Every music scene needs a heartbeat — somewhere the information flows, the community gathers, and the culture gets documented. For Adelaide’s drum and bass underground, that heartbeat has been Adelaide Massive since 2003.
Run by the tireless DJ Khem, Adelaide Massive isn’t a promoter, a venue, or a ticket seller. It’s something rarer and more valuable: a neutral community platform that connects every corner of the city’s bass music ecosystem. When Sub Focus rolls into Gluttony during Fringe, when Bailey returns to Zhivago for a three-hour Metalheadz masterclass, when a local selector like Fiction drops an all-vinyl jungle set at Closer Record Store — Adelaide Massive is where the community finds out about it.
What makes the platform so vital is what it chooses not to be. It doesn’t compete with the promoters it supports. SAUCE, AirDNB, Wickid Lickwid, The Collective, Ez Now, Club Deep — they all run their own nights across venues like Ancient World, Zhivago, Divide, and Little Red Door. Adelaide Massive simply brings them all together on one page, alongside a curated archive of mixes stretching back decades and a dedicated Local section that spotlights homegrown talent like Patch, Rusha, Jane Doe, and Bennie Raw.
Adelaide has always had bass in its blood. This is the city that gave the world Groove Terminator, Sonny Fodera, and Juliet Fox. Fresh 92.7 broadcasts five dedicated DnB shows every single week. But none of it would be as connected or as discoverable without Adelaide Massive quietly threading it all together.
Twenty-two years rolling. No corporate backing, no algorithms, no ads — just one person making sure that everyone who loves bass music in Adelaide knows exactly where to be and when. That’s community infrastructure, and it’s irreplaceable.
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