The cross-genre dancefloor favorite from Bassnectar’s 2011 sets is now available for free download! This radio edit combines the gypsy punk of Gogol Bordello with a truckfull of BASS, perfect for both Bass Heads and Gogol Bordello devotees who want some extra spice. Be sure to grab the full length off of Bassnectar’s Divergent Spectrum LP, which you can preview in full by clicking here.
Greetings Island-Bound Bass Heads! The conditions are predicted to be extreme in New York City this weekend – extremely loud, extremely bright, extremely fun, and extremely prime for a full-on FULL MOON Bass Festival. Want to make it in and out alive? Here is your survival guide!
Bass Island is upon us! Get ready to be shipwrecked on the shores of sonic unreality… This Saturday 8/13 we will be taking over Governors Island NYC and churning its very foundations with unstoppable bass and brain-bending behavior. Alongside will be Lupe Fiasco, Z-Trip, Prefuse 73, Virtual Boy, Dave Nada and Joro Boro. This is our last stop in the Northeast for 2011, and we will be going out in style – the East Coast is sure to quake. Join us! Win the ultimate Bass Islander Experience including a pair of Enhanced Experience tickets, backstage meet-and-greet with Lorin, tour of the stage, and a massive bundle of signed Bassnectar gear. (Enhanced Experience tickets include express entry to the Bass Island ferry, admission to the Bass Space VIP lounge, viewing area and bathrooms, and a limited edition Bass Island poster.) In addition we have five pairs of GA tickets to give to runners-up. Just answer the below question and provide your name and email address to enter. One grand prize winner and five runners-up will be selected by the Bassnectar crew and judged based on the creativity of their answer. The winning entries will be announced and winners notified by email
It is with immense happiness, and a near-drunken sense of enthusiasm that we announce: DIVERGENT SPECTRUM IS OFFICIALLY RELEASED AND AVAILABLE! 15 tracks of diverse music, spanning the spectrum of my mind, this album has been many moons in the making. Featuring collaborations & music from Ellie Goulding, Gogol Bordello, ill.Gates, Jantsen, Rollz, Seth Drake, and more. The new single “Above & Beyond” is available now for a limited time as a free download, and you can buy the entire album in any format (CD, digital, full color double vinyl) as well as tons of merch bundles and limited edition packages.
I wanted to create a collection of music that reflects my diverse tastes, but also I wanted to explore the energetic balance between heaviness and weightlessness, between beauty and aggression, tension and release. Since I am on tour year round, I decided to take a few original tracks, and combine them with some remixes of older material, and some collaborations as well, to flush out as many individual pieces as possible. When I realized it would be a full album, and not just an EP, I decided to compile each song in order of how i would play it in a set: Usually i arrange my sets in terms of Acts (like a play) and each Act contains various routines (which are segments of loops/songs/samples that all flow together harmonically, melodically, energetically, etc) and then I kind of just let loose.
