Dubstep Showcase = Minnesota, MitiS, and more!
#WubWubWednesdays we great night of new music on turntable.fm from Minnesota, MitiS, Protohype, and many others. As you guys know, we have our own room, and the site is just one of the many ways that we find and connect with new producers. In the last few weeks, we’ve gotten to chat with tons of talented guys – Adventure Club, KDrew, theFatRat, Coyote Kisses, Ron Reeser, and many others. Last night was no exception, and the music was so fantastic I took the time to develop a sample playlist for those who missed it.
P.S. a TON of these tracks were unreleased, so a huge thank you to the artists for sharing them with us!!!!
DJs:
Minnesota – http://soundcloud.com/minnesota
MitiS – http://soundcloud.com/mitis
SpokenBird – http://soundcloud.com/spokenbird
Protohype – http://soundcloud.com/protohype
Distantt – http://soundcloud.com/distanttmusic
Candyland Dubstep – http://soundcloud.com/candylanddjs
Axionic – http://soundcloud.com/axonicmusic
Dark Grey – http://soundcloud.com/dj-dark-grey
Editor’s note: the original embed here was a mycloudplayers.com playlist widget, a third-party embed tool that’s now defunct along with turntable.fm itself. We’ve removed the dead embed; the individual artist SoundCloud links above are still live and are the best way to hear this lineup.
Turntable.fm Was A Genuinely Wild Experiment For Its Time
Turntable.fm let users hop into virtual “rooms” and take turns DJing for whoever else was in there, with everyone’s little cartoon avatar bobbing along in real time — it was a completely different model from anything else in music discovery back then, more like a shared listening party than a streaming platform. It ran from 2011 to late 2013 before the company shut it down to pivot toward a different live-events product, and while it didn’t last, it was genuinely ahead of its time in treating music discovery as a social, communal thing rather than something you did alone with headphones on.
For up-and-coming bass and dubstep producers, rooms like the one EDM Sauce ran on turntable.fm were a legitimately useful way to get unreleased material in front of an engaged audience and build relationships directly with artists before things like Discord servers existed to do the same job. Minnesota, MitiS, and Protohype in particular all went on to build lasting careers in the bass music scene, and early grassroots exposure through channels like this one was part of how that happened before algorithmic playlists took over as the dominant discovery method.
It’s a little wild looking back now that a whole scene-building strategy once ran through a browser-based DJ-avatar game, but that was genuinely how a lot of underground bass music discovery worked before Discord, before SoundCloud reposts were algorithmically boosted, and before streaming platforms had anything resembling a “new artist radar” feature.
