Bassnectar

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Bassnectar
Bassnectar press photo 2014.jpg
Background information
Also known as Lorin Ashton
Born (1978-02-16) February 16, 1978 (age 46)[1]
Origin Santa Cruz, California, United States
Genres Dubstep, Drum & Bass, Electronica, Trap
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 musical influences include metal and rock bands such as Metallica, Megadeth and Nirvana. 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 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".

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

  • 2002 Float
  • 2004 Creation Lullaby
  • 2005 Booty Line / California Sunrise
  • 2005 Taurine Thruster
  • 2005 Everybody
  • 2006 Blue State Riddim
  • 2007 Yo (feat. Kristina Maria)
  • 2007 Bomb Tha Blocks
  • 2008 Viva Tibet (Produced with Freq Nasty, this song was released exclusively on Giveback.net in support of their "March to Tibet" action campaign.)
  • 2008 Heads Up EP
  • 2009 Art of Revolution EP
  • 2009 Land of the Lupes
  • 2009 "Teleport Massive ft. Zumbi" (Bassnectar Remix)
  • 2010 Timestretch EP
  • 2010 Here We Go
  • 2010 Bass Head
  • 2010 Magical World (feat. Nelly Furtado)
  • 2010 Wildstyle EP - US Billboard 200 peak: #102
  • 2010 Wildstyle Method
  • 2010 Deftones - Prince (Bassnectar Remix)
  • 2011 Ellie Goulding - Lights (Bassnectar Remix)
  • 2011 Upside Down
  • 2011 Bassnectar & Seth Drake - Above and Beyond
  • 2012 Vava Voom (Bassnectar & Lupe Fiasco)
  • 2012 Ugly (Bassnectar & Amplive)
  • 2012 Divergent Spectrum Remixes EP
  • 2012 Up All Night Vol. 2 - Dark Room
  • 2012 Freestyle EP - US Billboard 200 peak: #79
  • 2013 Take You Down EP
  • 2014 Now featuring Rye Rye
  • 2014 You & Me featuring W Darling[15]
  • 2014 NVSB Remixes EP
  • 2015 DJ Sona's Ultimate Skin Music - Concussive (Bassnectar x Renholdër)"

Mixtapes

  • 1999 Dreamtempo
  • 2006 2006 BBC Pacific Breaks Special
  • 2008 Smashers & Mashers
  • 2008 Leftfield Downtempo Hyphop
  • 2009 Live Mixset for KISS FM
  • 2010 2010 IDJ Mixtape
  • 2010 Bassnectar BBC Mixtape
  • 2011 Color Storm Remixtape
  • 2012 2012 BBC MistaJam Mixtape
  • 2012 Amorphous Music Mixtape Volume 7
  • 2012 European Vacation Mix
  • 2012 Freestyle Mixtape
  • 2013 Immersive Music Mixtape Part One & Two
  • 2015 Mixtape 13

Remixes

  • 2011 Lights - Ellie Goulding (Bassnectar Remix)
  • 2011 Gogol Bordello - Immigraniada (Bassnectar Remix)
  • 2013 cheb i sabbah - Alkher Illa Doffor (Bassnectar Remix)
  • 2014 Nina Simone - Feeling Good (Bassnectar Remix)
  • 2015 Joker - Midnight (Bassnectar Remix)
  • 2015 The Glitch Mob - Beauty Of The Unhidden Heart (Bassnectar Remix)
  • 2013 Underworld - Rez (Bassnectar Remix)

Videos

  • 2007 Bomb Tha Blocks
  • 2012 Vava Voom
  • 2012 Ugly
  • 2015 "Midnight" by Joker (Bassnectar Remix)

References

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