hard techno - London record shops?

[LiquidEyes]

In a nutshell: I'm looking for fairly hard techno.

 

I buy a mixture of house / tech-house / techno. However I've recently got into a slightly harder end of techno, and I am trying to find some good record shops in London that sell the kind of stuff I'm after.

 

This is the point where I try to explain the style of music I'm looking for without knowing any actual examples of it!!!

 

What I am looking for:

* 135-140 bpm

* dark/raw/energetic

* sort of like a techno / hard house crossover

* the slightly more minimal/underground/tough/intense sound of techno (Sven Vath etc) but with more of the "punch" and drive of hard house

* If you've been to Slinky in Bournemouth, think of the kind of hard stuff the residents play.

* Think of some of Nick Sentience's more technoey productions.

* I also like the pacier end of progressive, nothing too plodding and dull though!

 

Examples:

The best examples I can think of from my own collection are:

* Nick Sentience - "Digital Dialogue" (Nukleuz)

* Pounding Grooves 28

* Pornographic 005

* Drumcode 23

* some Eukatech stuff

* some of Brian Zentz's and Rino Cerrone's harder productions

...although I do realise some of these probably aren't very well known!!

 

What I am NOT looking for!

* hoovers / silly vocal samples

* that dull, samey, unimaginitive hardhouse offbeat-bassline

* cheesy trance breakdowns

* anything excessively fast (>145bpm) or nosebleed/industrial techno

* anything that sounds like nearly every Tidy Trax / Nukleuz record in existence!

 

Can anyone recommend some good record shops or labels who do this kind of stuff?

Cheers

[LittleMissLoud]

have u tried bangin tunes, in little portland street? they sell stuff like that!

[LiquidEyes]

I haven't but I will! Cheers

[supermash]

u could try choci's chewns in soho (st anne's court) they have pretty much everything from prog to hh, or the eukatech shop - in covent garden somewhere tho not sure where....