bassline house

rubberdingyrapids

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Now of course it could be that after such bass-sensitization in the 90s with jungle and UKG, by the 2000s those pleasure centres were burned out in my brain...

(Mind you, I'm actually having a hard time thinking of awesome bass bits in any genre during the 21st Century to date.... Rock for instance - despite there being a postpunk revival, it's slim pickings.... A few moments from Radiohead's Colin Greenwood, mostly on Kid A... The dude in Vampire Weekend - Chris Baio... )

But then I remembered....

There was at least one truly bass-tastic dance music genre in the 2000s.

And appropriately enough, it was called Bassline.

The bastard Northern child of speed garage... picking up on things from the previous post like Gant's "Soundbwoy Burial" (regarded as a Niche anthem in the North East) and productions by DJ Narrows... but pushing that warp science into a veritable Bass Baroque: intricately sculpted, slippery 'n' sinuous convolutions... frilly 'n' frantic... bass-snakes writhing and intertwining.... at times almost sounding at odds with the beat, like a counter-clockwise groove within the groove.

The sound had been bubbling along for much of the 2000s in that broad band of England from South Yorkshire across to Liverpool - its heartland being towns like Nottingham, Sheffield, Derby, Leicester ... A chap called Ambrose sent me a few burned CDs of DJ mixes in the mid-decade but can't say I was super impressed by Bassline House: mostly it just seemed like speed garage, frozen as a style, a regional curio (there was a subgenre called Organ House I seem to recall - that tickled me).

But the next time I checked it out - the later months of 2007 - Bassline seemed to have come along leaps and bounds. And a few months later it actually leaped into the UK charts, with a couple of hits that reached as high as #2.

idk about anyone else but i never really felt any true bass pressure from bassline house. it was all about the mid-rangey, grime-ish idea of 'basslines' rather than proper jungle or dubstep-style low end. prob all to do with it being the mp3 age - like, why bother with low end when most people prob wont even catch it? i like a lot of the weird, manic bass-lines in bassline, but few of them go down low like theyre supposed to really, do they?
 

Benny Bunter

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idk about anyone else but i never really felt any true bass pressure from bassline house. it was all about the mid-rangey, grime-ish idea of 'basslines' rather than proper jungle or dubstep-style low end. prob all to do with it being the mp3 age - like, why bother with low end when most people prob wont even catch it? i like a lot of the weird, manic bass-lines in bassline, but few of them go down low like theyre supposed to really, do they?

i guess the relative lack of sub is due to the faster tempos. if you've got a bassline with a lot of notes wobbling all over the place at such a brisk pace i'd imagine it'd all turn to sludge if they were at lower octaves. when it all slowed down to jackin/house n bass tempos the low end came back with a vengeance.
 

Benny Bunter

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I GOT KINDA VEXED READING THIS, YOU GUYS HAVENT BEEN TO A RAVE HAVE YOU ?

BASSLINE HOUSE IS NOT NICHE OR 4X4 .DONT MAKE THIS MISTAKE.
WHEN THEY SAY 'BASSLINE' ITS MEANT AS 4X4 BASSLINE ,NOT BASSLINE HOUSE.
IT WILL COST YOU YOUR LIFE IN SHEFFIELD lol
NICHE IS THE NEW SOUND OF 4X4 AND GRIME.
FUNKY HOUSE IS 1998 AND BEFORE AND NO ONE ABOVE LUTON LISTENS TO THAT AWFUL SHIT ANYWAY OR EVER DID.

most of you guys are over analyzing the niche/4X4 scene from an outside point of view.
heartbroken has been on dubplate about 18 months now and every girl that walks by me up north has it as their ringtone,they sing it at bus stops etcetc this tune is a HIT ,STOP HATING !!!!
shit.its hard to explain to someone whos hasnt been to leicester,derby,sheffield,coventry,birmingham or any niche raves at all how much its spreadand how diverse the style is,,but you wouldnt know that hey ?
your average niche raver doesnt buy recs or give a fuck about grime or dubstep and prob hasnt even heard of them and they relly dont give a fuck about the politics of the music.,why you discuss this ravers are dancing having a good time.
as far as theyr are concerned 4x4 niche is all it is....isnt that a beautiful thing ?

dont let yourself get stale move, with new sounds,,your a soundboy right ?

by the way i live in london.
:LOL:
 

Leo

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I GOT KINDA VEXED READING THIS, YOU GUYS HAVENT BEEN TO A RAVE HAVE YOU ?

BASSLINE HOUSE IS NOT NICHE OR 4X4 .DONT MAKE THIS MISTAKE.
WHEN THEY SAY 'BASSLINE' ITS MEANT AS 4X4 BASSLINE ,NOT BASSLINE HOUSE.
IT WILL COST YOU YOUR LIFE IN SHEFFIELD lol
NICHE IS THE NEW SOUND OF 4X4 AND GRIME.
FUNKY HOUSE IS 1998 AND BEFORE AND NO ONE ABOVE LUTON LISTENS TO THAT AWFUL SHIT ANYWAY OR EVER DID.

most of you guys are over analyzing the niche/4X4 scene from an outside point of view.
heartbroken has been on dubplate about 18 months now and every girl that walks by me up north has it as their ringtone,they sing it at bus stops etcetc this tune is a HIT ,STOP HATING !!!!
shit.its hard to explain to someone whos hasnt been to leicester,derby,sheffield,coventry,birmingham or any niche raves at all how much its spreadand how diverse the style is,,but you wouldnt know that hey ?
your average niche raver doesnt buy recs or give a fuck about grime or dubstep and prob hasnt even heard of them and they relly dont give a fuck about the politics of the music.,why you discuss this ravers are dancing having a good time.
as far as theyr are concerned 4x4 niche is all it is....isnt that a beautiful thing ?

dont let yourself get stale move, with new sounds,,your a soundboy right ?

by the way i live in london.
 

Pandiculate

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yeah go on iKoss, what tunes are on the limitless list demanding rotation? :)

i like 'ding dong' (also t2 i think) with some gobby female mc over the top, i forget who. that is a TUNE. it's on dj q's 4x4 cd volume 6.

this would've blown up on TikTok
 
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