The HEAVIEST bassline EVER

william_kent

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Bass is in the news!

A scientific paper was featured ( a couple of days late tbh ) on Sky 'news" yesterday - asserting bass makes people dance, or more properly:

Undetectable very-low frequency sound increases dancing

although Sky illustrated this with a particularly weak choice ( Meghain Trainor - All About That Bass, not going to post a link because..."shite" I don't particularly care for that tune )

of course we old ravers always knew "Women Respond to Bass"


Renegade Soundwave - Women Respond To Bass

( admittedly the bass, and everything else, on this is pretty weak, but it's a good, albeit sexist, title though )

which makes me wonder - what is your entry for the "heaviest bassline"ever?

I'll kick off with:


Mungo Mtoto - Ghetto Children Version

( Dr Alimantado adopts an alias and, it is rumoured, Mad Professor goes wild on the mixing desk )

a record I'll probably never own because 1: it's a "Shaka Killer" and 2: the cheapest I've seen it for, on the rare occasions that it's up for sale, is £200 ( you've got to set limits, and this exceeds mine ) - never mind, I've got a needle drop WAV rip so I can always play it on CD or computer, whatever

of course, again, this raises ( not "begs"! ) the question of "what is heavy?"
 
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william_kent

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midnight request line
@woops comments in another thread, but good call!

from the days when I used hang about with a "free party sound system" i can remember standing in front of the speakers when this dropped and the waves of warmth were incredible... bass that soothes, invigorates, and made me move in ways that were probably amusing to those younger
than me...


Skream - Midnight Request Line
 

shakahislop

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my entry to this, haven't listened to it for ages but i used to think the bass was gnarly back in the day, actually i would have probably said that it was 'sick' at the time
 

shakahislop

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listening to it now and flowdan sounds ridiculous to me nowadays. sounds like he's trying to be hard. i guess he fooled me at the time though so he was pulling it off. i also rescind my entry to the big bassline challenge, it's good but its not the HEAVIEST EVER
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
good question for a thread, tough call my mind flooded blank, Blindness is on steroids haven’t heard for time

would ruminate on Les Vampyrettes initially but there are beasts galore across so many styles, even tracks like Darn Cold Way of Lovin by Super Collider juice it up mighty notches, the first 4 seconds of The Other One

have to think
 

william_kent

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listening to it now and flowdan sounds ridiculous to me nowadays. sounds like he's trying to be hard. i guess he fooled me at the time though so he was pulling it off. i also rescind my entry to the big bassline challenge, it's good but its not the HEAVIEST EVER

i once read an interview with The Bug where he said he was trying to recreate the sound that The Disciples / Boom Shacka Lacka Sound System achieved ( "Shaka disciples" )

something like this:


The Disciples Present Boom Shackalacka Sound System - Prowling Lion ( Extended )
 

william_kent

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not my faulty memory, Kevin "The Bug" Martin still mentions it in interviews:

“I went to a sound clash with two systems battling each other. Being in the middle, for me, was a sonic revelation,” Martin said. “It was Iration Steppas clashing with the Disciples. I’d never heard anything like it in my life. It was the most extreme bombardment, but deeply soulful and incredibly danceable. It was like funky warfare. I’ve never really recovered from that.”
 

shakahislop

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not my faulty memory, Kevin "The Bug" Martin still mentions it in interviews:
i think i saw him and shackleton play on the iration steppas system once. the system was the star of the show. my mate martyn that i went with claims that he got off with a girl immediately after we arrvied that night but i think he walked in there and couldn't hack it and then had to think of an excuse for leaving me by myself, its the kind of thing he'd do (definitely more the kind of thing he'd do than lothario some girl in 5 minutes)
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Lull - Slow Fall Inward....rather than post a vid I’m listening to it very attentively (while working)

among favourite of all records, nodded out for hours submerged in its bass frequencies and a piece worthy of extended multi-hour long edits

not a bass line so much as a bass world, whole composition emerges from its bottom end realms - everything else is delicious warped surface/panning

musique concrète compositions generated huge blocks of bass tones, eg Tod Dockstader and going beyond volume
 

william_kent

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Alternative TV - Alternatives ( 1978 )

their time on the road with free festival band Here & Now is reflected in the first few bars of this, but then the bass & drums take over as Mark Perry invites the audience to chat shit over the mic

no bass weight, but heavy in other ways, "my name's Margo(?) Johnston, OK, and our singer was killed three months..two weeks ago..in France..and we're looking for a singer"

maybe only makes sense if you've sat in a punk squat next to a bass amp cabinet blasting this out while you're tripping your box off
 
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martin

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"my name's Margo Johnston, OK, and our singer was killed three months..two weeks ago..in France..and we're looking for a singer"
It's Ivor Drumstick, from The Dead!
I like "If there were a load of skinheads down here...you'd all shit yourselves, and you know it!" Good one to use at Ghostbox gigs/negotiations with the Taliban/shouting at Covid spores.

I'm finding it hard to give examples on this HP laptop...want to say "Warriors" by The Dream Team, but doesn't sound anywhere near as good online as the stomach massage you're going to get through a deck and pair of speakers.
 

william_kent

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@martin : It's Ivor Drumstick, from The Dead!

a mystery solved...

like I maybe didn't say, I first heard this slumped next to a bass guitar cabinet in a punk squat, while tripping on CIA / Courtney Love (!) supplied "Superman" tabs of acid ( I'll "prove" it when I revive "The music of the Illuminati" thread ) , at the time it was heavy as fuck
 
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