Bass Music – Hope For The Future
Many years ago I used to spin records on an internet radio station called interFACE Pirate Radio. It was really ahead of its time as we were streaming live with video from our apartments way before YouTube or Twitch.
Back then we were using RealAudio and almost no one was set up to receive our broadcast. We had to show people how to install it and set it up and even go to people’s houses to set them up so they could hear the channel. Things have changed so much since everyone takes for granted that they can stream video right to their phones now.
I was playing a lot of old-school Dub and Dubstep back then. It was an underground style of music from South London. I even used to go to a club called Underground SF to see dubstep artists like N-Type, Vex’d, and local favorite Juju. After a while, Dubstep took a more commercial turn and got more popular for a while but the sound wasn’t the same.
Fast forward to now, I’m seeing huge crowds at festivals listening to what they call “Bass Music” and come to find out it is basically modern but very similar to old-school dubstep. I saw a festival broadcast on YouTube that had Black Tiger Sex Machine and Svdden Death that woke me up to what is going on today. It was a little flashy but still cool.
Now I’m watching Of The Trees live from Red Rocks. He is playing such deep minimal dubstep and crushing a huge crowd. It seems to have come full circle and back to really cool stuff and the people are loving it. I feel like the world wide dance revolution had reached the masses in an incredible way.
The future is here and the youth can see, hear, and are receiving the message. It is incredible to see these masses grooving hard to the beat and incredible visuals. We have come a long way from streaming to a handful of people at a time to huge festivals getting hundreds of thousands of streams in just weeks. There is hope for the future. Let the kids rule!