Dubstep and Bass DJs

We track 124 Dubstep and Bass DJs. 75 are booked at festivals still to come, most at Forbidden Kingdom and Eternal NYE. 61 have tour dates on sale, 260 shows in all.

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Who to know

Ranked by festivals still to come, then tour dates, then every booking we have on record.

On tour now

61 Dubstep and Bass DJs with dates on sale, soonest first. From Ticketmaster, refreshed daily.

Playing festivals next

Every festival still to come with Dubstep and Bass DJs on the bill, soonest first. The Dubstep and Bass festival guide ranks them by how deep they book.

Most headline slots

The names printed in the biggest type, trusted to send everyone home.

  1. 1Excision8The heaviest end of North American bass music, staged with a wall of subs and a light rig that does half the assault.
  2. 2Illenium8The defining voice of melodic bass: emotional, arena-scaled drops built around real songwriting, sad songs engineered for fireworks.
  3. 3Skrillex8Bass music's shape-shifting elder, who went from brostep infamy to festival-set transcendence, with reinvention as a permanent state.
  4. 4Subtronics6Philadelphia riddim-dubstep heavyweight, all syncopated wobble and abrasive sound design, with a funk streak and a long-running tag-team with GRiZ.
  5. 5Seven Lions4Melodic dubstep with a trance heart, with soaring vocal tops over drops that still hit hard underneath, Ophelia-label worldbuilding included.
  6. 6RL Grime3The producer who made festival trap feel cinematic, with enormous drops and real compositional care, Halloween-mix mythology included.
  7. 7Slander3Coined 'heaven trap' and then spent a decade proving it was a real thing, with gospel-sized drops and genuine ache.
  8. 8Zeds Dead3Toronto duo of DC and Hooks, swinging between dubstep, drum and bass and house in a single set, and running the Deadbeats label on the side.
  9. 9Crankdat2High-velocity festival bass designed for maximum impact in the shortest possible window, with Ohio-bred drops engineered like demolition charges.
  10. 10Ganja White Night2Belgian duo trading in wobbling, psychedelic dubstep with a genuinely distinctive low-end signature, where the wobble is the brand and the argument.

Most places played

Whose year reads like a world tour that happened to be made of festivals.

  1. 1ALLEYCVT10Fast-rising Denver bass producer with melodic drops that have teeth, riding the front of the dubstep scene's younger, wilder generation.
  2. 2Hamdi10UK bass with a dancehall bounce: the sound of a soundsystem set rather than a festival drop, with 'Skanka' the breakout.
  3. 3MPH10UK garage revival heat with skippy drums and low-end pressure, two-step engineered for the new generation of dancefloors.
  4. 4Levity9Trio riding the new melodic-bass wave: riddim with feelings, drops that aim at the chest and the heart at once.
  5. 5Subtronics9Philadelphia riddim-dubstep heavyweight, all syncopated wobble and abrasive sound design, with a funk streak and a long-running tag-team with GRiZ.
  6. 6Illenium8The defining voice of melodic bass: emotional, arena-scaled drops built around real songwriting, sad songs engineered for fireworks.
  7. 7Level Up8Riddim producer with a heavy, minimal approach: a lot of space around some very large sounds, engineered for maximum stank face.
  8. 8LYNY8Textural, psychedelic bass music that is heavy without being blunt about it.
  9. 9Skrillex8Bass music's shape-shifting elder, who went from brostep infamy to festival-set transcendence, with reinvention as a permanent state.
  10. 10ISOxo7Weaponised trap built for a festival's loudest twenty minutes, with bright, brutal drops from one of the sharpest young producers in American bass.

Most saved to a plan

The Dubstep and Bass DJs people are building a Saturday around.

  1. 1Alison WonderlandClassically trained cellist turned bass heavyweight who sings on her own emotionally raw records, with trap-sized drops carrying genuinely vulnerable songwriting underneath.
  2. 2ALLEYCVTFast-rising Denver bass producer with melodic drops that have teeth, riding the front of the dubstep scene's younger, wilder generation.
  3. 3HamdiUK bass with a dancehall bounce: the sound of a soundsystem set rather than a festival drop, with 'Skanka' the breakout.
  4. 4LevityTrio riding the new melodic-bass wave: riddim with feelings, drops that aim at the chest and the heart at once.
  5. 5Maddy O'NealColorado electro-soul that stays melodic and funk-anchored no matter how heavy the low end gets, with Denver scene craft and soul-sample warmth.
  6. 6EOTOTwo String Cheese members improvising entire electronic sets live, with nothing pre-written, and dubstep and house conjured on the spot, never repeated.
  7. 7Liquid StrangerWakaan founder whose bass music leans psychedelic and genuinely weird rather than purely heavy, and label boss of freeform bass's whole ecosystem.
  8. 8Of The TreesWoozy, organic bass music that prizes texture and space over the drop, with forest-floor sound design in the CharlestheFirst lineage.
  9. 9A Hundred DrumsDeep, dubwise bass music built on space and restraint rather than impact, with subterranean low end and meditative pacing in the West Coast deep-dubstep lineage.
  10. 10BassvictimSnarling internet-era electroclash with bratty vocals over blown-out bass, reviving the genre's trashy Berlin glamour for a generation that missed it the first time.

All 124 Dubstep and Bass DJs

Sized by how many of the festivals we track have booked each act.

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