BASSWALD: Recent Episodes

John Eckhardt

as basswald, john eckhardt scans the cosmos for ever new patterns in time, space & bass with a special taste for sound system culture.

drawing from a vast horizon and collection of varied bass music, a basswald selection is always deep and trancy, full of haptic bass pleasures and good for surprises.

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back in time for your early summer gathering, airport transit or cooking session with a lighter touch on this set of airy chill out tracks!

  1. emer
  2. A Taut Line
  3. wzrdryAV
  4. Henzo
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  6. Sunden
  7. J. Albert
  8. W00DY
  9. Mark Ernestus
  10. Externalism
  11. Time Cow
  12. A Taut Line
  13. Morwell
  14. Bait
  15. Tubby Isiah

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Bass, space and time in recent, original Dub iterations.

  1. Evan Caminiti
  2. Gil Barte
  3. Sa Pa
  4. False Aralia
  5. Ghost Dubs
  6. Parris
  7. TNT Roots
  8. Deadbeat
  9. J. Albert
  10. URA
  11. wzrdryAV
  12. Cloud Management
  13. Felinto
  14. wakan tanka records (Vodlemko Mix)
  15. MT Gemini
  16. Civilistjävel! x Mayssa Jallad

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finding deep and thrilling techno tracks has always been a challenge to me. but since even the last humans will for sure be raving to it, i never stopped trying: here’s a banging selection of some of my favourite, industrial-leaning tracks from the past twelve years.

  1. Michal Wolski
  2. Pris
  3. SNTS
  4. Pause
  5. Flaminia
  6. Torn
  7. Ducerey Ada Nexino
  8. Avatism, Clockwork (C/W), CW/A
  9. Pause
  10. Zisko, ArchivOne, Lacchesi, Sina XX
  11. 6SISS, Positive Centre
  12. In Half Light
  13. Pfirter
  14. Yuji Kondo

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a free-flying book of songs touching on indy, folk, krautrock and more experimental storytelling.

  1. Civilistjävel! x Mayssa Jallad
  2. james K
  3. Jabu feat. Daniela Dyson & memotone
  4. Perila and Ulla
  5. Any
  6. Jenny Hval
  7. Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, Hahn Rowe
  8. Meril Wubslin
  9. Any
  10. Jabu
  11. Lou Venturini
  12. Meril Wubslin
  13. Wu-Lu
  14. Joe Lally
  15. Anika
  16. Kim Gordon
  17. Violence Gratuite
  18. Lou Venturini

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a highly unlikely pixel breeze of shoe-gazing ambient-trap, bound to
massage your eardrums, subs and your brain cells, too!

  1. nueen
  2. Aethek
  3. Iceboy Violet
  4. Yungwebster
  5. 990x
  6. Bianca Scout
  7. Haji
  8. Jessicnt
  9. Loraine James
  10. Time Cow
  11. Kim Gordon
  12. Sockethead
  13. Klein
  14. nueen
  15. URA
  16. 990x
  17. Loraine James

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A new mixtale of krauted avant folk, outernational tape loops and magnetic field recordings!

  1. Angus MacLise
  2. Aeson Zervas
  3. Christopher Trapani, Zwerm
  4. Rat Heart Ensemble
  5. Garth Erasmus
  6. Angus MacLise
  7. Gaister
  8. Das Ende der Liebe x su dance110
  9. Gosheven
  10. Symposium Musicum
  11. Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui
  12. Inre Kretsen Grupp & Prins Emanuel
  13. A Taut Line
  14. Aly Eissa & Ayman Asfour
  15. Gaister
  16. Laura Cannell & Andre Bosman

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a terrestrial, dark ambient selection meditating on both the elemental might and
ultimate indifference of what we refer to as „nature“, as well as on the
inescapable presence of ecological principles even in late-industrialism.

  1. Francesco Fabris & Ben Frost
  2. Eric Holm
  3. Devika
  4. Mønic
  5. Amby Downs
  6. Christina Giannone
  7. Basic House
  8. Mariam Rezaei ft. Teresa Winter & Bobby Glew
  9. Stave
  10. Bliss Detention Center
  11. PureData
  12. SELM
  13. Inner8, Koichi Shikmizu, Franz Rosati, Lifecutter, Scald
  14. Cleared
  15. Shakali

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sharing a special passion for the poetic pleasures of languages i don’t understand, for voices that sound unfamiliar and sometimes otherworldly - embedded in sprawling textures and a branching jungle of original, sometimes weird, sometimes outright bouncy beats...

  1. Yikii
  2. Howie Lee
  3. Violence Gratuite
  4. Dijit
  5. Sockethead
  6. DJ Anderson Do Paraiso feat Sarah Guedes, Mc Code, Mc Paulin do G
  7. IFS MA
  8. Violence Gratuite
  9. Yokel x D.Ham x Franco Franco
  10. Phelimuncasi & Metal Preyers
  11. Kamohelo, E-Unity
  12. King Midas Sound
  13. Zuli ft. Mado $am, Abanob, Abyusif
  14. Howie Lee
  15. Dijit
  16. The Maghreban, Nah Eeto
  17. DJ Anderson do Paraíso Feat. MC's Laranjinha & Laureta

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exquisite matriarchal experimentalism! our best way out is more feminist men, so get it together guys.

  1. Ann Eysermans
  2. Mariam Rezaei
  3. Jenny Hval
  4. Amy Cutler
  5. Klein
  6. Ziúr
  7. Hannah Silva
  8. Jenny Hval
  9. Aviva Endean
  10. Azu Tiwaline
  11. Laura Cannell
  12. Dis Fig
  13. Lemna
  14. Anna Homler
  15. Amy Cutler
  16. Moor Mother
  17. Mariam Rezaei
  18. Aisha Devi
  19. Martina Bertoni

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Back with a slower, more poetic brand of hip hop tracks that grew on me over the past couple of years!

  1. Billy Woods x Messiah Musik
  2. Conway The Machine ftt Goose, Jae Skeese, Shots, 7xvethegenius, & SK
  3. Westside Gunn feat. Benny The Butcher & Conway The Machine
  4. Armani Caesar
  5. Mach-Hommy
  6. Death at the Derby
  7. Fly Anakin feat. Nickelus F
  8. Death at the Derby
  9. Evidence
  10. Che Noir
  11. Conway The Machine
  12. Fat Ray
  13. Westside Gunn feat. Wale & Joyce Wrice
  14. Teller Bank$
  15. Casual & DEAD PERRY
  16. Bisk
  17. Milc & goldenbeets
  18. Armand Hammer

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after a series of more specifically themed editions, the time is right for a mix of what we like the most: a journey into deeper space with basswald-style subs, gritty beats and washed-out soundscapes.

  1. Toshimaru Nakamura
    2.Yugen Disciple
  2. Ausschuss
  3. Gil.Barte
  4. Dadub (ENA Version)
  5. Arkhad & Undveld
  6. OKO DJ
  7. PAN SONIC
  8. Mønic
  9. Kevin Richard Martin
  10. Inner8
  11. Lemna
  12. Atsushi Izumi
  13. Dis Fig, Ruhail Qaisar
  14. Shapednoise
  15. Lemna

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trippy new ruffidge from africa!

  1. Rian Treanor & Ocen James

  2. Ennanga Vision

  3. Metal Preyers

  4. Rian Treanor & Ocen James

  5. Metal Preyers

  6. Ecko Bazz

  7. Nakibembe Embaire Group with Gabber Modus Operandi & Wahono

  8. Po

  9. