Festivals aren't raves, burning man and a few concerts isn't a big rave scene. In London there are huge clubs that have huge dubstep nights every weekend, there are illegal warehouse raves and squat raves every weekend, smaller club nights that play dubstep everynight, the scene is the music and visa versa, dubstep is mostly a 18-25 year old thing y'all can't even go to a club til your 21!
LA as a city is about as conducive to a rave scene as Dubai, everything shuts at 2! Like I said I feel the west coast/american style is more geared to personal listening, the hip hop influences you described is part of that, from your point of view it makes it better because that makes it better to listen at home or in the car or more chilled out concerts etc but in context of what dubstep is about here I don't think many people do or would like it.
LA as a city is about as conducive to a rave scene as Dubai, everything shuts at 2! Like I said I feel the west coast/american style is more geared to personal listening, the hip hop influences you described is part of that, from your point of view it makes it better because that makes it better to listen at home or in the car or more chilled out concerts etc but in context of what dubstep is about here I don't think many people do or would like it.