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Woke up today needing MONSTROUS THUMPING BASS and basically nothing else. You know how it is. Already got Metal Box played to death and it's not even 1:30 yet. Checked the "Top 100 Basslines" thread but I do not want no rock and roll bullshit (broadly speaking) with my m. t. basslines today, or as little of it as possible anyhow. I know nothing of dub reggae but from what I've read I think it might do the trick. Or what about Jah Wobble/Invaders of the Heart? HELP. THANKS.

― zero, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

JUNGLIZM!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

BASIC CHANNEL
RHYTHM & SOUND

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Alternately pick up a King Tubby collection.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Gimme ARTIST NAMES & SONG TITLES for my *cough*illegaldownloading*cough* convenience please, I KNOW NOTHING OF JUNGLIZM OR WHATEVER YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, thank yooouuu.

― zero, (SOON TO BE EX-) indie fuxxor, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

King Tubby, check. ON IT. More.

― zero, (SOON TO BE EX-) indie fuxxor, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.archive.org/download/2005messiandread-skunkintheroom/10-king_george_warmonger_lighning_dub.mp3

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Rhythm & Sound - Mango Drive

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Download Dead Dred's "Dred Bass" and Marvellous Cain's "The Hitman" and Ray Keith's "Terrorist".

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

You can just slsk for "Miami Bass", and get plenty. Most probably catalogged by year. Post 1987 has multi-tonal basslines. Pre-1987 has monotones.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

OK, I just grabbed King Tubby's "Dub Fi Gwan" and it's pretty cool but I need OMINOUS and APOCALYPTIC. The Black Strobe remix of "Keine Lust" is kind of working for me at the moment. Other tracks suggested above are en route to my computer from out of the ether even as I type.

― zero, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

How about Curtis Mayfield, "If There's a Hell Below, We're All Gonna Go"? Massive bassline, and that song's about as apocalyptic as rock & soul ever got.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

"The Joint" - The Joint. Trust me.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Also, "Close Your Eyes (Optikonfuzion mix)" - Acen

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

I need OMINOUS and APOCALYPTIC

midimiliz - non standards

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

A few different flavours of speaker shaking goodness...

Basement Jaxx - Bongoloid
Field of Dreams - Exodus (The Lion Awakes)
El-B and Juiceman - Buck and Bury
Jah Warrior - Herbsman Anthem

― Graeme (Graeme), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Messiaen Dread's "King George Warmonger" -- YES TO THAT. Not overtly sonically Scary but certainly the most m. & t. of the few I've snapped up so far. NB: searching for "The Joint" is not going real well.

What I really want, I fear, is about six more albums' worth of stuff as similar as possible to the best of PiL's Metal Box basswise, i.e. "Albatross," "Swan Lake," and "Careering."

A weakish but mentionable near-miss from my existing, ha, collection: My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult's "A Daisy Chain 4 Satan." It is so datedly fucking cheesy, though.

Got some of that Midimiliz queued up, plus the Mayfield.

― zero, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

squarepusher "tundra"

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

breakage - "so mars"

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Wavetraxx - Das Boot 2003 (Shall & Rauch Sleichfahrt Mix)
Phil Kieran - I Love You (Beyer & Lenk Remix)
Thomas Krome - Electrobitch
Radioactive Man - Uranium
LFO - LFO

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Theo Parrish - Dance of the Drunken Drums

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Scott Grooves - Mothership Reconnection (Daft Punk Remix)

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Green Velvet - "Flash"

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha, right after starting "So Mars" in Winamp I began mentally composing a semi-mock-infuriated post a la "Is this some traditional joke on wannabe-ex-indie fuxx, or what part(s) of MONSTROUS and THUMPING do you NOT GET, WAAH" etc. Then at 1:50 into it: ah.

Somebody dissuade or encourage me re post-PIL Wobble. If the latter, include specifics -- a glance at AMG makes it seem unpromising and quickens the realization that I must look elsewhere, genre-wise, for Metal Box / Second Edition-style sounds.

― zero, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

"Apathy" by 1000 Homo DJs

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

RICHIE BOY & DJ KLASSE - MADNESS ON THE STREET!!!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

How about Curtis Mayfield, "If There's a Hell Below, We're All Gonna Go"? Massive bassline, and that song's about as apocalyptic as rock & soul ever got.
SECONDED! Fucking monster, that one! Huge influence on dub, too.

I also recommend 23 Skidoo's "The Gospel Comes to New Guinea" (ten minutes long, not a dull moment, very tense/ominous/apocalyptic) and the debatably even creepier "Porno Base" (or is it "Porno Bass"?). You won't be disappointed. Bigger bass sound the Metal Box, surely.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

bigger bass sound than, not the^

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Tim Wright - Searcher

And must second Radioactive man 'Uranium'.. His fabric mix cd is good if you're looking for bass heavy electro.

― Bn1, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

the Gap Band's "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"!

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

scorn - hedrake

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

The bassline on Omni Trio's "Renegade Snares" is certainly m and t. The Foul Play VIP Remix version particularly so, if memory serves...

― Bill A (Bill A), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

basically any speed garage circa 1997. (maybe especially the van helden remix of "spin spin sugar".)

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

I never liked that van Helden mix.

the Gap Band's "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"!
Don't forget "Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)" either!

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

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