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Cat. No.:SESHDCD240

Title Bassbin Sessions
Subtitle The Heaviest Bass, Breaks & Beats
Artist Various
Format: Double CD
Barcode: 698458624024
Playing Time:Over 2 hours

Where better to start than the heady days of the mid- to late ‘90s when US house don Armand Van Helden and a new generation of UK garage producers were looting jungle’s big basslines and Todd Edwards’ skippy take on US garage to mould a much darker dancefloor hybrid which a fickle media branded “speed garage”. Despite the tag creating an overblown fad which inevitably petered out in the mainstream spotlight, you can’t keep a good bassline quiet and 4/4 has continued to thrive on dancefloors – old skool nights are packed in London and Northern UK labels like Sheffield’s Reflective continue the UK garage tradition with a bass-led update of Double 99, TJR and 187 Lockdown’s blueprint.

We also feature some of the dons of drum & bass, when bold experiments in double-speed beat trickery gave us classics like Goldie’s ‘Timeless’ album and Talkin’ Loud’s brilliant jazz-inflected projects with Bristol’s Reprazent crew. And, of course, your bassbin wouldn’t be happy without some full-pelt chunky breaks. Enter the Finger Lickin’ crew for a selection of funky powerdrivers, West country specialist Functional, regular purveyors of murky, bottom-heavy growlers, and a Daddy label of the scene, Botchit & Scarper, who unleashed many an early classic by Aquasky, BLIM, Freq Nasty and more.

Add in some heavy dancehall dub, some Detroit-inspired Ghetto Tech, hip hop hybrids and a famous beer ad bassline and you have Bassbin Sessions, all puffed up and ready to ruck. And please don’t file it next to ‘70s Soul or Chilled Beats in your Sessions collection – trust us, they won’t stand a chance.

CD 1

1. Goldie presents Metalheadz - Inner City Life
Having cut his (gold) teeth as a respected graf artist in the Midlands, released singles on Reinforced and set up his own Metalheadz label by ’94, Goldie became the first superstar of drum & bass with this one, produced with Moving Shadow’s Rob Playford. Eery symphonic touches and Diane Charlemagne’s soaring vocals combine for a truly groundbreaking epic which remains a true anthem of the genre.

2. Jungle Brothers - Jungle Brother (Urban Takeover mix)
In the mid-‘90s, drum & bass don Aphrodite carved his own furrow, releasing a stream of jump-up tracks knitting together big basslines with rolling beats and all manner of cut-up hip hop and reggae soundbites. His split-tempo take on the lead track from the Jungle Brothers ‘Raw Deluxe’ album became one of the biggest crossover drum & bass hits of 1998.

3. Roni Size / Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag
Bristol’s finest came of age with his Mercury Prize-winning ‘New Forms’ album in ’97 having grafted with the Full Cycle crew for a good six years previously. This one packed plenty of suspense and a famous hanging double bass lick and the video became a classic too, featuring groundbreaking time motion techniques and the shiny steel of Toronto’s city district as its backdrop.

4. Krust - Re-Arrange (DJ Die remix)
Another Bristol genius, key player behind Full Cycle and a brilliantly funky and intelligent producer, Krust followed Roni Size with his own jazz-inspired set on Talkin’ Loud in 1999, ‘Coded Language’. Partner-in-crime Die supplied this belting remix for one of the singles from it.

5. Wookie - Scrappy
Jason Chue’s genre-bending debut album emerged from the Soul II Soul studios in 2000 and, in-keeping with the open-minded Funki Dred approach, the set mixed in all manner of latin, soul and reggae touches. Whilst his crossover success alienated the hardcore garage contingent at the time, this heavyweight, choppy instrumental still became an enduring club record for a huge range of DJs.

6. Double 99 - RIP Groove
This one arrived like a two-headed bass beast on garage label Ice Cream in 1997. Taking the lead from Armand Van Helden’s bassline remixes, RIP Productions’ Tim Deluxe and Omar Adimora helped create an all-new UK sound using woozy time-stretching techniques and a sped-up Salsoul vocal line. Still rinsed weekly on London’s pirate transmitters.

