It often feels surreal to listen back to some of these tracks and then see when they were released. 2001, blimey! Tracks like this pretty much took over at this time and were probably uppermost in a lot of people’s minds when it came to defining “tech house”. I suppose that’s pretty obvious as this tune pretty much nails it. House, a vocal, a more electronic feel and an augmentation of pace. And it’s not just another one of Joshua’s remixes either, a lot of which have a dubbed out feel. This is more strident and even though the vocal is paired down from the original, it is still allowed lots of breathing space. Whatever “tech house” was, it’s not what it is. In any case, it was simple. A coming together of anything from both genres that was suitable for dancing to and could be mixed together without a soundclash. Anything went, within reason. Not Balearic, but very close as far as the spirit of the moment was concerned. I’m talking in the past tense here, but shouldn’t be, as any discerning dance floor pushes this philosophy without having to think too hard.
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