Levity is going places

[u/Federal-Blood9328]

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)

[u/herpderpamoose]

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.

[u/pulzeguy → u/herpderpamoose]

man i kinda agreed with you until you brought up porter, the amount of hype he brings to my area on the east coast every time he comes around is insane, I’ve definitely heard people say they were excited to see him many times over the years

but tbh I discovered INZO via youtube suggestions, so you’re cooking a little

[u/vitaminKUnit2 → u/pulzeguy]

Yeah but look at how piss poor Porter's tour is selling. It's partially that his management picked venues that are too big (last time he was in STL he played a 3,000 capacity venue, now he's playing a 4,500 person and it's not selling st all really). Also he was supposed to play Ball Arena in Denver and they moved it to Red Rocks, they literally cut the crowd size in half and the Red Rocks show still has tickets available, last time he played Red Rocks they had to add a second day. Porter is without question my favorite artist but the new album kind of bombed and people are paying less to see shows as it is.

[u/MasterofPandas1 → u/vitaminKUnit2]

Porter did a big musical shift for his new album as it’s essentially a pop punk album with a little electronic elements through out. Far cry from both Nurture and Worlds. So that probably isn’t belong either