bassnectar
Trends you seek? Well, just back from time in the desert at Burning Man, that Petri dish that cooks the front end of trends in the heat of the Black Rock Playa, and I’m happy to report I’ve seen the future of music. And it hails from America.

I was not the judge of this, oh no. Only a witness to it. I saw and heard the feelings and thoughts of those who have greater knowledge than me to make such judgments (which ain’t difficult). I found a consensus emerging that the work of Bassnectar is where we’re going. That no matter who came from wherever in the world to strutt their stuff, and no matter what type of music fare you consume, this is where to guide one’s sails.

And I witnessed said set in the middle of one night at The Root Society, and I was totally freaked out. It’s not often, especially nowadays in the world of soundbites and samples, that you get to hear and experience something entirely new. I started to weep a bit, I just couldn’t control myself. It was quite refreshing…

The child of Lorin Ashton, Wiki defines Bassnectar as “a freeform electronic music and social experimentation project” where the sound “combines beats and basslines with music of any or all speeds, time signatures, rhythms, and sound source. The sound graviates toward heavy tempos, playing with double time and half time.” In it you will find: “ragtime, punk rock, blues, batucuda, polka, salsa, film scores, gangsta rap, beatboxing, balkan gypsy, ska, death metal, and dub.” You can check them out via their iTunes podcast called Bassnectar Transmission, but I believe you can only experience them from the middle of a crowd of a few thousand people, for with Bassnectar it is essential to feel, not just hear, the music.

I predict a 2012 Chevy ad. Ok, maybe Volkswagon.