Style: UK Bass | Breaks / Breakbeat | UK Garage / UKG | Bassline | Dubstep / 140 | Deep Dubstep | Breakstep | Electro | Techno | Jungle / Drum & Bass | Grime | Leftfield Bass | Broken Beat | Future Garage | UK Club | IDM / Electronica
Description:
I’ve been digging through an incredible amount of bass music lately, and this is where some of that digging has taken me.
For the fourth instalment of my Bass Music series, I’ve pulled together 41 tracks that explore the spaces between UK bass, breakbeat, UK garage, dubstep, electro, techno and all of the wonderful sounds that don’t fit neatly into any one genre.
I’ve never been particularly interested in staying within the boundaries of a genre. What interests me is discovering how different pieces of music relate to one another. Sometimes it’s a shared rhythm, sometimes it’s a particular sound, and sometimes two tracks that seemingly have nothing in common turn out to be perfect companions.
This mix is full of those moments.
There are some incredible producers represented here, including Fixate, Aloka, NINA, Kassian, Dismantle, Yo Speed, Cesco, Plastician and Alix Perez. Some of these artists have been in my crates for years, while others are more recent discoveries. What they share is an ability to make music that demands your attention.
There are rolling basslines, broken rhythms, unexpected turns, moments of tension, and plenty of those filthy little sounds that make you involuntarily screw up your face.
One particularly memorable moment comes courtesy of DAVDCASE & Left/Right’s Defy, which samples Charlie Chaplin’s extraordinary speech from The Great Dictator (1940). Hearing those words, more than 85 years after they were first spoken, surrounded by contemporary bass music is a reminder that dance music doesn’t have to be mindless to make you move.
And after all of that rhythmic intensity, I close things out with Maribou State’s Vale. Because sometimes the most satisfying way to finish a journey is to give yourself a little room to breathe.
As always, this is a live recording. No pre-programmed transitions, no editing together the best bits. Just me, my decks, and 41 tracks that I wanted to share with you.
Turn it up, get lost in it, and see where it takes you.
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Tracklist:
- RAVL & Aloka – Drumlure
- NINA – Helicopters
- Kassian – Locked
- SICARIA & Lou Nour – BE THE GLITCH
- Dragan Zaranoff – Blue Hour
- Phasmid – Hadal Zone
- NINA – Pursuit Infinity
- Dragan Zaranoff – Drip Drip Woop
- Yo Speed – TST
- Mr. Sosa – Breadfruit
- msft – The District
- Fixate – Anticipate
- DAVDCASE & Left/Right – Defy (Extended)
- Fixate – Life Aquatic
- Guau & Lototskiy – Hold It
- Dismantle – Bleek
- DJ Sprinter – Moving
- Guau – Groove Tool
- Cesco & NINA – Rigid Lord
- Dismantle – Junk
- Aloka – Mind Wash
- Yo Speed – I Can Feel U
- Tom Jarmey – Split Roads
- Yo Speed – Crime Files
- Criso & Joe Nice – Knowledge
- Yo Speed – It Gets Worse & Worse
- Yo Speed – I Don’t Kno
- James Shinra – Blip
- Dragan Zaranoff – Adrenaline
- Dominic B & Declan Knapp – Dub Shot
- COIDO – Rollsplit
- Mak & Pasteman & Denham Audio – Push It
- Ayk – Demon In The Mirror (Som.1 Remix)
- Alix Perez – Mother Cell
- Dismantle – Good Old Days
- Plastician – Infinite Content Loop
- Alix Perez & SP:MC – Skunkworks
- Danny Goliger & Choopsie – Cycling
- Kassian – Ghost Dub
- Alix Perez & Cesco – Watch This
- Maribou State – Vale
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