
We're very excited to announce the immediate release of Maryland-based artist Chooky's new single "Shapeshifter" fea turing the vocal work of Carly Burns. Shapeshifter is a festival-sized anthem with a huge sound, thick basslines that will rattle your jaw, and beautiful vocal work and lyrics from Carly Burns. As in the past we're giving this tune away for free on Soundcloud today with the WAV and more on Beatport soon. LYRICS: I don’t know where you go in the dark, out of sight, into the night [...]
Stream: Mr Vega feat. KO-Lition - “Ape Shit (Kid Cedek remix)”

It's here! Miami Music Week has officially started and we're extremely psyched about our own party with Rot10 Musik at Kill Your Idol (222 Española Way, Miami Beach) on Thursday, March 22nd. As usual, we're mixing up the lineup with some of the rising stars in electronic music. This year it's moombahton and bass with our friends Sazon Booya, Willy Joy, Kid Cedek, ETC! ETC!, DFace, Trick Folexxx, Rotten Ralphie, and residents Al B Rotten, and Johnny Strokes. The event is free if you RSVP by emailing RSVP at subdrive.net - or RSVP on our [...]

We here around THE CULTURE OF ME were once obsessed with all things relating to Sassy and Dirt magazines. And while those titles are long gone, the sentiment of how they covered the culture industries has indeed left its mark on writers and culture vultures everywhere. It is because of that influence that we are proud to present our features post, "Getting Sassy with...", wherein we bring you that much closer to your favorite bands by way of a simple Q&A session that's both painless and informative. Ha! Beat that, FOX News! [...]
In 2006, Subdrive wasn't the Subdrive you know now. It was a tiny radio show & it got its first big party at then Galapagos (now Public Assembly) in Brooklyn. The party was insane, had... **Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.
Vanguard Bots is a futuristic magnet who recently joined the Subdrive crew (Terror Dactel, Sean Krames). His debut EP, AudioLucinogens, is scheduled to be released later this year. In the meantime,... **Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.
Sounding unlike anything else on the Subdrive family's roster, Vanguard Bots unveiled a two minute blipped out song called "Codex Loss" this weekend, a precursor to the upcoming EP Audio Lucinogens (out later this summer). If you're a fan of glitchy electronic music that leans heavily towards hip hop production and beat-heavy everything, check in... Read More
Another Noir party from Subdrive happened on Wednesday night at Happy Ending, one of our least favorite venues in New York City (hint hint guys, stop throwing parties there), but they had guest spots from two of our favorite female d.j.s, Jubilee and Louisahhh!, alongside residents Mr Vega and Matt Pace. We hung out, got... Read More
Another Noir party from Subdrive happened on Wednesday night at Happy Ending, one of our least favorite venues in New York City (hint hint guys, stop throwing parties there), but they had guest spots from two of our favorite female d.j.s, Jubilee and Louisahhh!, alongside residents Mr Vega and Matt Pace. We hung out, got... Read More
Semi-monthly NOIR from the kids at Subdrive is happy to announce that this Wednesday, May 18, they've secured a pretty amazing night of guest d.j. sets, from Nightshifters queen Jubilee and one-half of Staccato, Louisahhh!!!, both to join the resident d.j.s Matt Pace and Mr Vega. We'll be there, the party is free and it's [...]
Tonight during the proceedings of Winter Music Conference in Miami, Florida, a number of boys and girls from our fair Brooklyn borough from the Trouble & Bass, Subdrive and Rot10 Musik labels will be taking over the venue Kill Your Idol for a night of bass music. With sets from the likes of Zombies For [...]
The second volume of the bi-monthly party at Happy Ending from the kids of Subdrive, this one last week featured DJ sets from Cobra Krames, Mr NiceGuy, DJ ARQ (our Rando BFF) and the party had the place crushing it. We weren't there--you know, we were in Austin for South By Southwest--but our photo intern [...]
Sean Krames is Cobra Krames, purveyor of booty-shaking basslines and tropical rave music that we've talked at great length about, but he's on a different path here, with walking stick in hand and born name on his breath, as "Nightstalker" marks the first release he'll drop on the open source net label Subdrive, backed with [...]
A different way of doing things on this track, courtesy of the one and only Mr Vega, who's spent the last year getting the kind of treatment a young producer hopes for: plays on Radio One, Essential Mix inclusions, club dates, popular tracks on the charts of the Hype Machine and Beatport and more. But [...]
Subdrive, the open-source electronic music net label, started out at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn with a radio show and local events six years ago. The legend continued two years ago, when Subdrive became the label itself, and not just an events promoter and proponent of their own brand of dance music. And Saturday, the gang [...]
Subdrive, the little net label that could, is turning the bright old age of six this week--today is actually the sixth anniversary day--and the gang are celebrating this Saturday night in New York City (just a few miles from their Pratt Institute beginnings) by showcasing their talent at Drom on Avenue A. The label itself [...]
Online open-source Brooklyn-based label Subdrive have teamed up with online music Web site Soundcloud, one of the best utilities these days for both burgeoning musicians and established talent, for a remix competition based around the new single from Subdrive artist Terror Dactel and his excellent track "DEF". Remixers can download the full collection of stems [...]
As the release party for the video and new single for "DEF", from Subdrive recording artist Terror Dactel as well as featuring a DJ set from Trouble & Bass Polish kids Supra1 (one of the pair was there slinging tunes), this week's Rando at Gallery Bar on the Lower East Side was super, super fun, [...]
Kids do the darnedest things, don't they? In this new, just-released video clip from Subdrive artist Terror Dactel (directed by Philippe Grenade and beautifully shot on the RED camera by DP/producer Jarret Egan) for his new single "DEF"--which also just dropped today online/iTunes--we get two young ones who are ritualistically kidnapping and torturing, with the [...]

Cover photography Victor Castro Two weeks ago we filmed our very first music video for our first signing, Terror Dactel . It's for his new single, DEF / Tactical Nuke, dropping next week on November 16th. The tune has been in the works since this year's WMC, and has already been rocked at festivals and clubs around the world by big names such Mustard Pimp, Chewy Chocolate Cookies, Udachi, Digital Boy + Shark, Figure, among many. We're really excited about this release and come the 16th, We'll have the [...]