rolling back to the future garage/post-dubstep/alt-funkstep/intelli-2step etc thread

[slackk]

Shizzle hosting that line-up will be mad tbh.
I do intend to show up from the start and drink myself stupid btw Alex.

 

[gostwan]

Allow me to point some of you in the direction of the VVV projects EP, should be out in a few weeks, clips are up at www.myspace.com/fortifiedaudio

 

[alex]

Shizzle hosting that line-up will be mad tbh.
I do intend to show up from the start and drink myself stupid btw Alex.

sounds good.

 

[Blackdown]

My 130 summary in Pitchfork via my blog. Lots of Dissensian's mentioned.

(Oh and Tim, as soon as I find loads of upfront UK funky I'm feeling enough to hype in Pitchfork in full, I will...)

 

[Alfons]

good summary, but mostly Im interested in the picture from the blog

is there a bigger more legible version of this pic about?

 

[Leo]

My 130 summary in Pitchfork via my blog.

great stuff, as always, thanks. the link to the geeneus podcast doesn't work, do you have another one?

 

[Blackdown]

gee, tippa, katie b reup: kerpow!

 

[Leo]

gee, tippa, katie b reup: kerpow!

thanks!

 

[alex]

i love the way that was wrote on graph paper, was that intentional?

 

[jimitheexploder]

I'm kind of addicted to that new Floating Points track Peoples Potential its got those acid house vibes going on.

 

[Blackdown]

yeah, i've got one of those Moleskine books for my never ending to-do lists... i think if you grow up writing with a pen it never quite leaves you.

 

[Ory]

"His debut release, a SLACKK001 white label, is the Wiley-inspired "Fire Flies"."

any word on when this is dropping?

 

[jimitheexploder]

^ I'd like to know about that too, I've really been digging the odd track Slackk has put up for download on here.

 

[wise]

I thought Peru/Fire Flies was coming out on Numbers?

 

[paolo]

130 is the new 140

 

[Blackdown]

130 has been effectively "decoupled" from 140 . the idiots can have their wobble. the rest of us? let's roll...

 

[FairiesWearBoots]

I dont even see it as a BPM thing, I think that can get a bit too elitist also,

I like 140 but I am with you all the way on moving away from endless Distance copies

I think its more about the vibes & sounds, the best D&B always had light & dark, it had CONTRAST (some of Groove's epic sets at Blue Note as an example)

The music just needs contrast, and dubstep is now where DnB went (PEAK all night, full revs in 5th gear)

 

[benjybars]

yeah c'mon there's still so much good stuff being made at 140.

that brackles remix of I love london that you mention in pitchfork article is 140. so is hyph mngo..

 

[Blackdown]

yeah course, you're totally right. we still write some beats at 138-140. i used 140 as shorthand for wobble, but there is good stuff there still, we're we're still repping.

i also chose to say "130" because it's suitably musically neutral. no one is going to mistake it for an actual genre (see the wobble debacle).

 

[Aww Nein]

for me the way fwd (on a purely personal level) is 150bpm, but with much less ephaisis on the kicks, layers of quantised claves and hihats, basically Juke, but also linking with the dbridge type stuff where its fast but without the kick it kinda glides over you.

i dunno if its cos i kinda came into this music through dubstep and grime, but i feel 140 bpm is a plateau where anything faster then that is almost slightly unnatural, and so your inclined to hear it or move to it more at half the tempo.