so... what are people's goals here?
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 3:51 pm
wattup y'all... checking in after a bit, and I see a WHOLE lot of new members. clearly the reach of dubstep's changed since i stopped modding 6 months ago.
so i'm curious-- for the older heads here, the folks who've had releases, worked with/for/owned/managed labels-- as we've watched dubstep rise, what are your goals as an artist/musician? I separate the 2 because an artist creates; a musician works.
the opportunity that's out there for folks w/ a solid dubstep background is enORMOUS. Through a partnership w/ a publishing company I write for (again, a musician "works"), we just did a dubstep-y live arrangement for some Jpop singer/rapper. Completely unheard of to me, but she sells out 30,000 person arenas 3/4 of the way around the world... and was looking for something, as it wrote in the brief, "contemporary" and "referencing dubstep."
You couldn't even imagine that back in 2006. oh how times have changed.
so where are folks going? What do peeps want to be accomplishing over the next few?
On my end, the whole world of with-a-capital-D Dubstep has largely moved away from the super-swinging, dystopic dance music foundation that caught my ear in '05; it used to bug me, but i'm thoroughly ok with not being a part of overground dubstep. Playing live is really where it's at in the States, and we are having a blast with that. I'd love to continue writing 140-ish music that i love, but i doubt anyone under the age of 21 would call it "dubstep," and that's where the market's at, so.... not sure where that leaves me.
not exactly keeping me up at night, tho. I'm far more interested, right now, in developing fresh visual content, and ways to merge live instrumentation and electronics, to play our sets and really create something new (artistry)/get real paid doing so (musician).
So Deadly, Depone, Pete, Ledge, et al-- WHERE'S YOUR HEAD AT?
so i'm curious-- for the older heads here, the folks who've had releases, worked with/for/owned/managed labels-- as we've watched dubstep rise, what are your goals as an artist/musician? I separate the 2 because an artist creates; a musician works.
the opportunity that's out there for folks w/ a solid dubstep background is enORMOUS. Through a partnership w/ a publishing company I write for (again, a musician "works"), we just did a dubstep-y live arrangement for some Jpop singer/rapper. Completely unheard of to me, but she sells out 30,000 person arenas 3/4 of the way around the world... and was looking for something, as it wrote in the brief, "contemporary" and "referencing dubstep."
You couldn't even imagine that back in 2006. oh how times have changed.
so where are folks going? What do peeps want to be accomplishing over the next few?
On my end, the whole world of with-a-capital-D Dubstep has largely moved away from the super-swinging, dystopic dance music foundation that caught my ear in '05; it used to bug me, but i'm thoroughly ok with not being a part of overground dubstep. Playing live is really where it's at in the States, and we are having a blast with that. I'd love to continue writing 140-ish music that i love, but i doubt anyone under the age of 21 would call it "dubstep," and that's where the market's at, so.... not sure where that leaves me.
not exactly keeping me up at night, tho. I'm far more interested, right now, in developing fresh visual content, and ways to merge live instrumentation and electronics, to play our sets and really create something new (artistry)/get real paid doing so (musician).
So Deadly, Depone, Pete, Ledge, et al-- WHERE'S YOUR HEAD AT?
