June 23, 2014

Creating this album was an awesome, interactive, cathartic experience. I got to collaborate with so many interesting people, try so many different approaches and techniques (at times pretending I was in some crazy band creating a wildly diverse rock album but then at other times getting to go back and remix myself). I went off the deep end for months – completely submerged in creative ideas and free to revisit all of my most special influences, memories and concepts, propelling them further into the collective consciousness of the future. As with any album, there were so many songs that did not make the final cut (some of which I spent weeks working on). Some songs I worked hard with other artists or vocalists on, and some of them I scrapped and looted for parts. But the 15 songs I chose in the end represent exactly how I want NVSB to sound: diverse & eclectic – a throwback to classic styles while looking ahead to the future. I want to share a few notes about each song here:

Dearest friends and bass heads Without further preamble, I am proud to present the new album Noise vs Beauty. I hope it brings you happiness! 🙂 Get it here + listen in full! In addition to this offering of 15 new songs, I bring news of our NVSB Tour 2014 – a 5 week voyage into the unknown, our first and only road show of 2014 – a chance to go as deep as fcuk and get #immersive. Presale tickets go on sale tomorrow at 11am CDT via www.bassnectar.net You can listen to the new album and check out all tour dates here.

Noise vs Beauty Listening Party! Tomorrow at 7pm PST to celebrate the launch of NVSB I’m going to be listening to the album start-to-finish, and sharing my thoughts, hopes and fears online in real time, offering behind-the-scenes tidbits and fun facts for the heads, plus the occasional unrelated musing about planet earth. Gather your friends, nectar-addled pets and bass-headed loved ones, and join me and the Bassnectar community via the power of your mind’s eye for a shared listening experience in our giant communal digital living room, aka the internet. Just press play on Track 1 at 7pm PST (use time.gov and make sure you’re set to Pacific Standard Time) and then tune in on Twitter to take part in the conversation as we experience NVSB in psychic unison. Will empathetic enlightenment be attained? Possibly not. But it will definitely be fun. And, unless you’re doing something wrong, it will be loud and it will be heavy.