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> I'm perhaps dating myself a bit, but I remember being caught off guard the first time I walked onto the dancefloor at Fabric (a famous nightclub in London).

> I'm perhaps dating myself a bit, but I remember being caught off guard the first time I walked onto the dancefloor at Fabric (a famous nightclub in London). They'd put mechanical transducers under the floorboards and hooked them up to the audio feed, effectively turning the entire dancefloor into one giant subwoofer. [1] I'm dating myself too by saying I always wanted to go to Plastic people back in those days and hear Youngsta dropping dubplates on SLs on a Funktion one system in such a tight room(s), but I had to settle for blowing out subs at 96kbps on pirate Radio (RinseFM) for many years until I finally got to seem him in the US with a Funktion One at Servante's and then the Blackbox in Denver, and a few more times at other venues on subpar sound-systems which didn't have the same effect. Crazy stuff happened at Plastic People, so many crazy stories from residents to one-nighter bedroom DJ appearences made it sound like the holy grail of the Underground British Bass Music scene. That and I was still in my 20s, which will always add an extra glorified lens to anything. I will definitely say something takes over at those sub-bass frequencies (20hrtz) on a proper system, it goes through your body and makes people go crazy on the dancefloor. Pinch articulated it best in my opinion [0]. I met him at a small venue in Hollywood where no one but me knew at the that hour know who he was and we had a really interesting about his label and music in general before his set along the lines of that interview around the same time, he is an incredibly smart person: he even dropped a dubplate (DS - Memory loss VIP) for me and was even kind enough to rewind as it went off! 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXZ1k3nreo0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXZ1k3nreo0

lelandfe 4y ago
I enjoy seeing some heads on HN :) Hello from NYC! Had dreams of going to Plastic, RIP: https://soundcloud.com/floatingpoints/floating-points-four-tet-final-plastic-people-2-1-2015 https://soundcloud.com/floatingpoints/floating-points-four-t... Tsunami is another good system in the US, unsure if they've been doing stuff since quarantine closed everything up. Analog in Brooklyn had a pretty wild SBS Slammer setup, but an ownership snafu caused that go away after only a couple years. Nowadays' indoors setup is the best in NYC for me – Randomer blows the lid off once or twice a year. This was him in 2019: https://imgur.com/a/ACocI87 https://imgur.com/a/ACocI87
- Melting_Harps 4y ago
  > I enjoy seeing some heads on HN :) Hello from NYC! Had dreams of going to Plastic, RIP Easy! I think we all did back then, we were the outsiders looking in and that was Mecca; I started listening in 2006 when Youngsta's Dubstep All Stars came out so to us it was pretty rare thing that few out of LND had ever heard of, but we eventually had nights in CA. It was mainly brostep noise, with the occasional UK talent if you were willing to drive on a weekday to LA and drop lots of money, which I didn't have at all back then. But I saw Distance back in 2009 at the Roxy on a weekday and went to work and slept in the parking lot for a few hours after the rave just to see him, but I finally got to hear his remix of Changes and then Beyond on a decent rig and just went into some eyes down thing, and which made it all worth it. So, when that wasn't possible I stuck to pissing off my neighbors with my paltry bedroom DJ antics on vinyl I had shipped from Redeye every 2 months from London and listening to RinseFM to fill the void. NYC? Isn't Joe Nice still doing/running things out there? I know the Dub Warz nights were the US' version of DMZ for a while, and was sort of a soundclash [1] theme to it, right? I saw some footage of Kahn at one and the dubplates he was pulling out during his set were insane. I've been out of the scene for a while now, last event was before COVID (late 2018 or early 2019) where I was convincing Youngsta to get SP:MC to Denver since Nicole repped'd so much talent and SP;MC is badman (MC/DJ/Producer), which he did later in the year but I couldn't make it out. I still can't believe Toast bigged me up at a rave ahead of Leon Switch's set when I told him I was part of the original Thursday night 'brandy and bass' crew as he was walking up to the stage and I was talking to Leon, which for those of who listened from the US back then seemed impossible but they were just normal lads happy to see people came. I asked him if he could drop The Fifth VIP, and when it dropped I ran up to the booth from the dance floor trigger fingers in the air and we both had smiles ear to ear (reminding me of this [0]). Apparently he started including that track in his sets from then on. Good times! I'll send you pic of my signed copy Surge/Cold Blooded when I get back to the US. I got it when I met Youngsta a few years after it got pressed. I used to hang it on my wall above my decks, you're probably the only one HN that would even know who that is let alone appreciate the golden era we were going through back then--talent from DnB and Dubstep were crossing over so much back then and that was the when the genre felt so free and open to explore what it wanted to be. Leaving you with this one, as I just fired up the sub and will be signing out with this [2] tonight with a spliff. 0: https://youtu.be/-HvqRzshkrg https://youtu.be/-HvqRzshkrg 1: https://youtu.be/ElXYoyfL-RM https://youtu.be/ElXYoyfL-RM 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX378lVkfIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX378lVkfIU
timc3 4y ago
Plastic People (Oxford Street or Shoreditch) was indeed an amazing experience. I went a lot. But its soundsystem was not quite on the same level as Fabric’s or The Ends - those two both seemed to have the sound system more integrated with the rooms design with huge reserves of power so everything was crystal clear and no ringing ears afterwards. PP did have a better sound system than 99% of clubs I have been to around the world though - it was no slouch.
- brigandish 4y ago
  The End's sound system is the best I've ever experienced, I'd love to know how they set it up.
konfusinomicon 4y ago
big ups to the bass heads of HN!

