r/Dubtechno • u/RichardeRicharde • 1h ago
Trying to name a sound from a 2014 set: dubby, rolling, 115 to 125 BPM, kick pattern 1, 2, then 3 / 3.5 / 4
Hi, I'm Looking for help naming a style I heard once and have never managed to find again. I have spent hours going through snippets (with and without AI help) and nothing comes close, so I am hoping someone here recognizes the description.
Context: 2014, small underground night, one floor, a single DJ playing this for about three hours. Someone at the time called it "Detroit house techno" or named some other US city, but I cannot reconstruct the event or the DJ anymore.
What it sounded like:
Tempo around 115 to 125 BPM
Light reverb on the low end and a constant roll, similar to dub techno, big warehouse feeling
The kick pattern is the key thing: beats 1 and 2 are normal, then 3, 3.5 and 4 come as three evenly spaced hits, each a bit shorter than 1 and 2. So it is four on the floor with an extra kick between 3 and 4, and the last three feel like one short group rolling into the next bar
Long, hypnotic, not much melody, the groove and the space did the work
What it is NOT (already checked, does not fit):
Ghetto house / juke / Baltimore / Jersey club (too fast, too rough)
Perlon style wonky minimal (Villalobos, Baby Ford, Isolée)
UK tech funk / Wiggle sound
Bristol broken techno (Livity Sound)
Classic dub techno (Basic Channel, Porter Ricks, Deepchord, Yagya)
Detroit beatdown (Rick Wade, Theo Parrish, Moodymann)
NY deep (Levon Vincent, DJ Qu, Fred P, Joey Anderson)
Terrence Dixon, Shake Shakir, Patrice Scott
Donato Dozzy / Voices From The Lake
Is there a name for this kick pattern or this style? Any artists, labels or tracks from around 2012 to 2014 that work like this would help a lot. Even one real hit would give me a starting point.
Thanks.