New Release – READY 2 RAGE!!!
THIS WEEK! Bassnectar.net has new sounds for your ears:
Take a ride on the tempo slide, into a kiddie-pool of utterly hard-core tearout basslines. Bassnectar & Jantsen have given the grinding swampmonster treatment to Product 01′s dancefloor bombdrop: “Ready 2 Rage.” It starts of with super stretchy freakshow dubstep, and dips down into that pelvic 90 bpm range with nintendo blips and squishy synths, then soars back up to a double time 70 bpm, we call it 140. Or you can throw away your calculators and just let your face melt…. mmmmm… face melts are fun. Get your face melted now in high quality:
BIG BOUNCE AND BIG UPDATE
Hello Blog-folk!
I remember 7+ years ago, i used to enjoy these incredible stints of WEEKS AT A TIME buried in the studio…banging out TUNES AND TUNES like Goo Trees Produce Goo, and like Freak-bugs procreate in the heat of spring…
So this past week has been a throwback to that…
Finished up the final touches on the next Bassnectar single “Cozza Frenzy”…made lots of progress on “Boombox”, finished (and potentially cleared the sample for) the remix of Mute Record’s ‘Fever Ray’ and then in one shiny day started and finished a remix for Malente & Dex alongside my buddy iLL Gates…its called “Lions” and it literally ROARS..so dope!
Just finishing up a session with the one called Zumbi, from Zion i, and about to dive into preparations for this weekends festival of oooooomf in Flagstaff, AZ. there is a WHOLE LOTTA HIP HOP on right before the nectardrop, including Aceyalone and Crown City Rockers… KA-BLOOOOOOOie!!!!
(just made me remember to say HOLY EFFFFFFFFF!!!! THANKS TO THE ATLANTA HEADS…we sold out the Masquerade! RAMMMM OUT! THANK YOU! And then the next night, Starscape was downright amazing…REALLY GOOD TIMES!)
But yeah, as usual, i digress. THE POINT OF THIS little blogarooski is about THE BIG BOUNCE FESTIVAL in Belden, CA: YOU DO NOT WANNA MISS THIS!
Are you an old school head who is always griping about how parties aren’t the same any more? You miss the freaks out in the woods? The full moon type of parties? …but maybe you wanna sleep in a cabin by day and rage at night?
Or maybe you dont wanna sleep, you just wanna day dream all weekend as you run wild in the forest?
Are you a bass freak who wants all tempos mashed together, and not in the mood to be dubstepped at for 14 hours straight, or anything-ed for 14 hours straight, but you DEFINITELY want to rock all tempos and styles?
Does the idea of renting out an entire mining town, Saloons and all, strike you as a ridiculously fun idea?
We got El Circo sound system AND the Wobble Factory, combined together for TOTAL FECKING OOOOMFDOM, 2 stages, the beach stage included (you know love playing in the river, you crazy kid!) aaaaaaaaand….
i’m doing 2 sets…potentially (if my geeezer ass lets me stay up) the second one will be sunrise sunday morning…super old school style…all the old dreamtempo favorites…all the sonic cream.
MMMMMMM
like musical acai.
i’ll be ramping up the week in Lake Tahoe working on beats at the BEACH, and getting all GIDDDDDDY!!!!
There are different grades of tickets, and you can go to the ticketing site and use the code “nectar” …in fact. HECK, i just got off the phone with Champain & Baycahn and they say lets do a give-a-way:
if you are even still reading this:
THE TENTH PERSON TO EMAIL: guestlist@bassnectar.net right now with “BIGBOUNCE” in the subject, you win a free pair of weekend passes…so Go Go Go!!!!!
Lotsa Love…much more madness coming up this summer…keep in touch!
-Lorin
MIDWEST – The Week In Review!!!
The Week in Review
Holy Hot Dammm, we just stormed through the Midwest like a tornado, and i want to recap. THANKS FOR SUCH AWESOME TURNOUTS EVERY NIGHT!
First off, Thursday night in St Louis…all ages. I start getting heads up from my tour managers that it is FULL ON blast to the past Rave-Days, and when i showed up there were literally hundreds of kids with glowing regalia, glow sticks, it was bananas. I got there as Mochipet went on, in his purple dinosaur costume, and it reminded me of when i used to work as Barney, The Purple Dinosaur, at little kids’ birthday parties in San Jose, back when i was in college. I always wanted to play a set in it, but it was sooooo hot inside that thing…there was no way.
