I’ve been listening to some so called ‘bass music’ but I honestly can’t yet put a finger on what exactly it means. Seems like so much stuff is being grouped into it - from deep house to drum and bass too dubstep.
Especially I want to know because I want to try producing it. When I am told house music I know its usually 4 on the floor kick pattern. With bass music i cant seem to find any tutorials online.
Id appreciate any insight into what UK Bass and Bass Music is and how can I get producing it.
Eugh, this term makes me sick to my stomach. ‘UK Bass Music’ is just a term that’s been coined to cover all of the genres like drum & bass, dubstep, house, trap.
I like this sound but i cant figure out what this is about. It seems all over the place. is it just crazy swing on hi hats and bass drums that hide the four-on-the-floor beat?
Are there any resources out that that looks into this ‘bass’ music?
Royal-T
T Williams
Zed Bias
Roska
Mosca
Azari & III
Shadow Child
Zinc
Leftwing
Jack Dixson
Dusky
Luciano Garofalo
Eats Everything
Hot City
Jam City
L-Vis 1990
Maelstrom
Dont forget to also check out Huxley and LKiD. And you might like some of the Jackin house stuff from the North of the UK. Lorenzo, Hannah Wants and the like.
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.
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.
