LIVE · 00 · San Bernardino CA · 2010

The Room Was Empty. Then Sub Focus Played

The inaugural Beyond Wonderland was sold out. The venue was NOS Events Center in San Bernardino — a structure built to hold freight planes and 45-foot trailers, not ravers. Insomniac had sectioned it off, dressed it up, and handed DJ SS the keys to the drum and bass room.

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LIVE · LV-04 · 2011
Needle on Wax, Music Box at Capacity: Dirty Talk and Figure Shut Down LA Beatdown

Hollywood, California. Summer 2011. LA Beatdown at the Music Box. Dirty Talk and Figure — two of Play Me Records’ biggest players — took the Hollywood Boulevard room to its limit. WOMP TV was there. So was the crew filming the official video for Figure and Whiskey Pete’s ‘Cut Throat’ — which means some of what you see in this LIVE episode exists in two places at once: the WOMP TV archive and an official music video. This is that night documented from the inside.

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FlightLV-04
OriginLAX · Hollywood
Runtime4:30
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There Is
No American
DnB Channel.
There Is
Now.

Drum and bass has been alive in the United States since the 1990s. San Francisco. Los Angeles. New York. Dallas. DC. The parties were real. The artists were real. The culture was real.

None of it was documented. None of it was centered. The media that covered DnB covered the UK. American heads built the scene anyway — underground, self-funded, invisible to the rest of the world.

WOMP TV was built to end that erasure. Not to compete. To fill the void that should never have been there.

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