7. Sticky ft. Ms Dynamite - Booo! (EZ Special mix)
Before finding superstardom, Ms. Dynamite built her craft with So Solid Crew and on pirate station RAW FM before hooking up with producers Sticky when they spotted her rocking a crowd at a Central London club. ‘Booo!’ became one of the big garage anthems of 2000 and filled floors for a good year before its major label release on ffrr. “It had a dance flavour that garage did not have at that time,” remembers Ms. D.

8. Zinc - People4
Another genre-breaker, this time from Bingo Beats label boss Zinc, one of the major international stars of breaks culture. 2004’s ‘Faster’ album was over two years in the making, more heavy mood music than pure drum & bass and ‘People4’ was an uncategorisable highlight with its big breaks, spooky pads and booming depth-charge bassline.

9. Leftfield - Phat Planet
Now firmly implanted into the public psyche as the rumbling backdrop to the Guinness ‘White Horses’ ad, this one was a thunderbolt from the genius minds of Leftfield’s Paul Daley and Neil Barnes. First road-tested at their Shifting Gears club night, the growling electro of ‘Phat Planet’ became one of the highlights of their ‘Rhythm & Stealth’ album in ‘99.

10. Tayo Meets Precision Cuts Downtown - Breakbeat Girl
Tayo’s CV matches anyone from the breakbeat elite. From starting as a drum & bass DJ, he set up the seminal Friction night with Adam Freeland and Rennie Pilgrem at London’s Bar Rumba and is now an ambassador for funky breaks at clubs and festivals worldwide. Here’s one of his recent “dread breaks” outings complete with old skool rave stabs and a nice twisty acid synth line.

11. Aquasky vs. Masterblaster ft. Ragga Twins & Co Ge - All In Check
From early music on Moving Shadow, drum & bass trio Aquasky added their Masterblaster alter ego as a tag for their forays into breakbeat. This funky monster with the rave scene’s favourite dancehall twins, Flinty Badman & Deman Rocker, became a jump-up favourite from their 2002 ‘Beat The System’ album for Botchit & Scarper.

12. Dreadzone – Here We Go
The master practitioners of dubby electronica, festival favourites Dreadzone are now on their fifth album after over 10 years in the business. This tidy groover sees Greg Dread, Ben Balafonic and the crew team up with Terminalhead’s MC Spee over an infectious dancehall riddim with some subtle bhangra touches.

13. T Power ft. Blade - Dangerous (album mix)
A key player with partner Shy FX when early drum & bass was first experimenting with ambient and jazz fusions, T Power’s roots nevertheless lay in early ‘80s hip hop. Here, he teams up with legendary maverick UK MC Blade and applies the breaks to great effect.

CD 2

1. Todd Terry ft. Martha Wash & Jocelyn Brown - Somethin' Goin' On (Loop Da Loop mix)
A warm, cosy funky house number from 1997 gets hauled down a long, dark tunnel by Nick Dresti a.k.a. Loop Da Loop for a ferocious bassline garage assault. These days, Dresti plies his trade as Space Cowboy for Norman Cook’s Southern Fried label.

2. Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage mix)
Van Helden blew dancefloor doors wide open with a string of seminal remixes in 1996. Tori Amos’ ‘Professional Widow’ and CJ Bolland’s ‘Sugar Is Sweeter’ both featured driving garage-inspired beats and enormous basslines that transformed clubland at the time. This one covered similar territory, another masterpiece of uncompromising dub dance that still packs a solid punch.

3. Drumatic Twins - Rock Steady
Legends! Old skool hardcore fans will remember Nick Slater and Lanx from their days as Shades Of Rhythm. As the Drumatics, they landed their new breaks spaceship on planet Finger Lickin’, courtesy of friend and collaborator Lee Coombs. ‘Rock Steady’ is a huge party-rocker, welding back-in-the-day MC-ing and Bambaataa-style electro around some super-chunky bass and beats.

