Different bpm..

[tone-def]

try some dubstep!

Most of that is hip hop tempo and i think he wants some 4/4 kicks.

[tone-def]

What about Jeff Mills? It's not all open hi-hats and ride cymbals. I would also recommend some electro stuff like Radioactive man and Bass Junkie.

[oblioblioblio]

Most of that is hip hop tempo and i think he wants some 4/4 kicks.

most dubstep is around 140, and quite a lot of it these days uses 4/4 kicks (or slight variants) rather than the garagey half step thing.

I think it's definitely worth investigating.

[532nm]

what about sleeparchive? it may not be 140, but it's really ef'in good.

or pick up a hawtin mix from the 1990's

of play a 'boring' 125 bpm set at 140 lol

[Kleig]

A few tracks/artists that might fit in that description:

Dimitri Andreas - Tiger (James Ruskin Remix)

R-Play - Reduce 2

Ortin Cam - Omerta

Kenny Larkin - Paranoid

[Holva]

hmmm, I was starting to think 125 bpm is too fast.

for those who don't know what I mean, check out Tom Ellis A1-01... pure quality.

[pSsp]

125Bpm- Start of set(getting the cogs turning)
128Bpm- In Equilibirium, the perfect tempo for me at the moment( my
Internal Tempo)
133-5Bpm- for those really dancy end of set tunes (Letting my hair down)

[victorgonzales]

you want 140bpm techno which isn't hard and your complaining about 125bpm minimal been weak? so you want weak music at 140bpm? But you don't like weak

Yeah, that's it exactly

Aren't genre names a bitch... describing music too, I know roughly what I want but don't really know how to describe it. If I could, I'd say "something that sounds like X and Y" but I don't know.. I am chasing something that is driving, and dark, with repeatitive sounds and short loops.. some distortion and crunchy noise samples, bit reduction maybe, but minimalistic with little melodic content, vocals and chords. Something that is not drowning in open hats and crash cymbals either (this seems to dominate the hard techno/schranz that I've heard anyway).

I've been listening to Robert Hood all day, and while some of it is pretty grim and dark and just what I'm after, lots of it is quite 'detroity' and not really my thing, so, I have mixed feelings for that.

Please help out with some recommendations, if you can, and lets avoid the trap of genres and subgenres..

Start making your own. I dont know anyone who makes minimal over 135.