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SubDocta - Iced Up VIP
Read more . . . →WAKAAN is one of those labels where you never quite know what you’re getting genre-wise, but the quality control is high enough that it doesn’t matter. SubDocta’s Iced Up VIP takes whatever the original version of Iced Up was and does something weirder and more interesting with it. The production here is genuinely strange — there are moments where it sounds like it’s going to resolve into something familiar and then veers off somewhere else entirely. Experimental bass as a genre description is almost uselessly broad, but in this case it fits: this is bass music that’s still working out...
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Flava D, SKALAH & D Double E - Different
Read more . . . →This is UK garage DNA crammed into a dubstep shell, which sounds like a terrible idea until you actually hear it work. Flava D’s been doing things with bass music for years that most producers don’t even know to attempt. D Double E is on here and that alone should be enough to get you to click play. The way his flow rides the beat is effortless — this is what MC culture over electronic music should sound like. SKALAH brings a harder edge to the bass work. Together the three of them make something that doesn’t fit neatly into...
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Viperactive, NGHTMRE - Earthquake
Read more . . . →NGHTMRE and heavy trap go together the way old friends do — you know what you’re getting and it’s still satisfying every time. Earthquake doesn’t try to reinvent anything and that’s kind of why it works. Viperactive brings something slightly harder and more mechanical to their side of the collaboration that gives the whole thing an edge NGHTMRE doesn’t always have on his own. The drop is immediate and unforgiving and that’s the point. There’s no slow build here that tricks you into expecting something different — this track announces what it is in the first thirty seconds and then...
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Ravenscoon, Gardella feat. AL Kapone - Pressure
Ravenscoon, Gardella & AL Kapone on WAKAAN — bass music from another planet. Exactly as chaotic as that sounds. Not for everyone. Very much for me.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict.
