Bass & Beatz 4 Homeless Youth
Hey!!!
First off, thanks a lot to all of Ye who came through Bassnectar.net and checked out the new features, grabbed the music, etc.
I just got 5 new Bassnectar joints back from mastering today!!!! WOO HOO!!! Honestly i had to exercise some serious discipline to not just huck them right up onto the site as soon as i got them back! WHY WAIT!!!! I’m going to enjoy playing them over the next months tour first…give them the road test…
Speaking of road tests, the custom created PK Sound has crossed the border and is heading down to Wobble Factory headquarters… thats right our friends Ari, Jer, Jon and the whole squad of Canadians have merged with Dylan, Big Tony, and the California team to build a custom sound system, and we will be bringing it out on tour in 2009 like a pack of MAD PEOPLE!!!!!
So the point of this little post is i just came across a video that was developed in promotion of an event we will be at this weekend, alongside Pinback and Matisyahu, that benefits HOMELESS YOUTH IN SAN DIEGO.
Elemental Experience
Saturday May 2, 2009
Please check it out, or click here if you can’t see the video below:
the line up is pretty courageously eclectic, and i am honored to be pumping out thick musical frequencies at sunset outdoors this saturday…
Last time we were in San Diego was a right proper bassbath @ The Belly Up, and we thought is would be fun to come throw down at a kind of free form community event… Check out that video and if you feel like throwing down for a good cause, we’d love to see you out there.
After that its offfff tooo thaaaa raaaaces and we are on road tour for many nights, i’ll keep in touch online when possible.
And if i can get it past the “censors” i will drop some new bass flesh on the site for your hungry ear drums.
MUCH LOVE!
L
Superstylin’ Smashup
Having been a dedicated secret weapon of Bassnectar sets for many months, this little doozy is a mashup of Groove Armada’s “Superstylin” with the instrumental beats from “Art of Revolution”… full on heaving crush-core dubstep with a big room hook for that nice ‘blast from the past’ effect!
And yes, it’s a bootleg. Hopefully Andy and Tom won’t mind the props. Superstylin’ was first released in 2001 on their Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) album and features vocalist Mike Daniel (aka MAD). And 8 years later, its sound is still slammmmmming! Recently, Groove Armada dropped a new E.P. with Van She, The Twelves, and Mad Decent remixes. Check it.
Big thanks and appreciation for spreading the word:
“Arguably one of the filthiest producers alive takes on one of our all time favourite dancefloor mutilators. How could we not post this.” - Chrome Kids
“Bassnectar camp has unleashed a special bootleg of Groove Armada’s “Superstylin’” alongside their own instrumentals, and I must say, this shit is TOUGH!” - Rock the Dub
“I’m not usually that keen on mashups, especially when they involve dated songs such as this Groove Armada tune but fuck a duck, this seriously goes off.” – We Are Not A Rock Band
“This starts out pretty mellow and then a tyrannosaurus rex wobble comes in to take over the scene.” – Dubstepped
Also check out: DubStepMusic, DamageCult, DJ Cable, Get Weird Turn Pro, Doktor Krank, and Dancefloor Mayhem.
Up Late, Lost in Computers
spent all day recording an entire samba/batucada chorus line
end of the day theres 46 separate tracks of FULLY FRANTIC insanity…every sound and drum i could imagine. its ABSOLUTELY bezerk.
another 16 hour day in the labs, not even the slightest exxageration…gotsa make my time at home COUNT, cuz soon ill be out on the road goin CROSSEYED…and clinging on for dear life. amidst it all i had a free moment, and enjoyed quite a nice email from my sweet mom.
she set this to me:
at first i was thrown off by the title…but its SO precious
and then i found some more links:
wowzaaaaa….
we humans are FECKIN loco amazing
hopefully you will enjoy these links if you haven’t seen them already/
or even if you HAVE…there really isn’t much novelty lost on seeing
cute babies
crazy innocent, crazy alive, their universes so micro-centered and SO
authentic.
New Website
This website was founded back in 1998…or maybe it was 1997.
The plot was to focus on networking; to create a kind of hub for this sound i was hearing in my head.
My friend Volo & i geeked out endlessly with very crude html concepts, lots of free music. Back then i was experimenting with:
- slowing down drum & bass, or half-timing it into some kind of wierd hip hop.
- making downtempo feel heavier and more extreme
- using pschedelic bass noises in bizzare ways, almost like the vocals in death metal
- trying to take trance/techno records and make them sound less robotic.
- adding more live drummer feel to programmed beats
- adding more electronic music creativity to “rave music” (tape splicing, tweaking big old school patch bays and vintage modular synths..lots of physical manipulation of recording equipment)
- verbing lots of genres, basically. then re-verbing them again and again.
There was a really cool crossover scene in California at the time, for some reason i didn’t have a proper outlet for releasing music, so i kind of just gave it away, and focused on community: creating events, overseeing sound systems, just trying to bring the noise in a positive way, merging the punk rock DIY mindset with pretty much any sub-sect of counter culture that came along.
Anyhow, the website went through lots of transitions, and thanks to Jon Buril @ idiom lab, got a major update right around the time i released ‘Underground Communication’ on OM… the plan was to get way way way more political, and develop Bassnetwork as a kind of live discussion forum and news exchange. Other plans existed as well, but touring got so completely hectic and nonstop that 2 years flashed by and very little music got released, very little noise got made on the site, and only little bits of progress were made on bassnetwork, or any kind of multi-dimensional blog thing.
Meanwhile Myspace picked up and i ended up posting things there, but am always so weary of Rupert Murdoch, and just any kind of 3rd party machine…so Daysha came along, and with the help of several dozen bassnectar-ers (thanks directly to Elliott, Lia, Dave, Kalani and Ralf!) the reigns were basically handed over to rebuild a very expandable, automatable creature with vast potential in outreach, intra-webular development, and so forth. [daysha sez: majority of the site is open source, so uses technology that is free for all :]
So we are kind of launching this BETA test…it has a lovely new face, and minor updates and adjustments here and there, but really this is just kind of the nest, or the laboratory itself. Most of the features we have planned out are yet to be added and applied, but expect a LOT more activity both online and on the road, with this pulsing website as the central processing station.
I could go twitter about this, or facebook about it, or myspace about it, or email about it, but eventually it can all stream through here with loads of exclusive, direct music launches, multimedia packages, forum discussions, and real-time information exchanges.
It’s about to get hectic again with tour kicking off in May, and we will be not only pushing the new releases on Amorphous Music, but also getting a gang-load of follow ups through various channels set to spike, so as always stay tuned, and feel free to get in touch.
MUCH LOVE!
L
Easter Jam
Hello to All blog-lets and readers of womp
this is me today…
after posing shirtless on a rooftop with 4 BB gun rifles and a bike helmet for a cellphone photo shoot, i had the fortune to live vicariously by looking downward into the neighbor’s green lawn. I spent a few moments overlooking 3 mexican kids on an easter egg hunt, listening to their gorgeous voices and nostalgically feeling the mystique and excitement of my own lost childhood.
Later, after eating plantains, i went to the flea market and stopped to take a picture with this random woman, who was trying to sell cheap kitchen cutlery.
i nicknamed her several things, most accurately Esmerelda Javier Fernandez.
Viva E.J.F.
Super Stylin’ Smashup
Having been a dedicated secret weapon of Bassnectar sets for many months, this little doozy is a mashup of Groove Armada’s ‘Superstylin’ with the instrumental beats from ‘Art of Revolution’… full on heaving crush-core dubstep with a big room hook for that nice “blast from the past” effect!
