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| Archives - 02/19/2006 - Artist of the Week: Bassnectar |
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From ARTISTdirect. Go there to read an interview with Lorin Ashton.
A lot of electronic music DJs and producers lay claim to the "underground" mantle, but San Francisco's Lorin Ashton, a.k.a. Bassnectar, is the real deal. For a decade, Ashton has quietly established himself as a fixture on the dance music scene, first in the Bay Area with his mind-blowing parties and mixtapes, then internationally with a series of self-released albums, 12-inchers for labels like Om and Six Degrees, and remixes for the likes of KRS-One and Spearhead. The Bassnectar sound -- an indescribable mix of hard-edged breaks, head-nodding hip-hop and trippy, world groove textures -- had grabbed the ear of forward-thinking DJs from James Zabiela to Rennie Pilgrem.
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Now Ashton is ready to take his Bassnectar tag "above ground." The release of the ambitious double CD Mesmerizing the Ultra announces the arrival of a full-fledged visionary, a producer who mixes progressive politics, block-rocking beats and head-expanding sounds in ways no one else has conceived of.
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Mesmerizing The Ultra
Inaugural Day BeatDown (with Sayr)
STS9 - Some sing (Bassnectar Remix)
Blow (feat. Kyrian)
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The Sound
Everybody
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