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... is it me, or do things really start to make sense again at around 134?

hell yeah...
what dr.dre said...slower is better

Interesting. I've been feeling the same. As Blackdown put it in a recent blog, "I feel an urge to drop the bpms and up the groove." (http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/)

I wonder whether we're starting to see a BPM split in the scene - with some going faster and harder and others going slower and funkier.

would it not make things quite difficult for djing though to fuck around with bpm?

ponte_ricky wrote:would it not make things quite difficult for djing though to fuck around with bpm?

Doesn't seem to matter that much in other genres... DnB moves around a bit, so does a lot of house and oldschool rave stuff... Dubstep DJs have it easy at the moment as far as beatmatching goes!

Think about all the beatmatches a Hip Hop DJ has to do!

if DMZ taught me anything, its that dubsteppers like to maintain their groove, so dont move the bpm tooooooo far....

138 is my favourite bpm.

everything is super head-noddable or skank-outable there.

over 140 is too fast imo. (unless its dnb etc. of course)

150 .... jungggleeee or 130

Well I've noticed that whenever Skream does a remix of a tune it seems to be 146.. which was weird, but still works!

Haha ive had many of discussions with producers about this..

We have came to the conclusion..

130-138ish = more groove, soul, space.

139-145ish = more dance inclined energy.


Though this is pretty bollocks - seeing as you can get groove and energy out of any BPM if you try hard enough - it seems to be if you want something to nod your head to drop it down if you want to wave your hands like a flid on the dance floor - raise it.

I move the tempo quite a bit, generally starting around 132/33 (though I have been known to go as low as 127) and building it up to 140

we've done our last 2 hafstep/dubsteppy tunes at 170bpm

Oddly, while I'm starting to prefer making tunes at slow than 140 tempos, when I DJ I always pitch up about 4 or 5%.

Magma wrote:... is it me, or do things really start to make sense again at around 134?

yeah

I like anything faster than 125



but slower isn't always better (sorry Dre)

Surely its up to the DJ how fast its gonna be in the mix, so its never really gonna be its original tempo when being played out

^^^very true but I try not to speed anything up faster than 4% on the pitch slider

Legendary wrote: Though this is pretty bollocks - seeing as you can get groove and energy out of any BPM if you try hard enough.

I think this as well.

I personally like 138.

Also, aren't many of the original dubstep tracks slightly lower than 140?

hummer197933 wrote:hell yeah...
what dr.dre said...slower is better

bollocks

133.5 is the danciest BPM of them all. You can go all night Can't remember who said that, some big producer or DJ...

I've been trying some of that 95bpm glitchop-hop/lazer base or whatever it's called stuff lately. Satisfying Jazzy/funky grooveland here I come!