Subtronics is Jesse Kardon, a Philadelphia producer who came up through the riddim underground with his "Now That's What I Call Riddim" mixtape series and broke out in 2019 with "Griztronics", a GRiZ collaboration that went top 10 on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic chart. His sound is dense, screeching, heavily engineered dubstep - the sound design is what other producers talk about - and he runs the Cyclops Recordings label. He has since scaled up to arena and stadium-tier bookings with a production-heavy show built on lasers, pyro and wall-sized LED. In the Pacific Northwest he tends to appear as a festival headliner rather than on club bills.
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An absolute, national (US) measure — not a ranking against the other artists on this site. We take the strongest of three open signals: ListenBrainz listens, English Wikipedia pageviews, and the number of Wikipedia language editions that have an article. The strongest one wins, so a signal we couldn't read never drags the result down. Bucket 1 means measured and small. Unrated never means small — it means we don't have the numbers.
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BOO! Seattle 2026 — Night 1
BOO! Seattle 2026 — Night 2
What listeners say
Attendee and reviewer reaction to Subtronics sets is close to uniformly enthusiastic, and the production is the recurring headline: a Barclays Center review of the TESSERACT tour describes jaw-dropping visuals - lasers, pyrotechnics and full-wall LED screens built around whichever album cycle he is on - synchronized tightly to the music. Sound design is the other constant compliment; the same reviewer notes that even people who do not follow bass music can appreciate the engineering, and credits his range from groovy and subdued to hard-hitting. The one persistent reservation is genre-level rather than personal: riddim-leaning dubstep is criticised for repetitive quarter-note drops, a characteristic Subtronics has himself acknowledged applies to his material. Be aware that this reading skews positive because the forums where bass fans air complaints are not reachable by this crawler.
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