So Mochipet is THE MAN, and his beats were off the chain. Then Dylan cranked up the Wobble Factory, we had the stage RAMMED with speakers and my eyeballs started to shake and my mouse stopped working cuz of the vibrations… kids went bonkers and it was an epic night.
BWAMP!!!!!
Onward to Lincoln, mu-fuckn Nebraskaaaa. First night kicking off their new venue, the Bourbon Theatre…it was sold out to the gills, just ramm ramm rammmmed and i was covered in sweat before i even started playing. My man Jesse Jackson was in the house and we got all crunk before the show, and after the show, and during the show, and i looked up and there was like a row of girls, 2 deep, along the front of the stage all humping the Wobble Factory Subs…i thought they were gonna get ejected, but the crowd kind of just merged from the dancefloor to the subs and we went with it. Super smooth and super fun!
Then Saturday i woke up in Minnesota, at the Bella Madre Festival… lots of hippies. It looked like a grateful dead lot… i was immediately nervous like what are we doing here, our sound is going to crush them! should i throw together some jam band remixes? i dont even like jam band music! But sure enough, these kids were off the hook… it was AWESOME!!!!! a good 4000 nutters all rammed up to the stage for the first song, and they throbbed along like pro-FESH-unnalzz! (it is a testament to how hard my kru raged both in lincoln and bella, cuz we got ZERO footage!)
We were about an hour and a quarter deep into the set when all of a sudden my leg hair stopped moving and i was like “Some Body Dun TURNED OFF THE SUBS!!!!” Next thing i know, Elliott comez up and sez “The Cops are here dood. They’re pissed.” Then i find out its the farmers surrounding the property and they WERE NOT HAVING IT.
So We were too loud for the crowd…but that crowd was off the hook, and WE WILL BE BACK!!!!! As soon as possible (heartfelt thanks for your open minds, can’t wait to get round 2 with you all!)
So we kept our fingers crossed that we would get out of there without getting pulled over on our way out, and sure enough we got through hassle free. I fell asleep and woke up outside Chicago at SUMMER CAMP.
Holy moly, that place was HOT, and packed.
We had to play this goofy stage sponsored by “Jaegermeister” which wouldnt have been that bad if they just put up a stage, but they LITTERED every freaking INCH of it with “Jeagermeister” banners…
i was thinking “Guys! Dont be so DESPERATE! you gotta tease us a little! One Banner is enough! you do not need 87!”
But sure enough there were 8 billion massive Jagermesiter signs….enough for every starving child in Ethiopia to turn into a blanket, but anyways, as we started playing the place just PACKED OUT, and i got super inspired…i had expected kind of a low turnout cuz it was the day time, but sure enough it was freaks as far as my little eyes could see.
At one point i felt like paying homage to the ever sarcastically ironic Stephen Colbert, and kind of endorsing Jaegermesiter….
AS IF THEY NEEDED NINE MILLION BANNERS…i mean we GOT THE POINT from the big overhead Jaegermesiter sign, guys! we dont need you to put up anymore.
So i kind of took the piss out of the whole thing on the mic
now i do not beleive in religious gods…or spirits, or anything phony like that. But i think the gods of jager crept into the stage to avenge themselves, because moments after i said that, i was bouncing around like a freakin hyena on the stage loosing my mind and WHAM!!!!
My whole table crashes to the floor, sound shuts of, computer smashes to the ground.
Of course, as always i had a CDJ there for back up, and i threw on a tune and laughed with the crowd, and we got everything back up and running and it was DANDY! kind of cute even.
Lasted us through the mega hot late night as well, and i thought we were home free.
Then Detroit. Monday night, closing out the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, MOVEMENT 2009, and my VERY FIRST SONG, the computer crashes.
i was just about to hit those folks with the WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE…oh LAWD i wanted to CRUSH DEMMMM!!!!!
What followed was one of the most voracious technical nightmares of my life, 2 laptops, a hardrive, 3 sound cards, literally FORTY FIVE MINUTES of pure insanity, blood racing, like WHAT! THE! F*CK! AM! I! GOING! TO! DO!>!>!?!
