Yes! its time once again for NH7, one of India’s widely popular and ever growing mega fest. To add something new this year, the NH7 team has decided to give all the budding electronica talent to feature at this year’s festival. The contest is open to music of genres Reggae/Dancehall, Dubstep, TRAP, Drum ‘n’ Bass, Moombahton, Electrohiphop, Glitch Hop, Live Experimental Electronica.
How to enter:
Create a 30 minute set titled “#NH7Weekender – @Dub_station stage DJ Set Contest – (YOUR DJ NAME HERE)” on Soundcloud. Use the following tags, ‘nh7weekender – dubstationindia – your artist name – the genre of music you use’
Use the below artwork as display picture of the track.
(note to editor: use image ‘dubstation cover art’)
The final set to be sent to [email protected]
Share to various social networks for votes based upon which the final five would be chosen
Beware: 24th October the top five to be selected.
Failure to follow instructions will lead to disqualification
The Prize:
One hour set @ Dubstation (stage)
Travel & accomadation for the weekend
One three day pass for a friend
Backstage access
Soundcloud Pro account
NH7 merchandise
Dub Station already has a mix of some interesting talent from across the country and abroad. The line up so far:
The Aston Shuffle | Tarqeeb | Million Stylez |
Dub Station | TripShot Crew | Mr. Williamz |
AlgoRhythm | ViceVersa | Mungos Hi-Fi |
EdGeCut | Vachan |
Those interested in going to NH7 weekender pune for pre booking tickets go here. A discount for those below 21 – So all young hipsters who want to get your feet wet in some festival style chilling go now!
Coming back to the competition, Based upon the favoraites/plays/likes/tweets the participants get, the top 5 would be chosen. The NH7 Judges would then decide who would get the chance to play a one hour set at the NH7 Weekender.The contest is up and running with a number of entries already. Entries from Artists/DJs from various places and diverse styles to be seen so far indicating a indicating tough battle.
Notable entries include those by Vaeya and Spiral aka Spiraltar. Apart from this, NH7 & Bindass also gave chance to a band to tryout to play at NH7 weekender in Delhi. This one was open for New Delhi based bands only. Similar competition to be held for Pune and Mumbai as well. Check the NH7 website for more on this.