The likes of Hör and Boiler Room have never had anything to do with underground dance music culture. They are merely chancers… auctioneers, looking for profit. They do not plant or nurture any seeds. Stop propping up these fraudsters, do your homework. Nurture the roots.
there should be a group activity place, kinda like an escape room or axe throwing bar, except it’s for you and some friends to go into a sound proof booth and scream as loud as you can in an insane, unhinged way AND nobody can judge you for it
bandcamp editorial being gutted is particularly dark because some of the smartest writers and editors were over there covering scenes that *nobody* else would. 1 of the last music pubs that demonstrated unabashed curiosity, that treated music as an endlessly expanding world.