Nothing was loading, it was all just dead dead dead, and of course meanwhile, i have half the world’s photographers ALL over the stage, straight photo shooting me in COMPLETE scramble mode…
i dug into my bag, for a zip lock baggie of scratched up CDs i had not used since Burningman 2008… they were all mislabeled, out of order, just NONSENSE, and i start beatmatching away, which is a simple task really, but not where you are COMPLETELY FOCUSED on basically being LIVE TECHNICAL SUPPORT!
So as i mixed into tracks on the CD turntables, we hammered away, giving LIVE TECHNICAL SUPPORT STAGE SHOW 2009 to DEMF and i was literally at the end of my rope when POOF!
It all switched on, fixed up, the gods of Jager released my fromt heir punishing jaws and we proceeded to straight
SLLLLAYYYYY MICHIGAN’S FAAAAAACE
Oh Lord, that was so effing HOT!
I want to thank each and every creature and body for coming out, bouncing, jumping, screaming, surfing, diving, crashing, dancing, swatting, and completely soaking up the sound waves this past week
tomorrow night is Los Angeles, and then its basically 1 or more festivals a week until Fall.
LOTS OF LOVE TO YOU ALL!!!!!!
God Bless The Machines.
L
ROTHBURY
ROTHBURY
Hey all
So after SOOOOOOOOO MUCH uproar about Rothbury, and SO MANY questions, i figured i would send out a note, as to why Bassnectar is not at Rothbury this year.
I don’t think anybody in upper management (which is where most of these things are handled…while the artists either go bezerk in the studio or melt themselves down into throbbing human mush on the road) understood what i, and the Bassnectar crew, tried to explain: that there was an EXTRA ORDINARY demand for BN musica at Rothbury. I think they thought it was just another rad festival, and like most festivals, you play a year, you take one off, you play again the next year, etc.
I knew from the second the music started last year, with the Not In Our Name intro, that Rothbury was something REALLY special.
All throughout the fall, so many wonderful people spoke from the heart about their connections to Bassnectar through Rothbury, and i not only wanted to PLAY again in 2009, i wanted to set up a full on Bassnectar Zone, and bring all my favorite artists from around the world to throw down in one place.
I presented this idea last summer, and several times since, and i probably asked over 100 times to play at Rothbury ’09.
But when all was said and done, for MANY reasons (none of which are underhanded whatsoever!) it was decided (without me) that Bassnectar would sit out a year and CARUSHHH it in 2010 if it happened. We rammed up the Midwest with awesome dates (like Bella Madre, Summer Camp, Detroit Electronic Music Fesitval, and perhaps one of the most exciting events of the year for me: LOLLAPALOOZA!) and basically decided that although we had REALLLLLLLLLY (and i mean REALLLLLLLLY) begged to be there, it was not in the cards for ’09.
After the initial disappointment, i really genuinely let go: we have an absolute CRUSHING list of tour dates…almost every show is SLAMMED shoulder to shoulder with wonderful people, the fall plans are INSANE!!!! (more on that later) and at this point there are only 2 weekends off the entire summer, that i am trying super hard to KEEP OFF so i can have MUCH NEEDED studio time (even though i would have LOVED to have been able to say yes to Bisco!) before the Wildness of Fall comes slamming in, and before we know it will be New Years 2010!!!!!
So to everyone, all the bass-heads, fans, friends, and good people wondering “WHY ARENT YOU AT ROTHBURY!!!?” that is why.
And again, although we REALLLLLLY fuckin wanted to be there, there is SO much in life to be thankful for, and we are grateful and focused on the mega-intense future as it rides towards us on an inevitable wave of enthusiasm!!!!
MUCH LOVE AND RESPECT TO ALL!!
L
Tour Update – May 2009
Kaa-BLAM!
Hi-fives, hugs and headbangs to everyone who came through the site and checked out the new features, grabbed the music, and shared the news.
And thanks to all the West Coast freaks that joined us for Round 1 of the Art of Revolution tour. In the first week, well over 7000 bodies from San Diego to Bellingham got an 80hz jolt from the Wobble Factory’s PK sound rig.
