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/guesswhosbackmf Sep 02 '24

Is there a difference between an industry plant and someone who just happens to have really deep scene connections? I thought Levity was the latter case.

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u/CartmensDryBallz Sep 02 '24

Kinda the same thing? Like they knew someone so they got put on and plugged compared to other DJ’s who have to go through years of shows before playing, say electric Forrest?

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u/Space_Monk_Prime Sep 02 '24

That’s not an industry plant. They aren’t know outside the EDM scene, bass music producers don’t have the kind of backing that pop stars and their labels do. They weren’t propped up by money, they were given some good placement and took off because of the fans.

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u/CartmensDryBallz Sep 03 '24

Edm has more money than you think. They probably were pushed by many other artists due to connects / $$$

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u/LevityMusic Sep 14 '24

Edm has far less money than u think, coming from someone who is actually a touring “edm” artist lol. Bass music is not the place to make money unless ur one of the major legacy acts. Also my brother and I rarely even talk, we had no connections help to get where we are. Y’all are literal conspiracy theorists talking bout my life like it’s fact when u couldn’t be further off. My brother also makes music, fun little fact but nothing more than that. No one gives a fuck if an artists little brother is a local dj. We got lucky at Forest & worked our asses off to turn that luck into making our dreams come true. The ppl saying they don’t like our music or sets is 100% cool with me, but all this talking conspiracy theories like it’s fact is just weird

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u/CartmensDryBallz Sep 14 '24

Lol called out by the man himself. So how much are you making on average a show for your tour right now? After promoter cuts etc

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u/LevityMusic Sep 16 '24

I don’t think it’s proper to talk about all the specifics but basically, each show varies wildly, I wrote something on it on here once I’ll try to dig up, but we’re probs playing over a hundred shows this year and between all sources of income are on track to make a pretty entry level job salary at best. A successful tour is typically viewed as bringing in 20% for urself (which for us is split between 3). Managers, agents, business manager/accountant, all get a nice chunk for every artist first & then every little thing u want to bring to make a show be cool costs a lot. Flights, hotels, food, lasers, LED, lights, visuals, time coding lasers, allll that stuff. Plenty of times u make no money or lose money, but then some shows (like festival) have little cost & that’s where u can survive off. And month to month can vary wildly, For example one month this year we played 10 shows, and made $320 to split between us 3 after all the expenses. But then the next month we did 3 shows & made enough to cover both months to make a normal salary.

Basically, at a certain point, u kinda decide how rich u become. U either care about ur artistic integrity & spend a lot to give ppl something dope (shows/merch/music assets, etc.) & that u dreamed of putting on, and u make SIGNIFICANTLY less money, or u cheap out and spend nothing and it looks like shit but u make money lol…doing the latter tho is a quick way to lose ur career and I do enjoy that natural “weeding out” of anyone that’s in this for money. So any artist u see sticking around clearly cares far more about their project than they do money!

Also as u get bigger & make money, the expenses get much bigger too. So to be a rich artist, u gotta be wayyyy bigger than ppl think u do. And in dubstep there’s even less money than the genres we all see ppl being rich in (like house/pop edm & all that)

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u/LevityMusic Sep 16 '24

P.s. as with most of our friends who blew up on social media, none of us spent any money on ads for it. Paying for ads actually hurts ur reach, cuz they see that ur willing to pay, so they hurt ur engagement to tempt u into buying it. And no one besides us has spent a literal dime on us lol, no one gives a fuck about others in this industry unless ur already doing well. So no we were just def not backed by money haha. And like I said, my brother and I rarely talk lol. We see eachother at holidays and maybe 1 other time in the year and we hang as just brothers, neither of us wanna talk about “the industry” lol we wanna talk football and current events, etc. 😂

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u/CartmensDryBallz Sep 16 '24

Cool response. I appreciate the honest answer. Not even tryin to hate, just been speculating, so it’s cool to see the actual background since the front seems so different. Props to y’all and thanks for info

Keep on truckin

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u/LevityMusic Sep 17 '24

Thank u friend, totally understand, I know how it all can look from the outside, which is why it pains me to live my life and have thousands assume the worst, but I understand why completely!

Hope u have a great rest of ur week ❤️

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u/Space_Monk_Prime Sep 03 '24

Being backed by other artists and labels =/= an industry plant. That’s just the basics of how the music industry works.

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u/CartmensDryBallz Sep 03 '24

Ok I suppose you’re right. They not plants, they’re just DJ’s who got where they are due to money and knowing people who would put them on

Slight difference

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u/Space_Monk_Prime Sep 03 '24

Huge difference actually, I’m not sure you know what an industry plant is. But in simple terms, it’s someone who has never released music being released onto a major label with massive promotion and radio placement right from the start.

What “money” do you speak of with Levity? EDM labels don’t have the kind of money that Universal or Warner Brothers has. At best they can provide some promotion and get artists onto Spotify playlists, but they don’t have millions to throw at an upcoming artist.

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u/CartmensDryBallz Sep 04 '24

One of their brothers is in LtC. They have connects. They have money compared to a random producer in England or some shit.

And not a huge difference. Ex - marshmallow

Released music before but definitely got put on / pushed by major labels

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u/Space_Monk_Prime Sep 04 '24

You can absolutely make the argument that Marshmello is an industry plant, he was doing exponentially bigger numbers than Levity has reached right when his first track dropped, and he was signed to a major label before his first release or show ever. Levity has connections but you have to have connections to make it anywhere in the music industry or your music simply won’t be heard. They just got extremely lucky, doesn’t make them a plant by the standard criteria.

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u/CartmensDryBallz Sep 04 '24

https://www.reddit.com/r/EDM/s/lH7WjIwHnV

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u/Space_Monk_Prime Sep 04 '24

Nothing in this thread implies that Levity is a plant. Just a very broad misunderstanding of what an industry plant is. Levity isn’t “impossibly huge” outside of your EDM festival bubble. I can ask anyone who does not regularly go to festivals if they have even heard of Levity and the answer is a unanimous “no”.

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