The term 'Tech House' can't quite do justice to a compilation that's tied together less by genre than pure, unadulterated quality. Encompassing a depth and breadth of contemporary electronic dance music, this 10th instalment in Push's essential underground series can justly claim to be the best yet, packed with boxfresh releases from established veterans and up-and-coming producers alike.
The latter group includes transmissions from Florian Gasperini & Marcan, Benja & Reto Ardour and the dark music-box chimes of Mario Basanov's remix of Lehar's 'Sargas'. Elsewhere, there are synth symphonies from Jona and Matthias Meyer - saturated with intricate, interweaving lines - and fresh reworks of a string of underground sleepers, including the Inner City-esque stabs of Steve Bug's 'A Shot in The Dark', the no-nonsense repetitions of Daniel Dexter's 'No House for Old Men' and Boris Dlugosch's acid-tinged, thumping 'Sweet Talk'.
Big names abound: Alex Niggemann contributes the deep jack of 'Bee' and the enveloping groove of 'Materium'; Vince Watson summons the ghosts of 90s techno for 'Feel It'; Kasper Bjørke delivers poignant disco noir; Phonique and Acumen start out dreamy and build to a massive dancefloor climax on the aptly-titled 'The Moment'.
Playing favourites would be churlish, but Djuma Soundsystem's and Shades Of Gray's 'Madness' wins points for its surreal organ line - as if Jackie Mittoo had taken a sublime wrong turn in the studio corridors - and Lithuania's Few Nolder delivers the thrilling, hyperkinetic monster of 'If'. Kompakt head honcho Michael Mayer rounds off an astonishing ride with an arpeggiated remix of Dreems' 'Mirages', its overloaded distortions a threat to the biggest, baddest speakers. Don't say you weren't warned.