Next up: returning home for back-to-back nights in San Francisco and Santa Cruz – extremely overjoyed to get back home and DROP. IT. …Then on to 6 sets in a row in the Midwest, culminating in MOVEMENT: The Detroit Electronic Music Festival, closing out the stage after Flying Lotus, Benga, Busy P and Afrika Bambaataa. Then we jet back down to LA to close out the month alongside our friends and family at The Do Lab. Lots more summer fests being confirmed this week, and setting up the next single for mid summer: BOOMBOX!
After an exclusive sneak preview on Bassnectar.net we are excited to announce the official release of one of our heaviest tunes ever: Art of Revolution, which features the legendary Jamaican vocalist Tappa Zukie and includes massive remixes by Diplo, Ghislain Poirier, 6 Blocc, and Product 01. The single is available in digital and vinyl formats at music.bassnectar.net, as well as through all major music outlets including Beatport, iTunes, Juno Download, and Amazon. The vinyl release will hit stores later next week with limited quantities available, so be sure to stop in and ask for the wax!
Stay tuned for more bootlegs, mixes, and original releases in the coming weeks!
Love and bass,
Bassnectar Labs
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.
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
More Free Passes+Free Bass=MMM
Hot freaking christ, if i could only announce who we are playing with on Friday fricking NIGHT!!!!! its killlliiiinnnnnnng me…probably the most exciting bill i have ever been on in *MY LIFE*, and i can’t say anything…>BLALAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
….
that was the sound of me trying to release the pressure by doing the macarena all over my bedroom and ripping down the curtains, turning them into a ceremonial robe and running down the street as my elderly neighbor tries to subdue me with a broom.
i’m not sure if i spelled it right but THAT was indeed the sound of it.
OK, so moving right along. 2 dope parties in Austin for SXSW, neither can be announced, and are closed to only sxsw pass holders, which is hard to deal with, but it is what it is (and its never what its not) so if yu got passes, get yer asssesz in please! (IF NOT, we got some biiiiiGGGGG plans for Texas this year, and will announce this summer and it will be all access…remain tuned, oh my droogies and bass-addicts)
The good news, is that, round 2 with Euphonic Conceptions (more like round 547) is set to DETONATE in mega-fine Athens, GEORGIA, after STS9 this SATURDAY NIGHT< March 21.
The music matters massive (known in underground gear circles as M3) is transforming the Athens Arena into vibrating bassline fun-house to acheive MELTDOWN after the 3rd and final set of the sound tribe boyz @ their sold out theatre runnnn.
MMMM HMMMMMMMM…i think we drop zem bomz around 2 or 2:30am and:
THATS RIGHT, WE GOT 10 FREE PASSES TO GIVE AWAY!
so the first 5 people to email guestlist@bassnectar.net with:
in the subject line: HAAAAAH! SSSTTTT! ATHENS!
in the body of the email: Your FULL NAME as it appears on your ID
will recieve a pair of free passes and will join the ranks of the brave and the foolish, the obsessed and the succulent, the never-ending and the over-the-topping….
i could go on, but you probably stopped reading long ago
I AM THE ANTI-TWITTER!!!
or maybe im just afraid of 140 characters or less.
UGGGG!!!
how will i ever squeeze it all down to that?
i can’t say it’s on my list of things to do.
but enough about me, moving on to you
SEE YOU SOON
L
Art of Revolution Release & Spring Tour
Bassnectar announced his 2009 Spring tour in promotion of his latest single release, Art of Revolution. Look for Bassnectar live at clubs and festivals throughout North America this spring and summer including a headlining performance at the 2009 Lollapalooza music festival.
Art of Revolution is a mega-throbbing dubstep anthem pulsing with double time energy and features the legendary Jamaican vocalist Tapper Zukie. The single, released through the artists Amorphous Music imprint, includes remixes by Diplo, Ghislain Poirier, 6 Blocc, and Product 01.
Tracks are available for purchase through the Bassnectar store as high-quality DRM-free MP3 and FLAC versions prior to the single’s launch through Beatport and other online distributors on May 12, 2008. A subsequent vinyl release of Art of Revolution will follow through a partnership with Groove Distribution in the US.
More tracks and packages to follow hot on this track’s heels, stay tuned…
Also, check in with podcast.bassnectar.net throughout the spring for more singles and bootlegs to drop…
April will be spent deeeeeeeeeep in the studio mashing out ten million musical projects, remixes, new tunes, new material and techniques for the live set, and just generally going BUCK WILD with as much sound as possible. Amorphous Music is getting an ultra redevelopment to launch this summer, so we are all tingling with excitement about the new releases to come.
