Rolling UK Bassline Thread 2k8

smugpolice too, a b-line blog you don't have to be aware of being run by a bloke seriously calling himself 'continuum' to steal from.

Here's TS7's "Stone Island" which I talked about briefly in my 2007 thread:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/66005616b140c1/

"Also check out the awesome “Stone Island”, which includes eerie choral vocals and a bizarre synthetic flute solo."

It reminds me a bit of Low Deep grime instrumentals from back in the day.

guh i JUST downloaded that ej 16 tape just for that!! 48 minutes of rapidshare waiting now cos of you! i'm a busy man!

ooh that is jaunty flute - lowdeepish 4real. he really did fall right off the map didnt he, v strange.

course, that ghosts n goblins miniphase of grime was noncoincidentally also the brief period of time when it looked like grime was finally opening up to the rest of the uk - lowdeep and imp batch were from er, luton and milton keynes respectively, i think

rtc, did you recommend Ghetto's "There Like (Oh Oh)" to me? It's like a grime track secretly about bassline rather than a grime-bassline crossover track if that makes sense...

If you didn't recommend it to me I'll upload it.

for the curious, here's cameo's 1xtra year-end mix from a couple of weeks ago. soz for the messyness, couldnt be bovd to tidy up

http://www.zshare.net/audio/66008758aa85b0/
http://www.mediafire.com/?13ic2g21l9y

Cameo Intro 1
T2 – Heartbroken
Benga & Coki – Nite
DJ Cheeksta – Baby
Virgo – Something Real
TS7 – Smile
T2 – Why
TRC feat Zoe – Trickin' Me
DJ Q – Shotta's (Mr V Remix)
DJ Narrows – Saved Soul (DJ Q Remix)
DJ Denver – Love Thang
JTJ Productions – It's You
Davinah – Runaway (TRC Remix)
T2 – Hey
H2O feat Platinum – What's It Gonna Be
Gemma Fox – Might Be
DJ Murkz – Baby Boy
TRC – Why Can't I?
X5 Dubs – Nicole's Groove
TS7 – Flip Flop
Dre vs Murkz – Manny Man
DJ Q & MC Bonez – You Wot
Delinquent feat Kcat – My Destiny
Moonshine – Emotions
DJ NG – Tell Me
Apple – Untitled

yeah gimme plz! it def wasnt me, i can't stand ghetto.

Ha ha I just checked and it turns out it's from 2005. Turns out it was the one grime track that some chancer sharing lots of bassline had. Love those moments of implicit critique.

Not really worth uploading on its own. I'll find something else to couple it with.

is that off limewire? i must say, having to draw for the limewire again instead of slsk and blogs is when you know something is right again in the world.

Yes. Also record companies seem to have grown tired of flooding Limewire with fake versions of tracks, hooray. Not that anyone would bother doing that with bassline tracks.

Here is Ghetto ft. Juvee, Cyko & Gappy - "There Like (Oh Oh)" (warning folks, this ain't bassline):
http://www.zshare.net/audio/660139136c8b62/

Here is TS7 - "Suntan" - great disembodied diva cries of anguish and abandonment:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/660161181291de/

The great thing about these bassline tracks is they're so quick to upload!

gappy ranks does a good alozade impression. who knew?

so ok, sorry already bassline, but i believe it is u+k we all get cracking on this 'tell me' by dj ng & baby katy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk3LjhpOKd0

'cure & the cause' again, certainly, but ahh so TAUT

the way it builds and builds to mankind's doom behind baby katy's curled-lip passive-aggressiveness ("it's kind of obvious, it's kind of obvious" - slowburrrrn) is a bit like the shadow growing larger than its nosferatu

I am gonna have a go at not-marooning those posts, honest, it's just everything on that thread is kinda marooned at present... The Addictive & T2 one is bloody amazing, proper never-heard-anything-like-this-in-ever stuff.

(Your support for Yves La Rock, however, bemuses me.)

hah i never said yves la rock wasnt rubbish! but it is important that it exists right now, seeping steel drums and soca into the minds of the youth.

dj ng helpfully breaking it all down on his myspaz (listen to his tunes, tres interesting):

WHAT IS THE 'CAKE CONCEPT'?
This ideology can be analogised with a concept of URBANCE, known as 'THE CAKE CONCEPT' easily explained & represented with NG’s analogy of baking a ‘musical cake’ which breaks down as follows…

Some people may like egg boiled, while some may not like it scrambled? Some might like egg soft-boiled but not hard-boiled, whilst some may dislike the ‘taste’ of egg altogether! However by mixing and baking a rich, delicious recipe for a cake, then packaging and presenting it appropriately (to those that didn’t like and wouldn’t consume it), NG believes that he can make individuals eat his ‘cake’ despite including ‘egg’ as a main ingredient for the cakes recipe. He believes this attitude may be reflected with music alike.

