Getting respect from your peers should only be based on the quality of your music in whatever format it is released especially in this digital age. I think it's sad that the yard stick for dubstep still seems to be dubplates, 12' vinyl, the london club scene and backslapping pirate radio.
Fuck reputations and reputability I'd rather stay underground and in retrospect from a future vantage people say " Yup, while i was listening to whatever crap shit the majors were paying to be played on radio and TV or grooving along with the other hip scenesters propping the latest trendy young things there was this shit bubbling away underneath and we slept all over it."
I wouldn't worry Michael, your entities/productions are duly noted in the annals of NZ electronica, take heart in that and yeah don't give up the day job.
Cheers for the link, some good shit there cuz...BIG TUNES as they say
BTW I cant believe you immortalised Invercargill in song...classic
Another thing lacking especially here in NZ is good managers, agents, publicists, A&R people, pimps, hustlers, promoters and middle management. Yet the NZ music commission still keep running stupid workshops for people on how to fill out forms for funding and promoting and all it does is take the musician further away from what they should be doing and that is music and filling their heads full of sellout business models and looking for handouts.
perhaps this suggests the limitations placed upon our Internet free-state paradise by the strictures of the capitalist real?
reckon you could dumb that down for me and put it in laymans terms ?