prisoner wrote:fractal wrote:kani wrote:I had Joe Nice play for Minneapolis last night, and a very informed someteen year old sage informed us that our and Joe's sets were not in fact dubstep.
Vaski and Excision are dubstep, he informed us, and we were all being duped or by his implications, propagating a fraudulent version.
yep.
classic tale these days, ain't it? it's laffs really, i just tell people "Ok"
it's actually really, really sad though.
we didn't even break 75 people
excision plays here this weekend and has about 1000 ppl "attending" on facebook.
The same thing happened here in San Diego two weekends ago. Datsik was in town playing at the House of Blues. There were a little over 800 attendees there.
DJG was on the same night and attendees were 110 at the most. A couple of hours before the party started, we found out that he had ear infection, so it got cut into half right away (from what it looked like when I got there). Still, the party continued with a suggested donation of $3-$5 dollars. Funny thing was, at 12:30, Datsik shows up at the party, wanted to go on the deck, and after a good talk with Sublml (who put the party together), he played 95% dubstep (read: SUBBASS, only a couple of chainsaw) for 40 minutes or so. Honestly, he gained a couple of respect points from me. I still can't tolerate his shit, but he's a pretty cool lad.
And to summarize the scene here in SD. It's a lot smaller than LA. New promoters do not even try to communicate with the guys who have been throwing down since day one. It's all about money-making. Dubstep shows bimonthly at a hipster bar drenched with hipsters and college kids, grinding each other worse than to an R&B song, and/or moshing, which I try to avoid. A couple of good shows at least once a month that a lot of regulars go to, which I am always present. Such a hassle to live across the pond in the southwestern end. It's all a waiting game if you want the good shit, but we do well with our DJs too.
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