Tamzin is BIG

beautiful girl too, let's not make any weight jokes...

just listening to the latest stuff on X5 Dubs myspace (they really should've imposed img width limits here - pages are so fucked up) inc a calypso-ish 'what can i do' and an edit of alicia keys 'no one' tho nothing really standing out

T2/Addictive tune for anyone who's not heard it: http://www.zshare.net/audio/70126153623aee/

So, why are these tunes so short? Is it because everyone uses laptops to DJ so can re-edit on the fly?

cos everyone is getting them off smugpolice?

someone recommend me a killer bassline mix to buy/download plz.

apparently craig david is doing a bassline track with t2. which would probably be good i reckon, but a bit of a pisstake after all these years of craig going on about how hes more than 'just garage' etc.

This ain't exactly rolling is it.

Paleface is doing Rinse 05 - is that the first official comp then? I really want this to be amazing. Here's the tracklisting - 40 tracks! Though that kinda works with bassline.

Shut Ya Mouth Ill Mana
Begging Paleface feat. Joy & $tush
Intent 2 Feel Wittyboy
Dejavu Mr Figz feat Charlean Dance
Bullet (VIP) Dub Melitia
Brighter Day Rekless
Shank Yaself Jalla
On My Way Burgaboy feat. BM & Screama
Think About You (Keynos Refix) Wittboy & Pyper feat. Kyla
Bongo Jam Paleface
Lost Right Here Paleface feat. Sofia
Future Dub Melitia
Karma Dexplicit
Junior Riddem T.R.C
Stomp Ill Mana feat. P-Money
Dutty Bwoy Mr Hatter
Hypnotik Mr V
Selecta Paleface feat. Viper
I'm In Love Sticky feat. Young London
Chocolate Fingaz
Dollar Sign (Dubplate) Ill Mana feat. $tush
Cape Fear Jalla
Wobbler Part 3 T.R.C feat Trilla & Asher
Speakerbox (Remix) Dub Melitia
Are You Ready Sticky feat. Sym Symi & Creed
Headache DS1
Face It Caliber feat. Teresa
Who You Fucking Laughing At Ben Joel
Be Without You TS7 feat. Nana
25 17 Keynos
Make Up Your Mind Paleface feat. Shavana
Get Ya Tits Out Wittyboy
Free Ben Joel feat. KT
Punishment GS & Krissi B
Magical DJ Stylez feat Yee-Ling
Voicemail Paleface feat. Gemma Fox
I Wanna Dance Mr Blackfinga feat. QD
Oh No Krissi B feat. Marvin Brown
Joy Paleface feat Kat Blu
Celebrate Life Brasstooth

there have been loads of bassline comps doing the rounds (and the rinse one looks great!) - the ministry of sound one and the came one have some stellar moments but my favourite is dj apostle presents the elements of bassline, handily divided into mc mix/vocal mix/dub mix

That MoS bassline one is really good.

Woah that DJ Apostle one looks fabulous. I like how T2 has this new trick of big, ostentatiously fluffy vocal sections and then the big drop.

And I see that my predictions w/r/t schaffely interludes taking over proved to be correct.

:-( I should have known that the zero absence of a profile for bassline over here didn't count for much - I'd never heard of a Ministry of Sound comp before now.

bassline hasn't really taken over the charts like i thought it would here tbh...'heartbroken' and 'what's it gonna be?' were huge of course but 'gonna be mine' flopped, 'my destiny' and 'daddy-o' didn't do much either...hoping for big things from dj q & mc bonez' 'you wot?' though. t-dot is the bassline mc who really needs to become a star.

also, hoping that the rumour that mutya buena is planning a move into bassline is true

i should really check whether any good bassline rmxes of r&b hitz are cropping up, the t2 rmx of 'bed' was so so great, plus dexplicit on 'like a boy' and 'ayo technology'

check check check: dexplicit rmx of kasia's 'over you'

and the remixes of 'honey child' by bliss'n'script

oh yeah and the up norf dutty mix of garage jams' 'snowflake' is sick!

There's a good bassline mix of American Boy that leaves out Kanye West and where Estelle's airy vocals sound really good floating over the music (whereas on the real version they sound underwhelming).

Yeah I like that remix of "American Boy", it's by TS7 who's a top-shelf producer.

"Gonna Be Mine" is excellent but it really had no business being in the charts. The vocal is great but very functional.

might have to actually put my hand in my pocket for that apostle mix cd, the clips sound great! especially the first vocal cd - i'm interested in how bassline seems to have been allotted the uncontested fiefdom of strident, vengeful diva tunes as funky house has risen. (ng's 'tell me' perhaps the sole exception.)

i'm really out of the loop otherwise but in case no one's heard it alex mills & wittyboi's 'beyond words' was a big 1xtra hit recently, and is superb:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC2y6lKR85s

finally picked up the paleface mix, and all i can say is MOAR PLEASE

so cheesy but i've been really into james walker's do you want it right now; uses lyrics from avh's "i want your soul" - was that original or lifted from some freestyle track?

supple's remix of just dance - kept too much of the original vocals in but the drop is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OrqbHW25b0

master swae - my feeling 2009