Bass Music Vol 04

Bass Music 04

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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:

  1. RAVL & Aloka – Drumlure
  2. NINA – Helicopters
  3. Kassian – Locked
  4. SICARIA & Lou Nour – BE THE GLITCH
  5. Dragan Zaranoff – Blue Hour
  6. Phasmid – Hadal Zone
  7. NINA – Pursuit Infinity
  8. Dragan Zaranoff – Drip Drip Woop
  9. Yo Speed – TST
  10. Mr. Sosa – Breadfruit
  11. msft – The District
  12. Fixate – Anticipate
  13. DAVDCASE & Left/Right – Defy (Extended)
  14. Fixate – Life Aquatic
  15. Guau & Lototskiy – Hold It
  16. Dismantle – Bleek
  17. DJ Sprinter – Moving
  18. Guau – Groove Tool
  19. Cesco & NINA – Rigid Lord
  20. Dismantle – Junk
  21. Aloka – Mind Wash
  22. Yo Speed – I Can Feel U
  23. Tom Jarmey – Split Roads
  24. Yo Speed – Crime Files
  25. Criso & Joe Nice – Knowledge
  26. Yo Speed – It Gets Worse & Worse
  27. Yo Speed – I Don’t Kno
  28. James Shinra – Blip
  29. Dragan Zaranoff – Adrenaline
  30. Dominic B & Declan Knapp – Dub Shot
  31. COIDO – Rollsplit
  32. Mak & Pasteman & Denham Audio – Push It
  33. Ayk – Demon In The Mirror (Som.1 Remix)
  34. Alix Perez – Mother Cell
  35. Dismantle – Good Old Days
  36. Plastician – Infinite Content Loop
  37. Alix Perez & SP:MC – Skunkworks
  38. Danny Goliger & Choopsie – Cycling
  39. Kassian – Ghost Dub
  40. Alix Perez & Cesco – Watch This
  41. Maribou State – Vale

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