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Jason Federman AKA Subpirate, has been running the Turbo Tuesday dubstep weekly at FUBAR for the past few months. Not only has it been wildly successful, it’s basically where the dubstep scene in the Tampa Bay area is being forged. We sat him down for an interview, and he hooked us up with a mix.

As the backbone of Turbo Tuesdays, the first and only successful Dubstep weekly in the area you are an innovator at the forefront of the Tampa Bay Dubstep scene. I’ve been to your shows and I must say that I am impressed. What you do for the scene is commendable and you have our respect. When and how did this all get started?

Well turbo Tuesdays started as a open mic night here at Fubar where a few local bedroom DJ’s and other performers that would come out and provide some sort of entertainment for the bar. I saw this not going very well and decided to do something about it. Fresh home from the WMC in Miami I found inspiration for Turbo Tuesday. I never had such a good time at a party as I did that week and wanted to continue the fun. Knowing dubstep was finally going to be the next marketable genre of EDM. I got with Todd Frain the bartender on that Tuesday night and we got it going. Spreading the sounds of the dub and bass to the few that were into it I gave the night a name and with the help of a pile of awesome friends started promoting the night I made friends with a few DJs that were new themselves to the scene but had a good following of friends from the surrounding colleges the night picked up and gained steam. We started booking weekly acts that would bring with them a few new faces each week and from there the word started to spread. and since the inception of Turbo we have had one clear purpose to put the best of the best in the Dubstep world in to the faces of the local masses.

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