Yesh..I am back, with uncertainty. Spacebass Thesis and Third Rail EP

So I thought I would give this shitty blog thing another shot. Mostly for the reason that I have new music to post! But secondly, that I feel some ideas need to be shared. For example, this Richard Feynman quote:

"One thing is that I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs, in different degrees of certainty, about different things. But I'm not absolutely sure of anything and of many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, if I can't figure it out, then I go onto something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me." - R.P. Feynman

 If you dig deep enough, you'll find that the answerable threshold of the known physical universe is called the 'uncertainty principle'. As seemingly unrelated as it may appear at the moment, this concept is very important to you in your life right now and it always has been. Okay, so what does that imply in concrete terms?... and why am I throwing around atheistic-looking Feynman quotes on here? Because in order to deal with really hard things (death or the universe) you have to be ok with not knowing the answer. And that includes God's/an electron's plan. So, just calm down and enjoy your life.

So please, enjoy my music :)

 The first track is a "Spacebass Thesis". A sort of garagey, chill, 4x4ish track that was released as a free download on XLR8R:



I also have my second Bass Machine Music release "Third Rail EP" scheduled to be released on February 24th, 2014. A sort of mishmash of lots of bass, percussion, and vibrato-saturated synths. Excellent remix by Jrapp included on there too.



Lots of other good things planned for this year. Can't wait. Mix series will continue later this month.

 Zenojim

Zenojim Dirac-Delta Mix // Monthly Mix for October

A little late I know, but this mix has some deep tracks in it. I named it Dirac-Delta because I'm on some nerd shit. Props if you understand.

Tracklist:

Ta-Ku - We Were in Love

Kalela - Do It Again [Prod. NA]

Jade - Dont Walk Away (JAW JAM 3 A.M. Dub)

ViLL-GE - Wanna Tell You (Henry Krinkle Remix)

Drake - Too Much ft Sampha (Jessie Andrews & Jason Burns Remix)

Zenojim - Untitled

MATRiXXMAN - A Witness

Zenojim - Third Rail (JRapp Remix) [Forthcoming Bass Machine Music]

AlunaGeorge - Best Be Believing (Shadow Child Remix)

Sweater Beats - Million Dollar (Tony Quattro Bootleg)

SecondCity - What You Need

Tajan & Fwdslxsh - Beautiful (Esta Edit)

Mr. Carmack has been going ham on the beats

First and foremost, let me just say that I heard about Carmack about three months ago and was immediately perplexed with how this dude created some of the sounds he puts in his tracks. Every texture sounds like it could have been made with a SP by a hiphop head from the 90's but filtered through some crazy Mars DMT-lens. And these tracks bang too. There is mad versatility in this guy's music.

But not only this, Mr. Carmack has proven to be mad profilic as well. He has released at least a track a day for the past 11 days now. To review the past week and a half, here's what he has put up on his soundcloud page:

  


By now you should be pretty acquainted. Excited to see what this guy does next.

Machinedrum drops new single to introduce his new release on Ninja Tune

Machinedrum is one of the first producers that has provided me a stepping stone from the banks of hiphop to the shore of bass-music, and one of the best things about his music is that it meets somewhere in the middle of the two aesthetics. However, in terns of growth/progression within his own work, Machinedrum has shifted almost effortless between glitchey hiphop tracks and remixes, percussion-saturated juke burners, and bubbly island club music. Almost all of these ventures share the same nostalgic junglist mindset. With his new venture set for release on Ninja Tune.

"The Gunshotta Ave. EP will be released on 14 October on 12" vinyl and download, featuring remixes by Fracture and AMIT, as well as non-album track "Stirrin"" - Ninja Tune

Reach Machinedrum:


http://machinedrum.net/


https://soundcloud.com/machinedrum


@Machine_Drum

Zenojim - Spacebass Thesis

I uploaded a chill little shuffley, house track onto my soundcloud the other day. It's pretty old but still vibes.

808 Roundup 3 // Arnold x Lil Texas, Kaytranada, Iamusick, Nate Kodi

To start off this 808Roundup I thought I would throw in a recently released track from two of my favorite producers I've been listening to a lot of this summer. Both of these producers are from the MOD collective and really good at making intricate and rapper-friendly bass tracks. This stwo remix from the duo is a tropical, chilled-out club track. The pitchbent and reverb-laden synths remind me of something from Donkey Kong Country for the SNES mixed through a 00's R&B filter. The rhythm jumps between percussion-driven Angola influences and dirty dirty Cadillac music. Good for headphones or clubs. This will be out on HW&W.

Next up is the funkiest new producer I've heard in a minute. Kaytranada is from the electronic hotbed of Montreal and makes swingy, bouncey, and vibratoey groove tracks. As Summer is pretty much over at this point, this track is a good little last minute mood-lifter before the Fall comes crashing in. I really suggest you go listen to this guy's other stuff too.





And then we have Bondax, of course. These guys are super talented and super young, which I'm sure pisses off all sorts of melvin, old man producers. The cool thing about Bondax's tracks is how sophisticated and layered they are. They exist somewhere in that shadowy, yet growing grey area between R&B and UK bass music. They posted up this set on their soundcloud featuring all of their free goodies, so take advantage.

I also found this lil gem track by the good homie Nate Kodi and producer IAmusick. Short and sweet. This track starts off in a synthy landscape then drops down into a heavy drum section. 808 heavy one.



If you got bass-oriented goodness you think should be on a 808Roundup send me an email

'Scratch The Surface Podcast' Featuring Kid Navajas, Zenojim, Paroxyzm and Doc Poks

I had the pleasure of being featured on the latest Scratch the Surface by Skinny B.

He played two tracks from Zenojimesis, my Danny Brown 'Grown Up' remix and "Lunar Shit (ft. Antwon Vinson)", along with a brief little interview.

Peep his podcast below: