Bassnectar

Bassnectar
Background information
Also known as Lorin Ashton
Born (1978-02-16) February 16, 1978[1]
Origin Santa Cruz, California, United States
Genres Drum and bass
Years active 2001–present
Labels Amorphous Music
Om Records, Destroid Music
Website www.bassnectar.net

Lorin Ashton, better known under his stage name Bassnectar, is an American DJ and record producer.[2][3]

Musical style and influences

Lorin grew up in a San Francisco Bay Area commune and initially identified with visual arts rather than music, creating movies with his dad’s camera at the age of ten.[4] Bassnectar's original musical influences included metal and rock bands such as Metallica, Megadeth and Nirvana. These influences are clearly integrated in tracks such as "Pennywise Tribute", "Seek and Destroy (Bassnectar Remix)", and "Boomerang", which combines samples of heavy metal & punk with overwhelming basslines. In the mid-90s, he briefly toured with Exhumed as a bass player.[5]

Bassnectar experienced an immediate sense of welcome and comfort going to raves in the mid-nineties, which led to the confluence of his heavy and electronic style of music.[6] He has been creating genre-bending music since the 1990s, using a variety of programs such as Vision/OpCode, Reason, and Ableton Live.[7][8] Bassnectar describes his music as amorphous and ever-changing, which is reflected in the diverse sounds and personalities of his numerous albums, EPs, and podcasts.

Bassnectar honed his style playing house parties in the San Francisco Bay Area and began gaining momentum at Burning Man, often playing up to 7 sets a night.[6] Lorin began the project as an open-sourced musical experiment exploring the interplay between music and community.[4] He released his first album in 2001 and performed as Bassnectar for the first time in 2002.

Tours and live performances

Bassnectar performs regularly at a variety of music festivals, including Bonnaroo, Camp Bisco, Coachella, the Electric Daisy Carnival, the Electric Forest Festival, Lollapalooza, and Wakarusa. In 2012 alone Bassnectar sold over 250,000 tickets (not including festivals).[6] This scale is one of his aims; he mentioned in 2011 that "this is a collection of songs I have created for maximum impact in large settings on massive sound systems for groups of people who want to get wild".[9]

Bassnectar finished in 4th place in the 2013 America's Best DJ competition-a vote and promotion to find out the country's most popular DJ conducted by DJ Times magazine and Pioneer DJ.[10]

Community and causes

Bassnectar has openly advocated for causes such as free press and true media, net neutrality, ending corporate personhood, public knowledge, and the non-profit organization Conscious Alliance. Some of his tracks are laced with voice samples of a socio-political nature, including clips from Martin Luther King, Jr., Noam Chomsky, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Michael Ruppert, and Fred Hampton. Bassnectar has been a strong advocate of charity, and in 2011, he donated $1 from every ticket sold on his tour to charity via the "Dollar Per Basshead" campaign.[11] This amounted to $250,000 distributed across three charities[12] — Alternet, Free Press, and Reach Out — which were voted upon by fans.[13] The Dollar Per Basshead campaign continued in 2012 and 2013, and once again fans were able to vote in order to determine the distribution of $100,000 each year across a variety of progressive organizations.[14]

Discography

Albums

Singles and EPs

Mixtapes

Remixes

Videos

References

  1. ↑ Bassnectar (16 February 2012). "Happy birthday tweet". Twitter.
  2. ↑ Walker, Rob (2008). Buying in: the secret dialogue between what we buy and who we are. Random House. p. 150. ISBN 978-1-4000-6391-8.
  3. ↑ Mallory Gnaegy (November 19, 2009). "Bash with Bassnectar — Bring your earplugs, and feed on the dirty bass". Vox Magazine. Retrieved 2011-04-17.
  4. 1 2 "Bassnectar: About". Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  5. ↑ http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2014-01-29/exhumeds-necrocracy/
  6. 1 2 3 Ian S. Port (2012-11-28). "Bass Instincts: How Bassnectar Came to Rule American Dance Music - Page 1 - Music - San Francisco". SF Weekly. Retrieved 2013-08-08.
  7. ↑ "EM Talks with Bassnectar". Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  8. ↑ Golden, Ean. "Bassnectar Extended Interview". DJ TechTools. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  9. ↑ "Bassnectar On World Cafe". NPR. 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2013-08-08.
  10. ↑ "2013 Results - America's Best DJ". Djtimes.com. Retrieved 2014-08-08.
  11. ↑ "Bassnectar Bio, Music, News & Shows". DJZ.com. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  12. ↑ Pratt, Mark (2012-03-21). "Ultra Music Festival 2012: Bassnectar Thinks Dubstep Is Old News - Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach - Music - County Grind". Blogs.browardpalmbeach.com. Retrieved 2013-08-08.
  13. ↑ "Dollar Per Basshead - The Results". Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  14. ↑ "Dollar Per Bass Head". Retrieved 25 October 2012.
  15. ↑ Murray, Nick (2014-05-20). "Hear Bassnectar's Massive New 'You & Me' - Premiere". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2014-08-08.

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