lelandfe 4y ago

I enjoy seeing some heads on HN :) Hello from NYC! Had dreams of going to Plastic, RIP: https://soundcloud.com/floatingpoints/floating-points-four-tet-final-plastic-people-2-1-2015 https://soundcloud.com/floatingpoints/floating-points-four-t... Tsunami is another good system in the US, unsure if they've been doing stuff since quarantine closed everything up. Analog in Brooklyn had a pretty wild SBS Slammer setup, but an ownership snafu caused that go away after only a couple years. Nowadays' indoors setup is the best in NYC for me – Randomer blows the lid off once or twice a year. This was him in 2019: https://imgur.com/a/ACocI87 https://imgur.com/a/ACocI87

Melting_Harps 4y ago
> I enjoy seeing some heads on HN :) Hello from NYC! Had dreams of going to Plastic, RIP Easy! I think we all did back then, we were the outsiders looking in and that was Mecca; I started listening in 2006 when Youngsta's Dubstep All Stars came out so to us it was pretty rare thing that few out of LND had ever heard of, but we eventually had nights in CA. It was mainly brostep noise, with the occasional UK talent if you were willing to drive on a weekday to LA and drop lots of money, which I didn't have at all back then. But I saw Distance back in 2009 at the Roxy on a weekday and went to work and slept in the parking lot for a few hours after the rave just to see him, but I finally got to hear his remix of Changes and then Beyond on a decent rig and just went into some eyes down thing, and which made it all worth it. So, when that wasn't possible I stuck to pissing off my neighbors with my paltry bedroom DJ antics on vinyl I had shipped from Redeye every 2 months from London and listening to RinseFM to fill the void. NYC? Isn't Joe Nice still doing/running things out there? I know the Dub Warz nights were the US' version of DMZ for a while, and was sort of a soundclash [1] theme to it, right? I saw some footage of Kahn at one and the dubplates he was pulling out during his set were insane. I've been out of the scene for a while now, last event was before COVID (late 2018 or early 2019) where I was convincing Youngsta to get SP:MC to Denver since Nicole repped'd so much talent and SP;MC is badman (MC/DJ/Producer), which he did later in the year but I couldn't make it out. I still can't believe Toast bigged me up at a rave ahead of Leon Switch's set when I told him I was part of the original Thursday night 'brandy and bass' crew as he was walking up to the stage and I was talking to Leon, which for those of who listened from the US back then seemed impossible but they were just normal lads happy to see people came. I asked him if he could drop The Fifth VIP, and when it dropped I ran up to the booth from the dance floor trigger fingers in the air and we both had smiles ear to ear (reminding me of this [0]). Apparently he started including that track in his sets from then on. Good times! I'll send you pic of my signed copy Surge/Cold Blooded when I get back to the US. I got it when I met Youngsta a few years after it got pressed. I used to hang it on my wall above my decks, you're probably the only one HN that would even know who that is let alone appreciate the golden era we were going through back then--talent from DnB and Dubstep were crossing over so much back then and that was the when the genre felt so free and open to explore what it wanted to be. Leaving you with this one, as I just fired up the sub and will be signing out with this [2] tonight with a spliff. 0: https://youtu.be/-HvqRzshkrg https://youtu.be/-HvqRzshkrg 1: https://youtu.be/ElXYoyfL-RM https://youtu.be/ElXYoyfL-RM 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX378lVkfIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX378lVkfIU

timc3 4y ago

Plastic People (Oxford Street or Shoreditch) was indeed an amazing experience. I went a lot. But its soundsystem was not quite on the same level as Fabric’s or The Ends - those two both seemed to have the sound system more integrated with the rooms design with huge reserves of power so everything was crystal clear and no ringing ears afterwards. PP did have a better sound system than 99% of clubs I have been to around the world though - it was no slouch.

brigandish 4y ago
The End's sound system is the best I've ever experienced, I'd love to know how they set it up.

konfusinomicon 4y ago

big ups to the bass heads of HN!