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

Christmas and new year just passed, a WHOLE lot of freebies and free EPs and such were given away the last few days. Grab those tunes !!!

does anyone mix dirty robot sounding electro house into dubstep? I found that both at 135 can sound pretty good if they are the right tracks. Ive also found that there are a lot of people that "love" dubstep and have no idea that Im throwing house in as well.

one track for you: Krewella - Killin it (killagraham remix)
I do believe Krewella has their Play Harder EP for free download on their facebook page.

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I wondered when a response like this would come along.

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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...

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!

Christmas and new year just passed, a WHOLE lot of freebies and free EPs and such were given away the last few days. Grab those tunes !!!

does anyone mix dirty robot sounding electro house into dubstep? I found that both at 135 can sound pretty good if they are the right tracks. Ive also found that there are a lot of people that "love" dubstep and have no idea that Im throwing house in as well.

one track for you: Krewella - Killin it (killagraham remix)
I do believe Krewella has their Play Harder EP for free download on their facebook page.

+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.

+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...

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!

alright, if you've got a few weeks that's not too bad but you will probably be kind of busy trying to find the tunes and practicing.

do you know if they want strictly dubstep at 70/140 bpms? a lot of people playing that genre tend to also mix in drumstep, drum & bass and the bouncy 100-110bpm dubstep sounds. if so, you'll also have to find good ways to transitions between tempos and usually the trick is to not linger in one tempo range for too long or it becomes kind of a shock when you switch.

you can check out my 2 mixes of that style...not sure if you'll like them but it shows how i went about putting a set of those sounds together. i did a lot of short mixes because i don't want to listen to a full dubstep song since it's going so crazy and tends to sound like the same song pasted together twice to me.

http://soundcloud.com/squidot/squidot-imaginary-friends

here's more of a dnb flavored short set:
http://soundcloud.com/squidot/squidot-stitching-up-monsters-chapter01

i was told by one person (who runs the we love dub blog - check them out for tracks too btw) that my imaginary friends mix had too many quick cuts into other songs and not enough blends. i tend to disagree, especially with the tracks in the beginning, but i guess it's just a matter of personal preference. i did some pretty long blends in areas, especially in the end, sometimes with a few tracks going on at once. i went through a huge dubstep phase, but i burned myself out and don't really want to listen to it any longer.

well, maybe you will like it and can pick up at least an idea or two from them.

good music in any genre is a subjective thing. you're just going to have to get on beatport, soundcloud, bandcamp, or whatever site you get music from and listen to a bunch of tracks until you find what you like. you can also search for dubstep blogs to open yourself to new sounds.

as far as mixing it, i used to do a lot of quick cuts because it's a very busy style of music that doesn't have much in the way of long intros and outros. you can interchange drops and breakdowns pretty easily. you can also blend some breakdowns ok if you find good tracks that fit well.

yup, just listen to a bunch of dubstep mixes and see what works and what sounds horribly wrong. i tend to hear people try to mix it like house with long blends, and two tracks both blasting on 10...just don't do that.

when is this gig?