Bass Anthropology presents a surplus of forward-thinking bass music that continues to propel itself into spiraling worlds of fluid abstraction.
IDMf Beat Tapes sheds a half-dozen bass entities without spilling over into saturated or pretentious mainstream terrain. Keeping themselves firmly planted just beneath the soil, Bass Anthropology forages into tunnels of low-end that is centralized around petrified rhythms. EatTheFood exhibits flowing chants on “Still There, Haunting the Roads” with a danceable dubstep progression as Focalized contributes a brooding intensity of glitch-hop slices on “Be Aware”—fans of early Witchman and Scorn will appreciate. Ginkool’s “Ways” is a highlight of tribal breaks and level bass as is Pæga’s “Summer’s Gone,” albeit with an ethereal rumbling of melodic sparks and minimized flare. Milliway’s “Whole lotta Wub”—minus its lazy track name—pushes through ~scape inspired scrapping and rolling tumbleweeds. Qianta—not to be mistaken with Enig’matik’s Quanta—shears claps, bass’n clicks and slight distortions in a brisk 90-seconds. Bass Anthropology presents a surplus of forward-thinking bass music that continues to propel itself into spiraling worlds of fluid abstraction.
Bass Anthropology is available on IDMf Beat Tapes. [Soundcloud release page]
