90's Tech-Step C/D, S/D

Nice selection!

Can I just add that all the recent Metalheadz remasters are worth listening to - they genuinely seem to bring out some new details in the tracks, the Nast Habits in your playlist being but one example.

Also I kind of object to notions of this sound “making a comeback”. 2020 may have been the best year ever for dnb and that’s coming from someone listening since the so called halcyon days. Maybe more for the actual Junglist Massive thread on here but check anything on The Dreamers Recordings, straight outta Turin, Italy as an example.

yeah, that's fair enough, I'm just a dabbler in this stuff, not an expert!

Yeah as I suggested upthread I was trying to pick out a kind of secret thread or narrative that runs through some techstep and surrounding sounds, and avoid entirely the kind of orthodoxy that almost everything had hardened into by about 1998.

Yes - sorry, I meant to say that this was based on my initial expectations (from having coincidentally just created a Spotify account to listen to your Melbourne/Vancouver mix, saw the "techstep" mix, and listened to it expecting something exhausting).

Clearly I need to give Slow Motion a listen. I'm continually astonished by the depth and range of "golden years" drum n bass/jungle, even zooming in on 1997 (perhaps this shouldn't be so surprising to me, given that my own introduction to drum n bass was in 1997 via a random purchase of Spring Heel Jack's Busy Curious Thirsty, which doesn't fit into my naive "everything from 1997 onwards is techstep).