What to do if your town has no scene?

jolly wailer · Post by **jolly wailer** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:00 am

link up with that dude from New Paltz

Dj Rodan I think his name is, he posts on dsf

also link with the existing jungle/rave kids that do the syracuse > rochester > buffalo circuit..

but you're more downstate upstate yeah?

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:12 am

heh roc and blo has most producers with no scene

jolly wailer · Post by **jolly wailer** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:21 am

Deadly Habit wrote:heh roc and blo has most producers with no scene

the Lo has a tight lil group of party goers tho this past summer has been immense - lots of green lasers and tomfoolery from this crew

all about the camp out raves

evil madmen · Post by **evil madmen** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:07 am

Im in a similar position, I just played a few nights at my friends apartment and people dug it.

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:05 pm

Jolly Wailer wrote:
Deadly Habit wrote:heh roc and blo has most producers with no scene

the Lo has a tight lil group of party goers tho this past summer has been immense - lots of green lasers and tomfoolery from this crew

all about the camp out raves

yea i miss the old jungle bums days

dignan · Post by **dignan** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:13 pm

Jolly Wailer wrote:link up with that dude from New Paltz

Dj Rodan I think his name is, he posts on dsf

also link with the existing jungle/rave kids that do the syracuse > rochester > buffalo circuit..

but you're more downstate upstate yeah?

I'm not even downstate man, you know that island that sticks out at the bottom of new york state? I'm alllllll the way out on the end of it, the eastern most point of the state basically....

phrex · Post by **phrex** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:26 pm

TRAVEL around!

you will meet new people, new DJs, new systems....

...well, and girls

scooterjack · Post by **scooterjack** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 5:21 pm

Dignan wrote: I'm not even downstate man, you know that island that sticks out at the bottom of new york state? I'm alllllll the way out on the end of it, the eastern most point of the state basically....

so you're on Long Island..... just hop on the LIRR to get to NYC. It's what, 20-25$ round trip? It only cost me 8$ on peak to get from around port jeff. to Manhattan. Shouldn't be much, if any, more than that for you, even if you're out in the Hamptons....

nitz · Post by **nitz** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 5:33 pm

Dignan wrote:
Nitz wrote:
Dignan wrote:
Nitz wrote:
Dignan wrote: I'm definitely the first type man. my friends give me support and encouragement when it comes to my music, but they don't necessarily like dubstep. It's theonly music I play when I'm with other people, it's what I talk about with other people. I went to the Hudson Mohawke gig last saturday in NYC, and next saturday I'm going in to see Skream play, it's kinda hard to travel into the city from where I live, there's about 3 trains a day to and from, and they're always at the worst hours. and roundtrip bus fair is $60, roughly 100 pounds. I'm also moving outta my town come next June. and I'm either moving to NYC or some pleace in Europe...
yeh i here you there man am guessing you find it really hard at times, however as you said your friends a are quite good when its comes to support right but you said not when its come it dubstep right, well what kind of music have you played to them? am guessing it the hype crazy nasty twisted stuff? well many people might not like that, its too much for them. You kind of need to be open minded to listen to it. Why don't you show them some of the ambient chilled dubs? they are normally better when showing to people who have not heard the type of music before. it could be a relaxed night out, in stead of the crazy hype night event.
the chilled out dubstep is my favorite man, and it's waht I always play. I'm not a big fan of Rusko and producers like that. I usually play Burial, 2562, Headhunter, iTal tEk, shit like that. Some of the tunes my friends dig, but most of the time they don't like it. When I DJ this art show on plan on playing the artists I just mentioned along with some good, instrumental hip hop like FlyLo, Afta-1, J Dilla. that stuff my friends do like.
oo great great, i see sound like there is some love around, you should try a very small night in your town with some chilled dubstep and see how it goes you dont have not too much to lose, all you need some people to come ! or make it a free night you have to give to a go..
no harm in giving it a shoot you see what i mean?
I hear ya man, I'm not expecting to get paid or anything like that if I get a night, because it would be my first gig and all. and I think I could get a decent amount of people to show up too, it's just up to the organizations to give me a night.

oo great man sounds good, do you have facebook or myspace? make a little group and put all the info and there and give it a little push but dont go mad and force everyone to come lol

. but a little bit of persuasion never kills no one too

if you have to pay for the venue.. just give it a shot mate and see what the outcome will be..

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:02 pm

start it

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:37 pm

Jolly Wailer wrote:
Deadly Habit wrote:heh roc and blo has most producers with no scene

the Lo has a tight lil group of party goers tho this past summer has been immense - lots of green lasers and tomfoolery from this crew

all about the camp out raves

no joke, the weekend off festival was a blast.

@Dignan-- i was actually just out playing a private gig in the Hamptons yesterday, and Overcast Radio is out there quite often as well-- almost a reverse-migration thing. Sub Swara's played a festival in Southampton before as well, in 2007.

There's a huge arts scene in the Hamptons/Montauk/etc. It's very overground, yes, but there's always a space for someone creative... you just have to create that space, create that need. Look up DJ Spooky and check out what he does; nothing particularly groundbreaking but he's fantastic at getting the overground interested in (and, tbh, FUNDING) the underground.

so you've got 2 paths, basically. Start throwing nights and promote like a motherfucker, for sure-- no one asked Mala et all to start DMZ or sarah to start FWD, they did it because they had to or else they would have gone crazy. There's plenty of stories about FWD having 6 people at a gig in the early years.. now granted those 6 were kode, skream, benga, etc, but still-- there was NO SCENE. you build it.

