy two times. He's the godfather for stateside dnb, DJ Dara, AK1200, DJ DB, Hive, just to name a few stateside producers/DJs. Welcome to the elite my friend!

    • @AffinityAtl
      @AffinityAtl ปีที่แล้ว +2

      RENEGADE HARDWARE get on it. I thank God twice a week for that record label, gone but never forgotten!

  • @shubzin5827
    @shubzin5827 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    absolutely banging thanks xo

  • @iannluci
    @iannluci 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Daaamn son ! That ray Keith track 🔥 at 1.10.00

  • @musicglich1254
    @musicglich1254 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    WoW Thanks, awesome mix!

  • @padrianfrazier
    @padrianfrazier 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I hated this style of drum and bass back when it was popular. I stopped going to raves because it's all they would play. And yet, 20 plus years later, I've got to admit that this mix f*cking slaps. My goodness. I guess having the pic of the best, looking back in hindsight, has a certain advantage

    • @tonnentonie2767
      @tonnentonie2767 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God I would give everything to be alive to witness that time

    • @padrianfrazier
      @padrianfrazier 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Only-Memories-In-The-End Sounds incredible. Great times those were.

  • @un_reveur
    @un_reveur 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is dope!!! 👍👍👍

  • @Kisslove50
    @Kisslove50 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice!👍🏼

  • @user-sc4ni3xy9h
    @user-sc4ni3xy9h 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Makai Overfiend - Дэновское шоссе

  • @jsieie
    @jsieie ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good mix

  • @ultraskool
    @ultraskool 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you've only just 'discovered' it in 2020!!? all those years you've been missing on the awesome Techstep sounds. I've been listening to it since Kapricorn's tune" "Sureshot" back in 2001. The name 'Techstep' itself is so ultra cool!

    • @DashNode
      @DashNode  2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yeah I learned about it in 2020, I'm 19 and where I live drum n bass doesn't really get promoted a lot appart from recent liquid producers.... So before really knowing about it I simply knew I loved "a dark, precise, technologic-sounding kind of drum n bass", but that was kinda hard to search on TH-cam haha ! Once I stumbled accross a (now defunct) YT Channel called "techstep sound" which uploaded some of it, I finally had put the name on this kind of DnB I loved so much.

  • @JeSorsLesPoopBelles
    @JeSorsLesPoopBelles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    J'avais gardé cette vidéo de côté pour l'écouter plus tard, je suis pas déçu de l'avoir gardé (;
    Merci pour ce Mix (:

    • @DashNode
      @DashNode  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      De rien ! Je suis content de voir que des gens apprécient ce type de musique :)

  • @aaarrrsss8936
    @aaarrrsss8936 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Coolsound.

  • @Gigabite108
    @Gigabite108 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tech step had misterious soul, people creep at tunel look some hide things

  • @1djbeing
    @1djbeing ปีที่แล้ว

    heaaaavy mix

  • @viacheslavronenko7278
    @viacheslavronenko7278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:37:02 what a banger

  • @johndoe-qb1fq
    @johndoe-qb1fq ปีที่แล้ว +2

    666 likes !

  • @nahiankabyo4296
    @nahiankabyo4296 ปีที่แล้ว

    btw...i found it just randomly writting "techstep" wondering if this thing actually exists :)
    bruh...this sounds exactly what i was anticipating

  • @aaarrrsss8936
    @aaarrrsss8936 ปีที่แล้ว

    Old scool dnb forever,vinylizm

  • @sanghyeongpark5859
    @sanghyeongpark5859 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    nice work💯💯💯

  • @9TXONE
    @9TXONE 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good job!

  • @joeyparedes15
    @joeyparedes15 ปีที่แล้ว

    400th likeeee

  • @aaarrrsss8936
    @aaarrrsss8936 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gooddd

  • @frantisekskrivanek602
    @frantisekskrivanek602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Buddy, If you´re into techstep, then totally check Torque (No U Turn). It´s a bible of techstep.

    • @DashNode
      @DashNode  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi ! well, u can't miss No U Turn that's for sure ! Approximately one year after uploading this mix, I indeed discovered no u turn with Nico's Lo tune and immediately fell in love with the sick vibe of this track as well as many other releases on the label. An important piece of techstep history 💯 cheers !

  • @thesicillianbull
    @thesicillianbull 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Let's gooo bring back eklektik san francisco !!!!!!!!!! Dina where u at

  • @hokage1997
    @hokage1997 ปีที่แล้ว

    "watch your step when partying underground, you might slip and end up in the backrooms"

  • @ArvoVenkatron
    @ArvoVenkatron 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    DRTY AF! Good mix Fren

    • @DashNode
      @DashNode  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks a lot !!!

  • @enzozeb
    @enzozeb 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I understand what you mean about the chosen picture. It would take a long time to describe in words but I see you :)

    • @DashNode
      @DashNode  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad we understand each other on that point !

  • @Tara_Masika
    @Tara_Masika 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Wtf! An ACTUAL techstep mix. This is awsome I am absolutely made up! Nice work man! Reach for the lazers!

    • @Bweezy320
      @Bweezy320 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Safe as fuck!

  • @user-jr6oj7fb8r
    @user-jr6oj7fb8r 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Add.

  • @sinis7r
    @sinis7r 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    dead by dawn is too superior

  • @ThaGamingMisfit
    @ThaGamingMisfit 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Back in my day this was just Drum&Bass, I'm getting old !

  • @3FourFour5
    @3FourFour5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wait it isn't techno combined with dubstep?

    • @DashNode
      @DashNode  2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I don't know if this is a troll comment, but no, this is not a mixture of techno and dubstep. It is techstep, a subgenre of drum and bass music. Google it and you'll find some info.

  • @MJD81
    @MJD81 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Not really a mix, more fading one track into the other out of sync and playing the whole of each track. 🫠

    • @DashNode
      @DashNode  12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And you're right. This was all done in Reaper and as I don't have any DJ-ing experience I struggled quite a bit with the transitions, and when to make them happen in the tracks.
      However in my defense I had no idea of what to call this, apart from maybe a "compilation"... so I went for a "mix". ✌

    • @egamer1045
      @egamer1045 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@DashNode Hey man, I'm not sure if that comment compelled you to unlist this video, but there was a period last year where I listened to this daily. I seriously enjoyed the track selection and encourage you to keep it public. Thanks for putting it together!

  • @bolt52r
    @bolt52r ปีที่แล้ว

    boring mixing

    • @DashNode
      @DashNode  ปีที่แล้ว

      I appreciate your honesty !
      Indeed I labeled this as a mix but it is more of a rendered medley of tracks (I made it in Reaper, as I don’t own any dj gear)
      At the time my only goal was to make the very end of the tracks blend together as seamlessly as possible, I should have played more on the simultaneous playback of the tracks...