First night (Friday) is a good way to start, Rinse at the dockside arena - swear my ears are still ringing from Distance and Icicle's set there last year
Technics 1210 is definitely not the Audiophile home listening solution. Trouble is you could spend hundreds if not thousands going down that route. Buy one 1210 from ebay/gumtree for a few hundred quid, run it through a cheap numark/vestax mixer and a good Ortofon cartridge and you'll be happy. Then...
FWD>> are just the promoters, and they're affected the same as every other promoter who puts on a dance there. Clearly they're not willing to put up with the low quality of the new sound system, so to preserve the integrity of the dance they've switched up venue for the week. The fuck up is fully do...
I don't think 'Filth' is ruining the scene per se. I think it's the willfully ignorant fans of 'Filth' that are ruining the scene. Dubstep has always been about embracing new and different musical styles and has never been out exclusion and divisiveness, until now it seems. It gets right on my wick ...