Hey guys, I’ve been a long-time lurker, relatively new poster. Couldn’t find a thread about American dubstep so I thought I’d start one. Are there any producers from the US that you guys are currently digging?
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I’m not following the scene very closely, but these guys come to mind.
obligatory shout out to Matty G and the Argon crew aswell, they haven’t been active for a few years though…
Yeah Matty G did a promo mix for Artikal on FKOF last year but beyond that not much. And EshOne is killer of course.
The most popular stuff around here (LA) appears to be Megalodon, Antiserum type stuff. Which I’m not particularly keen on, but I’ll go to the shows just the same, they’re fun.
Check out Matty G and the Joe Nice Gourmetbeat crew like DJG, Malleus and Mesck
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What do you think about 6blocc aka R.A.W. for LA talent?
Yeah Malleus, DJG the usual suspects really.
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I definitely was a fan of 6blocc a few years back, but I haven’t heard anything about him since like 2013. I used to go to the HeavyLA shows that he was a resident at. There are definitely some good LA producers and DJs. And obviously there’s Low End Theory, but there isn’t a lot of dubstep there anymore.
Does SMOG still put on shows?
Honestly it seems like it’s been a long time, I haven’t heard about a SMOG show for a few years, but there are offshoots that are putting on shows.
Pavarotti who’s on SMOG puts on shows as Arcane Talent, they just had one with Megalodon, LOST was supposed to play but I guess couldn’t get to US in time or something, so instead it was just Da Force and some others.
EDIT: Actually Smog is putting on a final show at the House of Blues (they’re demolishing it) so I think they’re just trying to find a new venue.
I could post a dozen brostep(py) artists, but I suspect you’re not into that so…
Shlohmo:
The Widdler:
DJG as somebody above said:
Completely forgot the widdler was American
Very early datsik
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I didn’t know The Widdler was American. Origin album is really good.
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I wasn’t aware The Widdler was American either, and I heard him years ago. Haha weird.
Unfortunately the major developments in electronic music in US appear to be within the “trap/EDM” scene, or whatever the fuck it is people are calling it.
I should note there are quite a few labels based in the US that are releasing artists worldwide, such as Sub Pressure.
And apparently the label boss is also a deep producer as well
Unfortunately the major developments in electronic music in US appear to be within the “trap/EDM” scene, or whatever the fuck it is people are calling it.
Dubstep /ˈdʌbstɛp/ is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London, England. It emerged in the late 1990s as a development within a lineage of related styles such as 2-step garage, broken beat, drum and bass, jungle, dub and reggae.[2] In the UK the origins of the genre can be traced back to the growth of the Jamaican sound system party scene in the early 1980s.[2][3] The music generally features syncopated drum and percussion patterns with bass lines that contain prominent sub bass frequencies.
-Wikipedia, long before there was such thing as brostep
EDM is now just a buzzword people have been using for a few years now to describe the more mainstream-ish side of every genre of that in reality was already considered as electronic dance music.
No totally, I’m aware that “EDM” just stands for electronic dance music, and that it’s an all-encompassing term. I should have been clearer, I’m just referring to the kind of stuff OWSLA is putting out, the dubstep-influenced, trap-influenced stuff that isn’t really dubstep or trap at all but gets called dubstep and trap
Yeah, I know what you mean, lots of artists jumped into that train. Personally, I hate most of it, not all but about 90% of it.
There are guys like Truth, Mesck, EshOne, and AxH that have released on some of the major labels, but there are lots of other good producers in the North America that don’t get a lot of recognition and don’t have the same opportunities to grow and network like producers in South England do. save a few exceptions, the producers in North America are very spread out and can’t have that face to face interaction or the ability to do in person collaborations with other up and coming producers like people in South England, which really makes a difference for the development of a scene imo.
The best place to find good North American producers is Joe Nice’s show tbh. He plays plenty of stuff from overseas too, but he reps North America way more than other well known dubstep/bass DJs.
Here are some tunes from other North American producers that I really like, stuff you’d hear on the Gourmet Beats show.
Not to nitpick but aren’t Truth from NZ? Yeah you make a good point about the networking that can occur in London but not in the US because of the distances. I mean there are definitely scenes around the country, but a lot kind of have remained stuck in the 2010-11 sort of sound.