This is mostly a rant because I already know the answer to all my questions I guess I just wanna feel validated lol.

I’m a semi new dubstep/riddim DJ, been DJing for like 1.5-2 years at this point. I want to say im pretty good, I post clips on social and they do pretty well. People are moving when I do get to play for other people. I’m kinda stuck right now though. I live in probably one of the worst areas for dubstep, so I often travel 2-5 hours away for shows from my favorite artists. I’ve met and become friends with a lot of the locals in that area, and even some of the small promotional groups that have their own collective. I’ve tried and tried and tried to get my name on these lineups, I’ve asked my homies that are semi-big name locals to put in a word for me, I’ve asked the homies that run the smaller collectives, and it all comes down to the same thing: How many tickets can you sell. And the harsh truth that im honest and straightforward with them is, not many. I’m not in a position where people from my hometown are going to come 2-5 hours away to see me play, and im not in a position where I’m enough of a regular 2-5 hours away to have friends there that would could see me, and so I can’t get booked. The one show that I did get booked for that wasn’t also running, was 4.5 hours away on a Wednesday when I had a 9:30 am class, and I still went, played for 15-20 people, and it was awesome and I would do it over and over again if that’s what it takes. The organizer said he liked what I played and he would be in contact again to book me, alot of people complimented me afterwards (I know that’s kinda the standard and even if you play like shit people will still compliment you, but usually that’s just friends and these were just strangers so idk lol). Well that was in November of last year and I haven’t played since. And it’s frustrating. I have absolutely no ill-will to anyway involved, and im not trying to blame anyone else because honestly it’s just the nature of my situation and isnt really anyone’s “fault”, im just frustrated. I don’t even really want to get paid, I just want to be able to play stuff for people that enjoy the same genre of music as me, because growing up where I live, literally have just gotten teased and laughed at for the stuff I like, probably like a lot of you. I’ve started slowly attempting to build a scene in my area, but the best I can get away with playing and still have returning customers is bass house. We’ve played dubstep a few times and it’s gone over well maybe once. It’s just frustrating. Sorry for the rant, hopefully some other small-local DJs feel my pain lol. If anyone has any suggestions im really all ears.

From SF Day 2

https://youtu.be/rHW93As_uio?t=3546&si=4FmcCQ67VZdIz50R

on YouTube there was a video of a dubstep song in which a coffin was being carried throughout the video, I thought it was a Mondeo - sunlight for a while but it's not. It seems to me that it had a happy ending and someone came out of the coffin alive or I could be wrong

I especially love modern shit with call backs to iconic songs.

So. I'm probably DKKAY biggest glazer. CRACK! being not only my favorite tearout song but of all of dubstep. The thing is i've noticed that he didn't upload something since 1 year and is no longer active on his Twitter so i did my research but unsuccesful so...

Does anybody know what happend to him?

Does anyone know if this set was recorded or live streamed anywhere??
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CxeXVagbN8g
I really need to see Automhate live.. I didn't know he came with that energy .. a WTF moment for me haahah XD

Hi everyone i discoverd dubstep recently and looking for songs with same vibe as Overkill, from RIOT. Can anyone advise me ? Thanks and sorry if my english is not perfect !

Hot take?

Can anyone direct me to some UK producers that are up and coming? Like, 1k followers on SoundCloud up and coming. I'm really curious what the local scene over there is up to!

Got into dubstep last year looking for some more artists to get into. LOVE Tape B and his car tunes sets and have seen him twice in last year. Have been told to check Levity, Gorilla T and Griz. Like them so far and went to Cyclopes dome and had a blast. On flip side went to a Wooli concert and hated my life. Any more recommendations for people in like this trap dubstep genre? (sorry not sure what it’s called)

Check out this crazy lineup for Valentine's Day in Westland!

I was listening to SVDDEN DEATH recently and I have been wondering if his tracks fall under vomitstep/frogbass category, I was listening to snails music and his sound design sounds a lot like SVDDEN DEATHs, I mean snails even collabed with SVDDEN DEATH once so it might just be me, but does SVDDEN DEATH produce Vomitstep?