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Chozen - Get Em Up
Read more . . . →There’s a sound about thirty seconds into “Get Em Up” that I genuinely can’t identify, somewhere between a detuned brass stab and a garbage truck reversing, and it becomes the entire hook. Chozen builds the track around it, and by the first drop you’re nodding along to something that has no business being catchy. This is WAKAAN’s whole thing done right: bass design that sounds broken on purpose, wet and rubbery and mixed to rattle the cheap parts of your car. The second drop switches the groove into a lurching half-time thing that feels like the track tripping down the...
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HerShe, Sportmode - PRETTY GIRLS
HerShe and Sportmode's 'PRETTY GIRLS' struts before it knocks you flat. Mean, nasty bass music with real swagger and zero apologies.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Of The Trees x Tape B - Brackish
Of The Trees and Tape B made something that sits between pretty melodic design and absolutely filthy bass. Crank it on a real system.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Sully, SOH SOH - Pedal
Read more . . . →Last of the Sully run, and “Pedal” with SOH SOH might be my favorite of the three. Where “Temperature” leaned vocal and the “Disconnect EP” went long-form, this one is pure rhythmic mayhem, a collaboration that sounds like two producers daring each other to go harder. The groove is relentless, built on a bassline that bounces and stutters in ways that shouldn’t lock together but absolutely do. SOH SOH brings a slightly different flavor to Sully’s world and the friction between the two styles is exactly what makes the track pop. It’s playful and heavy at the same time, which...
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Sully - Disconnect EP
Read more . . . →If “Temperature” got you curious about Sully, the “Disconnect EP” is where you go to fall all the way in. A full EP instead of a single track means you actually get to hear the range, and Sully uses every minute of it. There’s heavy, contorted bass design here, but also quieter, more textural moments that prove this is a producer thinking in terms of a body of work rather than just chasing the next drop. WAKAAN gives artists room to be genuinely weird and Sully takes the invitation and runs straight off the map. Each track flows into the...
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Sully, Chozen feat. Nat James - Temperature
Read more . . . →WAKAAN is Liquid Stranger’s label and it’s where some of the weirdest, most forward-thinking bass music lives, so when Sully and Chozen show up with a Nat James vocal on top, you pay attention. “Temperature” is exactly the kind of off-kilter, future-leaning bass that the WAKAAN crowd eats alive. The production is glitchy and tactile, full of sounds I genuinely can’t identify, and Nat James glues it together with a vocal that keeps the whole experiment human. There’s a real song buried under all the sound design, which is the part a lot of experimental producers forget to include. The...
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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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Chozen b2b Noetika - Live Red Rocks Set
Read more . . . →Live b2b set at Red Rocks from Chozen and Noetika and yes Red Rocks is always going to make anything sound better but this would hold up anywhere. The WAKAAN experimental bass sound hits different in an amphitheatre carved into a Colorado cliff face. More like this SubDocta, Wubbaduck - Wobble Dance Caster - Voodoo Liquid Stranger, Avello - Crush
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Liquid Stranger, Dr. Fresch, Bok Nero - Bass Shake
Read more . . . →Three producers with three different approaches to bass music, and “Bass Shake” is the sound of those approaches colliding in the most productive way possible. Liquid Stranger is the anchor here — his production philosophy has always been about making bass music with actual emotional stakes rather than just weight. Dr. Fresch brings a grimier, club-ready edge that keeps things from getting too cerebral. Bok Nero’s contribution is harder to isolate but the track sounds different with all three involved in a way that actually matters to how you hear it. The drop on this thing is significant. “Bass Shake”...
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SubDocta, Wubbaduck - Wobble Dance
Read more . . . →WAKAAN delivering whatever you’d call this. “Wobble Dance” with Wubbaduck is the kind of track that makes “experimental bass” feel like an understatement. More like this Dirt Monkey feat. Mississippi The Truth - Marshmallows Liquid Stranger, Dr. Fresch, Bok Nero - Bass Shake Chozen b2b Noetika - Live Red Rocks Set Buy / stream this track →
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