OR you find a way to integrate yourself into the gallery scene out there. Local boy does good and breathes life into the Citarella-chomping Hamptons masses... stranger things have occurred!

OR-- there's a huge market for dance music out there. nothing ground breaking by any means, but that doens't mean you can't wedge your way in.

You just gotta fight for it!

dignan · Post by **dignan** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:19 pm

TeReKeTe wrote:
Jolly Wailer wrote:
Deadly Habit wrote:heh roc and blo has most producers with no scene

the Lo has a tight lil group of party goers tho this past summer has been immense - lots of green lasers and tomfoolery from this crew

all about the camp out raves
no joke, the weekend off festival was a blast.

@Dignan-- i was actually just out playing a private gig in the Hamptons yesterday, and Overcast Radio is out there quite often as well-- almost a reverse-migration thing. Sub Swara's played a festival in Southampton before as well, in 2007.

There's a huge arts scene in the Hamptons/Montauk/etc. It's very overground, yes, but there's always a space for someone creative... you just have to create that space, create that need. Look up DJ Spooky and check out what he does; nothing particularly groundbreaking but he's fantastic at getting the overground interested in (and, tbh, FUNDING) the underground.

so you've got 2 paths, basically. Start throwing nights and promote like a motherfucker, for sure-- no one asked Mala et all to start DMZ or sarah to start FWD, they did it because they had to or else they would have gone crazy. There's plenty of stories about FWD having 6 people at a gig in the early years.. now granted those 6 were kode, skream, benga, etc, but still-- there was NO SCENE. you build it.

OR you find a way to integrate yourself into the gallery scene out there. Local boy does good and breathes life into the Citarella-chomping Hamptons masses... stranger things have occurred!

OR-- there's a huge market for dance music out there. nothing ground breaking by any means, but that doens't mean you can't wedge your way in.

You just gotta fight for it!

damn man, you hit the nail on the head there. have you heard of the art collective A4BT? one of my best friends helped to found it and that's who I'm DJing the art show for in Novemeber, but I'm definitely gonna hit up some places before then to start spreading the word on dubstep.

86. · Post by **86.** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:24 pm

ninjadog wrote:
86 Position wrote:
Dignan wrote:I live in a small, shitty town that has NO music scene whatsoever. the only live music you get around here is blues and reggae (boring). i've been practicing my DJing and mixing with Traktor and once I feel comfortable enough I'm going to hit all the local bars/clubs and see if I can get a night. But I'm afraid that they're all gonna say no because they've never heard of dubstep, drum 'n' bass, etc. I do have one confirmed gig in November at my friends art show. it's in a pretty big space, probably gonna have 150+ people. any suggestions on what I could do to spark a dubstep scene around my lame town?
in the same boat as you.

thing is, the very fact that what you'd be playing is largely unknown to these people, might be exactly what would make that night successful.

either that or they stay close-minded and refuse to listen.

there's only 2 things that can happen....so if they take to dubstep, then it's a bonus...but if they don't, they were never really expected to like it anyway, sort of thing.
I am also in the same boat. What town you from 86?

I have also thought about putting on a dubstep night here in Powell River, but I am lacking in vinyl, and only have one deck which has a broken pitch slider, and feel my tunes are not ready to represent dubstep. I know excuses excuses, but I dont want to put on a half assed show. And to be honest I'm a little intimidated putting on a dub night in a town of rednecks.

I have a buddy in a slightly larger town than me (Comox) and they now have a sweet little close knit scene. Started with one dude who put on a show and all the Dj's soon came out of the woodwork.

I'm from Ottawa, but for the past 4 years or so been out in Sackville New Brunswick...and was overseas for awhile. I've been back for one-two week periods here and there, but I have no clue whats going on in Ottawa. I do hear there's mad producers and a few nights.

this town I'm in has like 5000 ppl...basically, I have Ableton and no laptop. But there's a student bar where they got CDJs...I never really spun before but I'm so sick of cheese hip-hop or indie-rockish nights that I figure instead of complaining, something could be started. It wouldnt be just dubstep, but I'm a one man show as far as musical tastes. 85% of what I listen, nobody else does/can't get into it.

I feel that if something started up, it may just be different enough that ppl will take to it./

jsilver · Post by **jsilver** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:35 pm

this town has no scene, Craig, CO

very few people have heard of dubstep here, i can count on one hand

i just sit inside and produce when im not at school

i like to think that they would be very welcoming of headquartering something cool here, because theres not much

but like its been said, DIY.. i dont want to play dubstep in a cowboy bar, id much rather it be a rave-like setting

k_k · Post by **k_k** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:32 pm

set up your own scene, find peeps who produce dj around with similar tastes talk, rave, seel records. summat to do innit

overcast radio · Post by **overcast radio** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:38 pm

Late to this thread but it could happen out there...I'm from Hampton Bays originally (via Long Beach) and am out there often as Dave confirmed and I agree just start something...I'll play out there! It's only a matter of time that dubstep/bass music gets into people's heads out there. A good time too b/c (some) venues haven't a clue. There has always always always been a reggae scene out there since the 80's; I've always thought capitalizing on it isn't totally out. Where are you exactly?

HAACK · Post by **HAACK** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:49 pm

Create the scene.

magma · Post by **magma** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:07 am

Get some mates together, put a night on, make a big fuss of it, make sure everyone including yourselves get wrecked... rinse... repeat.... watch people get interested.

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