UK Bass/Bass music - what is it. How to produce?

[Sambo]

As if genres weren't confusing enough for people, the term "bass music" was coined.

Implying that other genres didn't have bass. Bizarre isn't it!

I love garage, bassline. Also some of the jackin stuff is good, Lorenzo for example.

[Conall]

Implying that other genres didn't have bass. Bizarre isn't it!

I love garage, bassline. Also some of the jackin stuff is good, Lorenzo for example.

Another one that's even weirder, "dance music"

[Sambo]

Another one that's even weirder, "dance music"

I remember when people called it that at school and I was like, what kind? Which usually received the response of "... Dance music." For a brief while, I thought all the scum kids took dance lessons, then I got home and on the old 56k, did a google, and thats when I discovered the umbrella term dance music. I also recall some chavs being into hardcore and I said "Yeah I like some hardcore too" and played them a gabber track. Turns out, they didn't like hardcore, they liked Scooter.

[beisi]

this is one of my fav genres of the moment, I really like how it covers a wide variety of genres from garage, uk funky, techno, deep house, trap, post dub step, juke/footwork etc etc

don't see the point in being all precious about the whole 'bass' tag, I mean if you wanted to be pendantic wouldn't the oldest definition of bass music be miami booty bass?

OP, suggest you check out juno's bass tag, it makes sense to me at least... also there is another kick ass thread on here with other DJTTers regularly laying out some good tunes

can be a bit confusing when darker dubstep/US brostep/drumstep and dark DnB get lumped in with it which I subjectively don't think fits the vibe of it, gave up on beatports tagging a while ago for this reason, maybe it got better now, not sure...

re OPs question on defining characteristics to produce music from this fairly broad umbrella genre: (all my subjective take on it)

• trap is fairly well known by now, loads of 808 kick/pitched snare and hi hats rolls
• post dub step was the round 140ish dubstep minues the schreeching mid range and loads of pitch shifted singy vocals and reverb
• on the more housey styles I notice that they lay off the side chain synth a bit, focus on getting clean sounding bass stabby sounds and often the whole up one semitone/down one semitone deep house thing, quite a lot of break downs with lush pads before going back to no pads at all
• the jukey trap production seems a bit more sample based, slice/choke/replay mpc/maschine style and for the 160+ some chopped up drum loops, a lot of the footwork stuff seems to ironically have little bass at all, just lots of high pitched snares
• the 'future garage' stuff seems just like garage with a bit more deep house feel
• i'm at a loss to try to define the techno aspect of it, seems whenever some of it doesn't fit into the other sub sub genres...

ideally I would put a solid example of each but no time for that at the mo... maybe later on...

[LoopCat]

this is one of my fav genres of the moment, I really like how it covers a wide variety of genres from garage, uk funky, techno, deep house, trap, post dub step, juke/footwork etc etc

don't see the point in being all precious about the whole 'bass' tag, I mean if you wanted to be pendantic wouldn't the oldest definition of bass music be miami booty bass?

OP, suggest you check out juno's bass tag, it makes sense to me at least... also there is another kick ass thread on here with other DJTTers regularly laying out some good tunes

can be a bit confusing when darker dubstep/US brostep/drumstep and dark DnB get lumped in with it which I subjectively don't think fits the vibe of it, gave up on beatports tagging a while ago for this reason, maybe it got better now, not sure...

re OPs question on defining characteristics to produce music from this fairly broad umbrella genre: (all my subjective take on it)

• trap is fairly well known by now, loads of 808 kick/pitched snare and hi hats rolls
• post dub step was the round 140ish dubstep minues the schreeching mid range and loads of pitch shifted singy vocals and reverb
• on the more housey styles I notice that they lay off the side chain synth a bit, focus on getting clean sounding bass stabby sounds and often the whole up one semitone/down one semitone deep house thing, quite a lot of break downs with lush pads before going back to no pads at all
• the jukey trap production seems a bit more sample based, slice/choke/replay mpc/maschine style and for the 160+ some chopped up drum loops, a lot of the footwork stuff seems to ironically have little bass at all, just lots of high pitched snares
• the 'future garage' stuff seems just like garage with a bit more deep house feel
• i'm at a loss to try to define the techno aspect of it, seems whenever some of it doesn't fit into the other sub sub genres...

ideally I would put a solid example of each but no time for that at the mo... maybe later on...

Well said mate. It makes more sense to me to label sub bass heavy music with dub/house/garage/2step whatever influence under one banner opposed to having an arguement about how much that tune isn't post dubstep/garage tech or some genre that was mentioned by some guy in an interview.

[johney]

'post-dubstep'

[LoopCat]

'post-dubstep'

My point exactly

[DubluW]

''So what are brazil nuts called in brazil?........'' ''Nuts''


''Whats UK Bass Music?.........''

[Patch]

I laughed at this:

Turns out, they didn't like hardcore, they liked Scooter.

While I was still laughing at this:

played them a gabber track.

[vpech013]

''So what are brazil nuts called in brazil?........'' ''Nuts''


''Whats UK Bass Music?.........''

There is just soo much cool shit coming out of UK. Here in Canada many-many musicians are really looking up to you guys across the pond