ceephax Favourite basslines top 5

[Root5]

I put a lot of thought into this, trying to be honest about which tracks I truly love and keep going back to because of their baselines, and I got some surprising results.

 

5: Vertiphon by Bola

 

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Bassline starts at 1:25. It's just a single note switching octave, but despite its simplicity it's a very beautiful baseline.

 

4: Spring Rounds from the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky

 

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The part I'm thinking of starts at 0:29. Something about it is just incredibly captivating.

 

3: Salacid by Luke Vibert

 

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The bassline is pretty constant throughout. Even though it's the epitome of cheese, I love it. Filling out the chord predictably, and then every now and then, even more predictably, BAM! Dominant 7th chord. If there were an hour long version of this track, I'd listen to it. I just can't get enough of the predictable funk.

 

2: Orage - Liszt

 

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Another classical piece, oddly enough. The part I'm thinking of is the rumbly bass starting at 0:27. It captures the rumble of a thunderstorm perfectly.

 

1: Outh9x by Autechre

 

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqw9Ds9ZdZg

 

My all time favourite bassline. I just love the notes. They are somehow not what you would expect, but that just makes them sound even more right, somehow. I think there's some polyharmony going on in here. It can't be that complex, given how repetative the track is, but the 4rth note in the bassline sounds higher than I was expecting. It creates a wondefully alien atmostphere.

[Berk]

Bochum Welt - Star Cluster

The Other People Place - Let me be me

Joy Division - Disorder

Joy Division - Transmission

New Order - Dreams Never End

[Zephyr_Nova]

The song's kind of cheesy, but the bass line that hits at 3:10 is ballin' out of control:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg41Iej7eeI&t=3m10s

 

PS it's supposed to start the vid right at the 3:10 mark but I have a feeling that won't work here (it isn't occurring in the post preview).

[brian trageskin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6I-aKZ-3Z0

[SCONES TO DIE FOR]

 

Stalag Riddim!

[marf]

i can't think of all five right now, but i can say the number one (for me) would have to be "just like heaven" -- the cure

[Rbrmyofr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63r2ueTH6tE

[Redruth]

there are many many more, however, these have come to mind:

 

meat beat manifesto (all)

squarepusher (all)

massive attack (all)

the orb (all)

pye corner audio - we have visitors

hedfunk - dark lady

mr. oizo (all)

the cure (all)

the future sound of london (all)

urban tribe (all)

global goon (especially family glue)

bochum welt - asteroids over berlin

freeform (all)

[perunamuusi]

Port Rhombus

[usagi]

speaking of Tommeh - I didn't want to start a whole new thread for this and didn't know where else to post it - the whosampled.com page for Squarepusher is a minor lol