Whats your BPM?

[Antinoise]

There is a dramatic difference between 135bpm techno and 145. What speed do you make your dance floor techno?

[spiralx]

145 usually, sometimes 142.

[romelpotter]

I can't vote coz i don't use just one tempo, some time 140 sometimes less but mostly i use 145 to 155 for my techno stompers ;)

[SlavikSvensk]

133 or 135...gives the dj more control over how they want to play it.

[waldhaus]

my tracks are mostyly on 147 - 150 bpm, sets at 155 - 160

[spiralx]

133 or 135...gives the dj more control over how they want to play it.
But at 135 you're limited to playing it at no more than 146 on Technics, while you can drop it down to 124. So you've pretty much excluded it from any faster sets. Whereas at 142 you can play it anywhere from 130 to 153 which pretty much covers most speeds DJs play sets at...

[romelpotter]

133 or 135...gives the dj more control over how they want to play it.
But at 135 you're limited to playing it at no more than 146 on Technics, while you can drop it down to 124. So you've pretty much excluded it from any faster sets. Whereas at 142 you can play it anywhere from 130 to 153 which pretty much covers most speeds DJs play sets at...

hmmm i have never thaught of it like that. nice one I shall coinsider this next time I do a track :lol: :clap: :clap: ;)

[SlavikSvensk]

133 or 135...gives the dj more control over how they want to play it.
But at 135 you're limited to playing it at no more than 146 on Technics, while you can drop it down to 124. So you've pretty much excluded it from any faster sets. Whereas at 142 you can play it anywhere from 130 to 153 which pretty much covers most speeds DJs play sets at...

well, i'm man enough to admit that's an excellent point. i guess it's a matter of personal choice. for me, i like the ability 124 gives you to mix a fairly hard techno track with other styles, like minimal techno or house, whereas that same track can be mixed effectively with other hard techno at either 142 or 153. plus i'm one of those dinasaurs who still likes to spin his old detroit and chicago records, which sometimes seem to barely hit 130 when up at +8 ;)

[dan the acid man]

145 or more for me, its usually 148 to 150

[DJZeMig_L]

140 is my game, but i can do stuff at 136 or 138 ... 98% of times it's straight 140!

Faster I don't have enought "space"/ time for anything other then short sounds! :P

Z

[FILTERZ]

dont matter what
speed you make it , djs gonna pitch it up ,never seen one pitch stuff down
or turn stuff down, there all louder, faster, buggers :love:

[slavestudios]

147 is the hard stuff. 137 for the deeper groove loops & 127 for the super minimil

[slavestudios]

the worst thing about lock grooves. your stuck at about 144-145 :cry:

pity. theyre great for 3 dex & fx sets with a groovebox for extra ammo

[The Divide]

133 or 135...gives the dj more control over how they want to play it.
But at 135 you're limited to playing it at no more than 146 on Technics, while you can drop it down to 124. So you've pretty much excluded it from any faster sets. Whereas at 142 you can play it anywhere from 130 to 153 which pretty much covers most speeds DJs play sets at...

hmmm i have never thaught of it like that. nice one I shall coinsider this next time I do a track :lol: :clap: :clap: ;)

I didnt know that too. Sorted man

I always do my tracks at 138

[Komplex]

dont matter what
speed you make it , djs gonna pitch it up ,never seen one pitch stuff down
or turn stuff down, there all louder, faster, buggers :love:

Herbert always seems to pitch down, and it sounds much better than pitched up :)


A few years back we had a stream of dj's here in Melbourne stupidly pitching ALL their tracks up too fast and totally killing them. There were even shenanigans where the deck's speed range would be altered, constantly making ALL records faster.


As for me, I write techno between 130 and 140 depending on the track and feel.

[Metadog]

i write from about 145 - 150, play out approx 150 - 155

[Jimfish]

i have to say i like things slow and chunky - everybody plays fast, its shite. i really like it when a dj can come on, slow the whole thing right down and still build up the atmosphere and get the dancefloor moving twice as hard - not a common occurance though unfortunatly, people seem to thing the best way to build energy is to increase the speed - this is not necisarily true!

[The Divide]

I'me hearing ya Jim, plus its much easier to dance to for us old fogies

[DJZeMig_L]

As a dj I've always organized my bags from a BPM starting point... so it goes from anywhere around 128-130 'till 160 give or take a few bpms...

I start from the slowest and move upwards & onwards... moving the crowd in waves (when I get' em moving that is :P ) of hard, funky, minimal, etc... I find that if I play 2 hard evry1 gets tired and looks down, I prefer the smile so when it gets 2 much I slowly shift 2 the chicagoish getho thing, then bring back the pounding stuff later, etc... finish around 160...

My 2 cents,

Z

[The Divide]

I find that if your working at high tempo you need slower sounding rhythms within it. Like when I used to be into GABBER half the time I wasnt dancing to the speed of the kicks but the other sounds such as claps and snares (I hope that doesnt sound too silly to the GABBER heads) at the end of the day it doesnt have to be fast to sound fast and vice the versa.

[The Overfiend]

140 is my starting point.
Most of the time I'll slow it down from there if there's any strong conga elements.
Drums are a nice touch at that speed because the sound resonates nicely.
But 145 territory is for the loopish, faster, sometimes that less mature sound.

[FILTERZ]

i am getting old and my music is getting slower along with everything else
, if its to loud or to fast your to old........... metal heads go through the same thing .............. LOVED Napalm Death as a youngster now its all rock ballads and muse , i just aint got the energy for gabba , but thats not to say faster is inferior just ,younger.

[DJZeMig_L]

Speed Isn't necessarity 100% related 2 bpm... It's much more about the intensity of percussion elements in a track, u can have something with 136 that sound fast...

Z

[scienceofuse]

I didn't know that people play techno at 150+, I thought it was just a few extreme hard techno DJs! I've become bored of overpitched sets by DJs, who want to bulldoze the club using any means necessary, even if it means playing at ridiculously high tempos (as if that contributed to the "hardness" of the music).
Personally, I think that the tempo doesn't really matter. I produce tracks with tempos from, say, 132 BPM to 145 BPM, tech-wise (not otherwise), but I usually set the tempo only after I've made the basic loop. Sometimes I even make a percussive loop at a lower BPM (70-120), then push up the tempo and go on from there - so I couldn't say what "my BPM" is... Although when spinning, I admit that I prefer a tempo somewhere from 137-143 BPM, simply because that's the tempo I'm most comfortable with while playing... So maybe I have "my BPM" after all, hehe...

[BloodStar]

in between 140 and 143 is my playground....

[mr acid]

I really don't think the bpm level defines the kind of techno u playing...

example: U can have a slow saturated techno and u can have an happy fast contagious funky tune...


I shoot to the typical 136-138