The Wire Magazine: 68 Bass Tracks: 1 - 20

[Ian Townsend]

Cheers to AP for posting a link to The Wire magazine YouTube playlist of recommended bass tracks as featured in their 'Low End Theories' article. (The Wire Magazine: July 2012 issue).

Seeing as 68 tracks is a helluva lot of listening I'll try to post at least one of them per day. Having listened to the first five I suspect there will be something for everyone.


"Jack The Bear" by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra ( The Blanton-Webster Band) featuring Jimmy Blanton on upright bass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJafglIOymw&feature=slpl


Heavy, atmospheric Moog bass,loops, scratches and echoes from the 2007 'Untrue' album by Burial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS38JBh5gcw

[Ian Townsend]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4hdsvaQNEU&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=3&feature=plpp_video

Really like this one! Wouldn't be out of place on one of Rich Hero's mixes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL49YvsPtKs&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=4&feature=plpp_video

[Ian Townsend]

Blimey. 5 and 6 on The Wire magazines Bass List (which is in no particular order) are two looooooong ones.

Really struggling with the ambient noise of this one. Creaking doors, rain and I'm struggling to hear the bass. Truly terrible. Do folks really buy into this kinda stuff???? I need me a tune at least!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJn0pcFLMLQ&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=5&feature=plpp_video

I know this is respected free jazz / improv, but I'm struggling with this too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq3LEC0T3Fw&feature=autoplay&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&playnext=1

Couldn't stick with either of those i'm afraid.

My favourite so far is still that Carter Tutti Void

[Ian Townsend]

7 and 8 (no particular order remember...)
DONT BE PUT OFF by the fact this is 18 minutes long! Jesus...check the HEAVY rock buzz/ fuzz/ distortion guitar after the bashy drum intro. A shorter vinyl carve would be good? (Paging Rich Hero? An exclusive for your play out box!)
Awesome NOISE!!!!

YouTube Quotes:
this is a masterpiece...
Everything that Asahito Nanjo touches melts faces.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QcjH3eXrPA&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=7&feature=plpp_video

And in complete contrast :) ba di ba di boop boop Cool Water...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mky-UhxUKoM&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=8&feature=plpp_video

More tomorrow cos relentlessly wading through fairly obscure list for nuggets is good for the ears. And as Gene 'Big Dog' Pontecorvo noted on Waxidermy about this forum.... we appear to like lists. :p

[stringer]

Really like this one! Wouldn't be out of place on one of Rich Hero's mixes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL49YvsPtKs&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=4&feature=plpp_video
Nice. Like the Burial one too.

[sourcerer]

9 & 10.

Gucci Mane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=457Cs1d_En4&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=9&feature=plpp_video

Motorhead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAhGeIZW7BM&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=10&feature=plpp_video

You sleepin' Mr T? :p

[Ian Townsend]

You sleepin' Mr T? :p

I was! But you weren't. :cool:
At last! One I know (Motorhead). Like that Gucci Mane too. I wonder if he was born with that name? It would be like my mum and dad calling me Timex. Carter Tutti Void - V3 is still my favourite.

[Old School Tramp]

Christ! Mainliner! that's some serious distortion!!!!, love it, like 1000000000000 big muffs in a blender, just peakin on the screechy guitar wig out, pass the yellow oms I'm on one!

[Ian Townsend]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ifS6chR9uA&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=11&feature=plpp_video


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXP_ZTpXIk&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=12&feature=plpp_video

Gawd. Second one is 29 minutes. :eek: Will report back when I've checked them out.

(You sleepin' sourcer?) :D

[Ian Townsend]

No. 13: Melvins: Joe Preston EP:
First 10 minutes of this 23 minute long track. (!)
This is HEAVY.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWIrxVnSwGw&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=13&feature=plpp_video

& 14: Vladimir Miller - The Twelve Brigands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgKyC22SsUE&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=14&feature=plpp_video

[Ian Townsend]

No. 15: Hype Williams - Rise Up
Nice. Slow,shuffly, mellow, ambient wall of sound moog noodlings....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHubJYFJjjI&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=15&feature=plpp_video



Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - Bad Luck
'Bouncy and burbling disco bass with trademark 70s punctuated closed hi-hat pushing the groove.' - Me 2012
'Fiddly' - Ironheadrat 2012


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNogjIWjh48&feature=BFa&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1

[Ian Townsend]

As if 28th June isn't lame enough on the news front....

17. Ornette Coleman: Science Fiction 1971: I actually had to turn this off...i just cannot deal with Free Jazz / Skronk like this.....:mad:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwGJ5VxFjI8&feature=BFa&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1

[Ian Townsend]

18: Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes

A beautiful piece of music. (Unless you hate atmospheric, ethereal, ambient type stuff).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw4qvTFvV18&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=18&feature=plpp_video

YouTube Comment:
A more ethereal version than the one employed for the "Shutter Island" soundtrack. Nevertheless, a beautiful, haunting piece. Something to treasure, as it elicits and mirrors the felt physical experience one has when walking in the late evening in San Francisco's near-to-the-Bay neighborhoods. Simply an unmistakable work of genius and great passion. Thank you, Ingram Marshall!

[stringer]

Is this still live? :confused:

The bass player in me was enjoying it.

[Ian Townsend]

Is this still live? :confused:

The bass player in me was enjoying it.
Cheeky b*stard.
19 & 20 to follow in this thread. 21 & 22 in a new one. My computer is slow and YouTube heavy threads take a while to load.

When I've finished in the garden.

But it's big.

[Ian Townsend]

One a day? Well neeeearly. :rolleyes:

Bootsy's Rubber Band: Under The Influence Of a Groove
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdiFIqnSixo&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=19&feature=plpp_video

Giacinto Scelsi - Okanagon by everyone's favorite microtonal composer, for Harp, Bass and Tam-Tam (!)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpatPWzIHuw&list=PL5E85D012CAD9FBA1&index=20&feature=plpp_video

[auxillary_output]

Giacinto Scelsi - Okanagon by everyone's favorite microtonal composer, for Harp, Bass and Tam-Tam (!)



I have heard much, much worse than this but no-one has ever really explained to me what the difference is between microtonal composition and interesting noise.

[Peter Sundae]

Is The Tony Williams choice a joke as I cannot actually here any bass on the track at all.

[stringer]

Is The Tony Williams choice a joke as I cannot actually here any bass on the track at all.
Or on others? This is The Wire magazine though. It's contractual to Wire writers to always discuss utter crap like it's worthy of a PHD thesis. Lengthy high falutin' bollocks writing about unlistenable lengthy high falutin' bollocks music.

And don't get me started on Wire subscribers....

[treeboy]

OK then
:)