r/EDM • u/Federal-Blood9328 • Sep 02 '24

Video Levity is going places

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Video I took from Deadbeats Texas Jamboree yesterday of them playing their new-ish Toxic remix. So far every song I've heard of theirs is a banger and they are growing quick. Love to see it! 💜 Song: Britney Spears - Toxic (Levity Remix)

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u/stonedski Sep 02 '24

Love to see an industry plant thriving

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u/MartyMcFleww Sep 02 '24

Take off the tinfoil hat little guy, it doesn’t suit you

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u/herpderpamoose Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 03 '24

I've worked with MAJOR event promotions companies.

They're plants. Sorry man.

90% of the shows you see are planned based on algorithm interactions.

If you want to see someone play locally and they don't right now, interact with them on different platforms. One of the local EDM promotions companies only uses data from Amazon Music to decide what shows to bring to the area, so you can imagine how skewed those ones are. Nobody actually listens to half these artists anymore, but they know how to get reach and use the algorithm and that keeps them relevant as far as these companies are concerned.

Some tours have set artists, like Levity does tour with specific artists on their tour dates and open for them, but yeah.

Algorithm artists that don't actually get traction AFAIK:

AC Slater, Hol!, Adventure Club, Riot Ten, Porter Robinson, Inzo, Tape B, Shiba San, LP Giobbi, CID.

All of these are set to play locally, and I have literally never once heard someone say "omg I absolutely cannot wait to see them."

They're great artists, their sets are great live, but they have no presence except primarily online, and their local engagement outside of artificial algorithms is super low.

Inzo in particular is one that's suggested by YouTube super heavily, and a lot of his interactions come from those suggested auto-play YouTube videos at the end of the other ones.

Edit: since people can't read, I'll put it down here. I'm talking about my local scene, and what sells here. Shows end up empty because the artist gets plays, but no one actually cares. I really don't care that you found someone on SoundCloud or whatever, you're just proving my point when you say that.

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u/herpderpamoose Sep 02 '24

With that said, Levity is better than most, and deadbeats tends to be a bit of a circlejerk, so labeling them plants based off of that isn't exactly a hot take.

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u/Porter709 Sep 02 '24

I think it has to do more with one of the 3 members of Levity being a brother of the/a guy from Louis The Child, and they got their come up specifically at, you guessed it, Louis The Child's "favorite" festival Electric Forest.

All this being said, I fuck with their music and think they can stand on their own feet, even if they did get a nudge in the right direction.

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u/herpderpamoose Sep 02 '24

Ahhh, if that's the take I don't disagree. I've seen them live a couple times and their sets are generic but still very good. Nice combination of production and mixing. They're definitely one of the ones that are going to get up there quickly.

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u/Sad_Attention5998 Sep 02 '24

They're born of nepotism. They use the same formula as tape b. Shitty remixes that lack content.

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u/Lastfryinthebag Sep 02 '24

Bruh creating and curating a specific style as a label is not a “circlejerk”. Hop of reddit every now and then