All You Need is BASS

Canadian producers from the West have been killing it in 2013. With guys like Defunk, Fat Pat, Neighbour, Subvert, Smalltown DJs, Knight Riderz Mark Instinct, and the whole Tenpin Records crew holding it down in all forms of bass, it’s no surprise Western Canada has spawned another Beatport chart...

I’m stoked to showcase the new EP Into the  Labyrinth Dub from Kraddy and Heavyweight Dub Champions, because it is really good. The No Comply Dub track is worth the price of the EP alone, but unfortunately the only way to check it out is to go to iTunes and give a listen there. So in...

Crazy Daylight is an Australian bass producer, making sounds on the glitchier side of the bass music spectrum. Using a vocoder to add a retro pop feel to many of his tracks, Crazy Daylight has a sound that’s truly unique. In a world where many producers are using the same software and have...

On January 22, 2013, California producer Jason Chung (a.k.a. Nosaj Thing) released his follow up album to his critically acclaimed 2009 debut, Drift. Chung’s new release, entitled Home, contains some aesthetic similarities to its predecessor, but is an entirely new landscape of synthesized...

With their first live show on Nov 22, 2012 this fresh new dubstep/drumstep/rock infusused bass band is aiming for the charts. A collaboration formed when drum n bass producer Erb N Dub shared neighbouring studio space with a raw high energy punk band from Chatham named Underground Heroes. For...

Skeewiff are definitely not the newest kids on the block! These two have been rocking the funky Austin Powers / Anchor man jazz flute, lounge-hop breaks since the late 90s. With a ton of releases taking any party back to the timeless feel of a 60s or 70s, fusion party of funky big beat breaks...

What can be said of the powerhouse New Zealand duo that is The Upbeats? Since meeting in high school back in 2001, Jeremy Glenn & Dylan Jones have been collaborating ever since. Hustling hard under the monickers Terror Snake & Downie Wolf they then formed The Upbeats in 2004. With...

I could only shake my head when I first saw the tragic cell phone video of DJ Shadow unceremoniously booted off stage at a show in Maimi pop up on the web. The patrons of Miami’s Mansion Nightclub’s evening was cut short when DJ Shadow was informed by promoters he was playing...

After moving to L.A. at 17 for an acting career he was influenced by the sounds of glitch hop and was drawn to the genre’s avant-garde ability to express a story and convey emotions. Becoming an addict to the glitch hop sound he soon lead to experimenting in production and has blazed a trail...

One of my favourite producers I have discovered in the last year is Minouru. I can only describe him with one word. OMFGHYHT! Crossing genre’s of glitch hop, midtempo, funky breaks, dub step and electro swing there is an over arching blanket of quality to the sounds he creates. An...

Blaine Fowler is the strong silent type. If you were to pin any stereotype on him from first glance it would be contemporary emo. Sporting an upside down illuminated cross as the centre piece to his studio, it is obvious there is a slice of evil to his essence. But by listening to his audio [...]...

If you had seen me when I was 17, you would have used words like lanky, awkward and nerdy. While you may think similar things looking at Svenska, a 17-year-old producer from France, he has been busy nerding out on the computer in his mom’s flat dreaming of a distant club career. Starting his...