Or more broadly that sound that distinguished 'London' from house.
i think this is key really
Or more broadly that sound that distinguished 'London' from house.
even tryna tag this all as "130" is abit wtf
When was the last time a club gave birth to a 'sound'?
I don't think mood and tempo need to be set up as mutually exclusive ways of understanding this stuff. It might be better to think of the emphasis on 130 as a kind of organizing category, or as one way of approaching the sound that compliments its shared pirate radio/nuum ethos. I suspect if you conducted a basic sort of sociology of this stuff (which as a DJ/label-head/journo Blackdown kind of does) I think it's fair to say theres a general trend towards 130, and away from the two poles of 140 (dubstep) and 120ish (house). Since you're trying to blend/blur between funky (traditionally sub 130) and grime & dubstep (140) 130 feels about right doesn't it? And if you're DJing this stuff, you can set controls for 130, and include pretty much all of this stuff by pitching up and down where necessary, so I think that's probably partly where that figure comes from too.