I don't know about that, I've never even been to a London club! However this mix by Bok Bok from the end of 2010 still serves as a source of excitement and hope for meSo if there are distinct centres of gravity appearing in the interstellar hydrogen cloud of post-dubstep producers, are the DJs and promoters separating out as well?
I'm totally out of the loop on london clubbing, so I basically don't know...
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There's definitely plenty of variation in there from Pearson Sound to Lil Silva to Kingdom but it sounds pretty coherent to me. For the most part, there's a dark almost minimalistic vibe to it which hearkens back to early grime and electro without really being either (aside from the actual early grime bits). And you won't find any traces of future garage/intelli-2step or alt-funkstep in there either, well maybe alt-funkstep because I've no idea what that term stands for. If I had to make a ridiculous analogy, I'd say it's like a hand of clubs and spades, which might not be all that useful on the playing field but at least makes more sense together than a mixture of diamonds, spades, tarot cards and a yu-gi-oh collection.
Listening to that Bok Bok mix I don't even want to have too much of the same thing in one scene, but definitely the lines need to be drawn a little stronger and I think the possibilities for doing that are becoming gradually more obvious.
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