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This is something I've never really been good at, and i think it's something people who are new to the scene have trouble with (correct me if i'm wrong)

So how do you keep yourself up to date with the latest happenings?

Do you have certain blogs/sites you check regularly?
Do you check Vinyl/Mp3 sites for the latest releases?
etc

check Dsf maybe?

I find myself not givin a shit what the charts or anything else say... 99% of what I listen too are people I tal too and know from around the web, so I always know what they have going on, what thier labels are doing, and + ... I get 230s like mad...

But, I make sure (really, cuz I dj n have too stay up on it)... that I browse myspace for an hour or so daily just lstenin to wierd unheard acts n shit, n I keep up with a few blogs here n there, constant listenin in the Dub sections, browsing the Dubstep board, ect...

Its electronic music, its hard as fuck too get into and easy as hell to stay current with.

Music wise:
Listen to new and innovative producers. Typically one or two every four or so months come out that use a new technique that eventually becomes the standard. I guess

Scene wise:
Go out, meet people that are making moves.

I hear what your saying about charts
All the "Top 10" and shit on beatport and juno etc tend to be the 10 tracks i least want to download

Mixes

the computer

subfm mixes & DSF

DZA wrote:Mixes

nice one

This forum
Youtube
Mixes

check chemical records every now and again for new releases

get pretty much every rinse fm podcast thats grime or dubstep and a couple of uk funky ones to hear what dubs are goin around that'll never get released

subscribe to decent Youtube Dubstep channels

I don't keep up with the 'scene', and could barely give a flying as to who's who and when dun wot etc. (<--- great grammar )

Names of artists, labels and tunes escape me, and it's only those I end up having direct conversations with that stick in my mind.

I'm also a bit cack on dubstep history. I think I read the dubstep wiki once?

Good times!

But my source of new tunes is almost always DSF/soundcloud/myspace links or the youtube 'related vids' section.

Zeno and Thark kindly sent me loads of their tunes last year, so that kept me going for a while!

Big up Zeno and Thark!

step correct wrote:Music wise:
Listen to new and innovative producers. Typically one or two every four or so months come out that use a new technique that eventually becomes the standard. I guess

Scene wise:
Go out, meet people that are making moves.

I agree. Every couple of months a new sound starts to evolve... Dubstep is rad because it could sound like this one week, and in a different direction the next.

To stay in the loop i check DSF, mosey on blogs, myspace artists, soundcloud surfin. And a big one is going to dubstep parties, whatever the headliner is playin in most cases is the current ish... Jump on it!!!

9feetofsmoke wrote:

step correct wrote:Music wise:
Listen to new and innovative producers. Typically one or two every four or so months come out that use a new technique that eventually becomes the standard. I guess

Scene wise:
Go out, meet people that are making moves.

I agree. Every couple of months a new sound starts to evolve... Dubstep is rad because it could sound like this one week, and in a different direction the next.

To stay in the loop i check DSF, mosey on blogs, myspace artists, soundcloud surfin. And a big one is going to dubstep parties, whatever the headliner is playin in most cases is the current ish... Jump on it!!!

I really don't get to enough nights...

Bandshell

get out there and try and chat to the selectors, here obvs, youtube, soundcloud, generally keeping up with the media, podcasts etc. never find myself being that current though still.

i don't
just go tune shopping and snag mixes time to time
that and sub fm

1.DSF
2. Popular Blogs
3. TUNE SHOPPIN