Bass music
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| Cultural origins | Mid-2000s, United Kingdom |
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Bass music (or UK bass) is club music that emerged in the United Kingdom during the mid-2000s under the influence of diverse genres such as house, grime, dubstep, UK garage, R&B, and wonky.[1] The phrase "bass music" came into use as artists began ambiguously blending the sounds of these defined genres while maintaining an emphasis on percussive, bass-led rhythm.[2]
Bass music is sometimes confused with bassline or post-dubstep.[3][4]
Origins[edit]
The breadth of styles that have come to be associated with the term preclude it from being a specific musical genre. Pitchfork writer Martin Clark has suggested that "well-meaning attempts to loosely define the ground we're covering here are somewhat futile and almost certainly flawed. This is not one genre. However, given the links, interaction, and free-flowing ideas ... you can't dismiss all these acts as unrelated."[3] Dubstep producer Skream is quoted in an interview with The Independent in September 2011 as saying:
The word dubstep is being used by a lot of people and there were a lot of people being tagged with the dubstep brush. They don't want to be tagged with it and shouldn't be tagged with it – that's not what they're pushing... When I say 'UK bass', it's what everyone UK is associated with so it would be a lot easier if it was called that."[5]
In the United Kingdom, bass music, or UK bass has had major mainstream success since the late 2000s and early 2010s, with artists such as James Blake,[3] Benga, Example, Burial, Sophie Xeon, Zomby,[6] Chase & Status, Skream, TNGHT, Ash Bowles and Wretch 32.[7] The term "post-dubstep" has been used synonymously to refer to artists, such as Blake, Mount Kimbie and Fantastic Mr. Fox whose work drew on UK garage, 2-step, and other forms of underground dance music, as well as ambient music and early R&B.[8][9][10][11][12] Outside of nightclubs, bass music has mainly been promoted and played on internet radio stations such as Sub.FM and Rinse FM.[13][14]
References[edit]
- ^ Ryce, Andrew. "Bass / House". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
- ^ timi. "The Best UK Bass Music of 2012 (so far)". Salacious Sound. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ^ a b c Clark, Martin (4 May 2011). "Grime / Dubstep". Pitchfork. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
- ^ Richards, Sam. "The UK leads the way". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ Moir, Sam (13 September 2011). "Skream: "I want to make sure once this fad dies out, I'm still standing"". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 26 December 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
- ^ "Zomby: Ultra Album Review – Pitchfork".
- ^ Fitzpatrick, Rob (30 June 2011). "Example: 'I have a formula now'" – via The Guardian.
- ^ Aaron, Charles (4 March 2011). "10 Post-Dubstep Artists Who Matter". Spin.
- ^ Moore, Thad (12 July 2011). "SBTRKT adds to post-dubstep genre". The Daily Gamecock. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011.
- ^ Guidry, Jake (19 May 2011). "Blawan takes post-dubstep and UK house out of its comfort zone". XLR8R. Archived from the original on 2 September 2011.
- ^ "Fantastic Mr Fox (No 910)". The Guardian. 6 January 2011.
- ^ "A profile of James Blake – post-dubstep artist". BBC News. 6 January 2011.
- ^ Tidey, Jimmy (5 April 2008). "The Rise of Online Radio". Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ^ Clark, Martin (17 November 2010). "Grime / Dubstep". Pitchfork. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
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