The Art of Revolution tour launches on May 1st and features custom-built PK-Sound System enhancements for larger-than-life audio courtesy of The Wobbly Factory. We are also working with a community of activists to generate involvement in local issues that pertain to each city along the tour route.
Please join us on the wild road:
May 2 – Elemental Experience – San Diego, CA
May 4 – HopMonk Tavern* – Sebastapol, CA
May 5 – Red Fox Tavern* – Eureka, CA
May 6 – Stillwater* – Ashland, OR
May 7 – McDonald Theatre** – Eugene, OR
May 8 – The Crystal Ballroom* – Portland, OR
May 9 – The Showbox* – Seattle, WA
May 10 – The Nightlight* – Bellingham, WA
(Vancouver date TBA) – Vancouver, BC
May 15 – 103 Harriet – San Francisco, CA
May 16 – The Catalyst – Santa Cruz, CA
May 23 – Bella Music Fest – Geneva, MN
May 24 – Summer Camp – Chillicothe, IL
May 25 – Detroit Electronic Music Fest – Ferndale, MI
May 29 – Henry Fonda Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
*Featuring Random Rab
**Featuring Gift of Gab (Blackaliscious), and Random Rab
Stay tuned for lots more info and details,
MUCH LOVE FROM BASSNECTARLAND
Win Free Tickets
Thanks so mucking FUCH to everyone who threw down so much energy in
colorado this past week. Each and every show was wall to wall freaks
and such a mixture of luscious and ballistic.
Here is a short edit from some of the video shot from stage and front of house:
Now onwards….most dates have been confirmed for the Spring Run in
May, West Coast Fiasco, and will be announced shortly… as always
presale tickets at tickets.bassnectar.net
i hear that there was an 8.50$ ticket surcharge on all tickets in
Denver (not on our site) but i APOLOGIZE for that…i just think that
is ridiculous quite honestly. With whatever tickets we are allowed to
sell at the bassnectar site i will always make sure it stays low….but
speaking of tickets:
This weekend we are honored to be a part of the Ophishal afterparty at
the Norva…from what i understand something near 12 billion people
(estimated) are descending on hampton, and we aim to squeeze as many of
em as possible into the Norva FRIDAY NIGHT. Alongside EOTO &
Orchard Lounge, with loads of augmented sound, this event will sell tha
HECK out, but here is your chance to win a free pair of tickets.
THE FIRST 5 PEOPLE TO EMAIL GUESTLIST@BASSNECTAR.NET
AND TYPE “WOMP NORVA” IN THE SUBJECT AND YOUR FULL NAME IN THE BODY OF THE EMAIL WILL WIN A FREE PAIR OF TICKETS.
Please note…you are only confirmed if you recieve a direct
confirmation email back from guestlist@bassnectar.net, saying whatsup,
and giving you the run down.
The next night we are flash out to Colombia, Missouri. We played there
for this first time last fall, on a Monday night, and the venue was
squashed to high heffen with freaks spilling out the windows.
i even personally got busted sneaking kids in the back door (ooops!)
so anyhow, we are moving up to the Blue Note this Saturday, and i know there’s lots of you driving in from out of town, STL, Lawrence, Lincoln, etc.
hit up guestlist@bassnectar.net
THE FIRST 5 PEOPLE TO DO SO with “BLUE WOBBLE” IN THE SUBJECT, AND YOUR FULL NAME IN THE BODY OF THE EMAIL WILL WIN A FREE PAIR OF PASSES.
Please note…you are only confirmed if you recieve a direct
confirmation email back from guestlist@bassnectar.net, saying whatsup,
and giving you the run down.
Also, if you are still reading this, i have a movie reccomendation.
THE BATTLE IN SEATTLE is a fucking brilliant movie, bringing to life the real events that transpired during the WTO protests in Seattle, Washington. Many personal friends were involved in this and although the movie got crap reviews (being criticized for the exact same thing that Slum Dog Millionaire was praised for) it is an exceelent flick, and a wickedly inspirational reminded of whats really up.
THANKS ALL!
SEE YOU SOOON FOR ANOTHER BLAST!!!!!
L
