vinyl making a noticeable shift away from 140

[crabb_steppa]

lots of good stuff coming out at 128


makes me want to find some new sounds at 140

[dickman69]

no

dubstep is dead

no 140 allowed

[Muncey]

Majority of labels releasing 140 on vinyl still are.

[crabb_steppa]

kinda talking about.... online record shops carrying lots of 128 in the same sections that used to be almost exclusively 140


no need to clown me bros


on the lookout for hipper 140 that is up with the hype that seems to surround house music vinyl these days

[Gewze]

mmm vinyl

[Dubber_Dub]

BPM Boundaries are being broken down !

[wooda916]

There's certainly more new labels at the ~130 mark than at 140.

[Mojo]

Only hipsters listen to 140 BPM bassmusic these days.

[Chainsaw Police]

holy shit guys, people write music at slightly different bpm rates. this is big stuff. big big stuff.

[wolf89]

Oh shit. I own records at all sorts of tempos. I must be way ahead of the game

[alphacat]

[Chainsaw Police]

Doctor P's Neon was at 141. Edgy tnuc, he is.

[rorz9992]

I slow all my 140 stuff down to about 136, u mad?

[skimpi]

yeah man I love that new exactly 128 bpm sound

[topmo3]

lol "bass music" being mostly at around 130 has been the status quo for like 3 yrs now

[alphacat]

More generally: "EDM" in the ballpark of 133 - NO WAY!

The whole idea of 133 being the "perfect" BPM has a history - where've I heard it? Larry Levan? 'Modulations' documentary?

It's an academic point at best though. Besides the excellent examples of "what about fat outta shape people tho?" - what about kids? You ever seen anybody successfully dance on time to gabber except a little kid? What about really old people? They're fucking happy to get a groove on at like 33 bpm, let alone 133. Ism schism. Fixed, explicit BPMs are a handy reference for DJ's, not anything to attempt to build a genre out of. I can probably find polka, metal, and classical that's 133 BPM. A groovy song does not cease being groovy when you pitch it up or down +/-5... it's all about the context of the mix to a large degree.

Also, if I recall right in the first place (as to the historical origin of 133 as perfect) it also had to do with the rise of cocaine use in disco dancers. Might be wrong on that one tho.

[skimpi]

aint 133 the bpm of a locked groove at 33rpm? maybe thats the reason

[DJ SaviD]

online record shops carrying lots of 128 in the same sections that used to be almost exclusively 140

This is simply due to the fact that House music is rapidly growing in popularity, even more so than dubstep.

[rorz9992]

this thread is silly

[skimpi]

online record shops carrying lots of 128 in the same sections that used to be almost exclusively 140

This is simply due to the fact that House music is rapidly growing in popularity, even more so than dubstep.

House has always been popular though, 128 doesnt just mean house though ahah, its the fact that at the moment a lot of stuff is being made that is heavily influenced by dubstep, and in some stores dubstep falls in the same area as this bass music stuff, funky, grime etc and alot of it now its slower tempos.

If this saddens you though its not really gonna help, if everyone has moved to slower tempos then you making a post isnt gonna make them rethink their lives and start making 140. 140 is just a tempo anyway.