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