In the end for this project I haven’t needed to do a lot of research. The main thing I have been doing is contacting dnb producers and asking for advice and tips on both production and promotion. Artists that gave me advice and help include Formula, Stranjah, ACP, Latte, Toxinate, Bully, and DASEPLATE (not a dnb producer but gave me promo tips).
A lot of what I have learnt producing this genre has mostly been personal experience – experimenting with effects, sound design, drum arrangement etc. The bit of research that I have done was not genre specific, I read parts of the serum (my main synth) manual about effects and filters which can be found inside the plugin itself.
As far as promotion is concerned so far I’ve just been in contact with a label of sorts and I’m doing a free download release of a different song onto soundcloud for djs to play, I have also been sending the songs for the ep out to djs and producers for feedback and hopefully for use.