Seems like artists in DnB are more reliant on DJ play, their own DJ gigs and getting on big YT channels like UKF

Yeah I think that's exactly it. I have reached out to a few dnb djs over the years and the smaller stations are pretty chilled out and flexible with their approach. I think you have to have a certain sound to get featured on the bigger YT channels and UKF though. I have tried to get my liquid tunes on Mr Suicide Sheep before but to no avail.

I've finally overcome the issues I was having with engineering and so I'll be putting a few tracks up online soon, so I get to go through all this myself

Ah yeah I remember you were focusing on your productions a bit more, looking forward to hearing them once you upload them. I guess on Soundcloud haha!

Did you ever reach out to labels to work with them?

There is one label I'm going to reach out to but I will need to catch up with my former DJ partner on Platform Project as it's been over a year since I last did a show and he's moved on to a bigger online station so could be a good avenue to do a guest mix for. Cubapl reached out to me as well for a mix on here so will blow the dust off thr decks. Hive account@dnbpromo has also set up his own network of dnb DJS last year.