Bassline house, or simply bassline, is a sub-genre of UK garage music that mixes elements of speed garage, 4x4 garage and R&B, and shares characteristics with fellow sub-genres dubstep and grime for their emphasis on bass.
Characteristics
Like dubstep and grime, bassline house generally places a strong emphasis on bass[1], with intricate basslines (often multiple and interweaving) being characteristic of the genre[3]. Bassline tracks use a four-to-the-floor beat.[3] The music is often purely instrumental, but vocal techniques common in other styles of garage can also be present, such as female R&B vocals sped up to match the faster tempo, and also samples of vocals from grime tracks.[1] Most songs are around 138 to 142 bpm, faster than most UK Garage and around the same tempo as most grime and dubstep.
Bassline is gaining popularity on the pop charts and allegedly one reason for this is it appeals to both genders, while grime and dubstep gathered a predominantly male following.[4]. The increased appeal of bassline may be in part due to the vocal contributions of female artists such as Jodie Aysha. The lyrics of bassline are often focused on love and other issues that may be considered more feminine [3]. In a blog posting, Simon Reynolds described the bassline house genre as "the drastic pendulum swing from yang to yin, testosterone to oestrogen, that I had always imagined would happen in reaction to grime, except it took so long to happen I gave up on it and just forgot."[3] It has been argued that grime and dubstep originated in turn from "an over-reaction - to the 'feminine pressure' of late-'90s 2-step."[3]
Together with its return to feminine-style music, bassline is said to embrace pop music aesthetics, and to have a euphoric, exuberant quality similar to that of earlier British rave music - both also in contrast to grime and dubstep.[3]
Bassline has been described as largely similar, and in some cases synonymous, with its precursor 2-step garage, a description denied by proponents of the scene. The 4x4 beat of bassline house has been noted as a difference between the two.[3] Producer T2 maintains the genres share a common origin in house music but are different sounds, while major bassline distributor and DJ Mystic Matt describes bassline as having a similar rhythm to UK garage, but that the strong emphasis on bass renders it a separate genre.[5]
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Originally Posted By BLISSS
slow and low that is the tempo :)
c'est ca moi je préfère la musique un peu plus rapide ,mais c'est quand même pas mauvais.J'en joue un peu entre 2-3 tounes electro break un peu plus rapide et le monde apprécie.Un set au complet p-e pas,mais en fusion avec d'autre styles je trouve ca nice! blop
exact! :) mon avant dernier demo yé pas mal juste booty bassline mais a + 7 bpm environ et le monde ont bien aimé.Le remix de Dizzee Razcal bassline est vraiment nice.Le picnik dimanche les NROTB ont jouer 2/3 de leur set bassline house pis je te dirais que la crowd embarquait pas a peu près.Alors c'est faux de dire qu'il n'y a personne qui aime ca! Ca commence a etre tres big ici a montreal.
There you go,
In my last 2 sets (Tour Levis and Picnik) I incorporated bassline with breaks and electro and it worked like magic!
People were lovin it, especially the girls :)
Didn't know NROTB were into that stuff too, right on!
I'm feeling like a million bucks right now..
Dj Bliss @ Plateau Saturdays Sep 6th (breaks/electrofunk & Bassline)
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