I'm not saying you can't have fun in London. I'm saying that generally on a London night out you have to 'put up' with a lot. Maybe it's crowd aggrro. Probably it's at least one DJ breaking in to really boring tech house lol. Maybe it's people scowling at you when you smile at them. Maybe it's too many people concerned more about looking cool that partying.
Incidentally my favourite nights out in London recently have been both very low key and based totally on imported music - Jambie's We Buy Gold at the Alibi, pure footwork, juke, trap and 160 all night long, consistently great music, and a crowd which highlights everything wrong with a London crowd lol. And then Marcus Nasty's post-Rinse parties at the Vibe Bar, which is fun cause it's usually a crowd of 20-30 people going apeshit to Jackin (on two very nice Funktion One stacks) on a wednesday.
Birmingham and 2:31 is literally another level right not, it's just that vybe of a scene totally at it's peak, the sense that everyone who parties in the city knows what's going on. It's somewhere between overground and underground, you can ask any 20 something at a pub on Sunday if they were at the Rainbow last night and they'll know what you're on about, but it's not where clubbing tourists go.
What's amazing is there's nothing you have to put up with at 2:31. The vibe's not sleazy, like it doesn't have that stench of desperate sex I find you get in a lot of London clubs, which on the flipside means you can just chat and dance with everyone, guys and girls, without people being defensive or standoffish. I went by myself for New Years and was never without a group of people do dance with, smoke a joint with, chill out with, the vibe is just so positive it's electric. And then the music's banging start to finish, ram packed with totally peak moments of collective euphoria, everyone singing along to You Want Me, big groups of strangers dropping to the floor waiting for the drop to Snapbacks and Tattoos together, people running to the dancefloor from the bar when they hear Nick Hannam's Biggie coming in.
Like I'm from London, I love London, some of the best night's of my life have been in London (Including Butterz back in March '12 and Ben UFO b2b Joy O back in March '11) but honestly it doesn't even compare to the scene in Brum ATM.
Kinda irrelevant for me now anyway as I'm now living in Tokyo! From the small amount I've seen so far the Bass scene seems small here but packed entirely with safe people. What's amazing is how into hard drugs everyone is here!!!! Wait, what I mean is what's amazing is how if you're caught with any amount of marijuana on you whatsoever it's 5 years in jail if you're Japanese, and a month in Jail + deportation + barring from Japan for life if you're a foreigner
Still, looking forward to getting more involved in the scene here, definitely plenty of stuff to check out! I'm also thinking of getting a Mix-CD out as a business card and trying to piggy back Jackin into the much, much larger Electro house scene out here.
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Apparently this track was available for free download but is now available instead for £2 from your local bigtunes!
I absolutely love it though, like where else but Jackin can a mix of deep house, donk and dancehall feel so right?
Some darkside hip-hop mudness from man like Paul Lawrence
http://www.bigtunesmp3.co.uk/search...-bigtunes-exclusive-by-benzo-paul-lawrence/#2
I know this one's a percy of Jambie's! Perfectly cheesy vox X very grimy bassline
http://www.bigtunesmp3.co.uk/tunes/loneliness-by-chester/
