Asked to play dubstep gig, anything special I should know?

[MWagner]

throw in some trap, people go crazy for it. sure, it's a bit "flavor of the month", but it really is crazy popular with North American dubstep crowds and it mixes very easily with dubstep.

[lethal_pizzle]

anything special I should know?

Nah, just turn up with your hastily cobbled together dubstep set. It doesn't matter if the punters know much more about Dubstep than the DJ. You'll be fine!

[Ed Paris]

Nah, just turn up with your hastily cobbled together dubstep set. It doesn't matter if the punters know much more about Dubstep than the DJ. You'll be fine!

+1

to the op:
why in the hell would you agree to play a set with music you know nothing about? imho this is pretty deprecatory to this genre... sorry man. you should get to know your stuff well, before playing a set...

[DubluW]

Just dont throw down the most nasty, disgusting drops you can find. Build it up to that just like any other set. There's some Breakbeat, Future garage, Roots Dub and Grime that sits quite well at the 140 mark in a dubstep set, and can break the set up a bit and out of that lethargic BumpBumpClap that sometimes kill the set if it goes on too long.

I use stuff like the vids below to spice things up a bit before playing the face melters. Do some digging!







Oh! And check out Swindle, MindFlow and Joker. They do some really funky/electric-ee type dubstep/grime stuff. Again personal preference and all.

[BFLY]

+1

to the op:
why in the hell would you agree to play a set with music you know nothing about? imho this is pretty deprecatory to this genre... sorry man. you should get to know your stuff well, before playing a set...

I wondered when a response like this would come along.

[0Notice]

+1

to the op:
why in the hell would you agree to play a set with music you know nothing about? imho this is pretty deprecatory to this genre... sorry man. you should get to know your stuff well, before playing a set...

I told em that I am not that comfortable with dubstep to have the reaction of, "Nahh! You will be fine!" Plus I've always liked dubsetp and it seemed like a good opportunity to push myself and learn about a genre.

Thank you everyone for the great tips, already working on getting stuff together.

Btw, I am going to be playing for two and a half hours.

[keithace]

I wondered when a response like this would come along.

x2

[Ed Paris]

I wondered when a response like this would come along.

what´s wrong with my response? did i overreact?

[jprime]

+1

to the op:
why in the hell would you agree to play a set with music you know nothing about? imho this is pretty deprecatory to this genre... sorry man. you should get to know your stuff well, before playing a set...

+1 million battletoads.

[keithace]

what´s wrong with my response? did i overreact?

no...usually someone is in quick with a "you shouldn't take gigs outside of what you do". Passing the work on to someone who is versed in dubstep is the right thing to do. I recently got asked to play a 18 year olds birthday party. I took the gig called a friend and passed it to him. I understand the excitement of playing out and wanting to play out. We have a saying in golf, "the course is not the place to practice". (people do it anyways...because hitting balls on the range is soooooooooo boring)