London’s biggest bass promoters united under one roof for the first time…
It’s 2010 and after years evolving in the deep, dark corners of the capital, the sounds of underground London have risen from the depths and infiltrated clubland like never before.
Now 6 promoters gather and go head-to-head under one roof to make history as they present their respective sounds with a collection of the biggest selectors playing the biggest, baddest beats in town.
Dirty basslines now resonate from sound systems across the big smoke, with the unmistakable sub-low and intensive snares of dubstep paving the way for many a raver, DJ and producer alike. Since the early noughties its beats and blips have reverberated from Croydon, seeping out of South London to garner support from dance communities and DJs on a global scale. With roots that mash early garage and 2-step with reggae and dub, what’s undoubtedly one of the most exciting electronic genres to emerge in recent years is a true amalgamation, yet truly a London sound.
Perhaps a reflection of the unique culture clash of those that have chosen to make camp here London town, the city’s gritty underground musical heritage is a broad one. Dubstep is flanked by hefty heavyweights, all intertwined and all inimitably London through and through.
UK garage lives on, as darker ancestors carry forward its legacy and continue to rule the airwaves on the city’s pirate radio stations, whilst crossing over into the clubs. One such descendent has seen a wave of fire-tongued London MCs take the edgy, fast delivery of early Jungle, melodic flows of Jamaican dancehall and clever witticisms of US hip-hop and combine them over broken 2-step and low basslines to give us grime.
Londinium I lands on Saturday 1st May 2010 in a secret London warehouse location…
London’s lust for four-to-the-floor is ever prevalent. With dubstep and grime come the younger sounds, as a wealth of offshoots intertwine to usher in future garage, UK funky and dub-techno, accompanied by pockets of unnamed offerings to quench the thirst of a bass hungry generation of partygoers, more ready than ever to see things through ‘till the early hours, stomachs rumbling all the way.
In come the nights, brands and promoters delivering the goods throughout the capital, from Brick Lane to Brixton, in clubs and warehouses, on sound systems of epic proportions, to thousands of clubbers, month in, month out. London’s clan of bass pushers are today’s answer to the raves of old.
And now, for the first time…they unite.
In come Londinium.
“It’s a London thing…”
It’s A London Thing 1997 – Scott Garcia Feat. MC Styles And Jo B
Heritage
London’s biggest bass promoters united under one roof for the first time…
It’s 2010 and after years evolving in the deep, dark corners of the capital, the sounds of underground London have risen from the depths and infiltrated clubland like never before.
Now 6 promoters gather and go head-to-head under one roof to make history as they present their respective sounds with a collection of the biggest selectors playing the biggest, baddest beats in town.
Dirty basslines now resonate from sound systems across the big smoke, with the unmistakable sub-low and intensive snares of dubstep paving the way for many a raver, DJ and producer alike. Since the early noughties its beats and blips have reverberated from Croydon, seeping out of South London to garner support from dance communities and DJs on a global scale. With roots that mash early garage and 2-step with reggae and dub, what’s undoubtedly one of the most exciting electronic genres to emerge in recent years is a true amalgamation, yet truly a London sound.
Perhaps a reflection of the unique culture clash of those that have chosen to make camp here London town, the city’s gritty underground musical heritage is a broad one. Dubstep is flanked by hefty heavyweights, all intertwined and all inimitably London through and through.
UK garage lives on, as darker ancestors carry forward its legacy and continue to rule the airwaves on the city’s pirate radio stations, whilst crossing over into the clubs. One such descendent has seen a wave of fire-tongued London MCs take the edgy, fast delivery of early Jungle, melodic flows of Jamaican dancehall and clever witticisms of US hip-hop and combine them over broken 2-step and low basslines to give us grime.
Londinium I lands on Saturday 1st May 2010 in a secret London warehouse location…
London’s lust for four-to-the-floor is ever prevalent. With dubstep and grime come the younger sounds, as a wealth of offshoots intertwine to usher in future garage, UK funky and dub-techno, accompanied by pockets of unnamed offerings to quench the thirst of a bass hungry generation of partygoers, more ready than ever to see things through ‘till the early hours, stomachs rumbling all the way.
In come the nights, brands and promoters delivering the goods throughout the capital, from Brick Lane to Brixton, in clubs and warehouses, on sound systems of epic proportions, to thousands of clubbers, month in, month out. London’s clan of bass pushers are today’s answer to the raves of old.
And now, for the first time…they unite.
In come Londinium.