What IS this music?

Oh dear lord, and here was me thinking "my god, the music pumping up from downstairs is sounding worse than usual... where are the supermodels? there's no one in here but tourists, where's my free vodka, dammit?"

From your description, it sounds like the sort of thing they usually play in the Secret Basement of Dance, but I'm not good with genre names, my housemate would know, but I'm avoiding him due to the white russian incident.

have you any idea who was djing? that might help...

Try searching for Bodyrock by Andy C and Shimon on soulseek and see if that's the style you were listening to...

yes, but i read in the Guardian that that's the club to go to if you want to be a trebdy shoreditch geezah.

i initially thought it was breaks but it seemed so much darker... perhaps i'm just out of the loop.