4. Soul Of Man - Dirty Waltzer
Despite hectic day jobs as Finger Lickin’ label boss and the label’s illustrator and artwork designer, Soul Of Man’s Justin Rushmore and Jem Panufnik helped pioneer the house breaks sound and have become world-renowned DJs as Soul Of Man. ‘Dirty Waltzer’ is one of their calling cards with its dirty breaks, bouncy bass and scary sirens.

5. Plump DJs - Creepshow
The ultimate superstar party-rockin’ DJ duo step up. Since giving breakbeat a jolt with their funky jump leads when they first appeared in 1999, The Plumps have since played to 17,000 in Sydney and had a track featured on a long-running Japanese Levi’s ad. This one samples up the horns from Kool & The Gang’s ‘Rated X’ for a cavernous bassbin classic.

6. Tom Real vs. Rogue Element - Resistance 06
Emerging from the long-running Exeter breakbeat night Beatz & Bobz, Tom Real has since unleashed a series of heavy duty productions from his rural sonic bunker. Here he teams up with regular studio partner Ben Medcalf to update their big breaks anthem ‘Resistance Is Futile’ from 2003 into a hard ‘n’ funky tech breaks workout.

7. C83 ft. Tamra - Twisted Logic (Kraymon remix)
Named after their favourite year, 1983, the electro heyday of Hashim, Cybotron, Man Parrish et al, C83 are veteran jungle producer Sam Gordon and his cousin Jon Guntrip. Here, hotly tipped vocalist Tamra Keenan provides the haunting vocals and Bristol breaks don Kraymon twists things up in the mix.

8. An-Ten-Ae & Bass Nectar - California Sunshine
With DJ sets built around self-styled “Freakbeat”, a hypnotic blend of funk-driven bassline breaks, 2-step and drum & bass, West coast DJ Lorin a.k.a. Bass Nectar is one of the biggest bass spinners Stateside. Here he teams up with fellow Bay Area DJ An-Ten-Ae for a serious slice of horror dub. Watch out for that mad chuckling too. Mummy!

9. Slyde - Vibrate To This (Trouble Soup! Remix)
An intriguing meeting of the minds of dance music vets Robin 12Tree and scratch DJ and breaks producer Jason Laidback, Slyde keep the funk firmly in their beats. This one features Jamaican MC Lady Posh and gets a thumping tech re-work from Italian producer crew Trouble Soup! Gyrate to this!

10. Fluke - Switch (Marco Bellini & Val Weller Bosomania Club mix)
These Beaconsfield boys have seen it all, from Balearic hit ‘Philly’ in 1990 to taking dance music live as a band in ’91 way ahead of their time. They returned in 2003 with their chunky prog house vibe intact - this remix by Italian ex-punk Marco Bellini and Val Weller pays a saucy tribute to Russ Meyer’s equally chunky Super-Vixens in its title.

11. DJ Shadow - Right There (Tokyo Ghetto Tech remix)
Part of a collection of remixes of Shadow’s ‘Six Days’ album released in Japan, KZA from Tokyo’s Force Of Nature drops a serious slice of spacey booty-rockin’ electro with lashings of acid bass. “Ghetto Tech” originates with the new generation of Detroit producers injecting plenty of bounce and bassline into the Motor City’s traditional techno formula.

12. Si Begg - Try To Work It Out
An early outing from Leicester’s quirky techno genius from one of a series of tribute releases to Botchit & Scarper label boss Vini Medley, who died prematurely in 2000. This one stands the test of time, layering waves of menacing bass over a super-funky break.

13. Rennie Pilgrim & Klaus - Brother Analogue
The Godfather of the original “nu skool” breaks sound, Rennie Pilgrem teams up with Klaus “Heavyweight” Hill and closes us out with his trademark precision beats over an insistent bassline, also taken from the Vini Medley tribute project. Pilgrem runs the revered TCR label and has doggedly kept breakbeat live on-stage through a series of non-nonsense band projects.

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Bass Bin Sessions ft Jungle Brothers 2Disc CD NEW

Various Artists

Sessions

2006

0698458624024

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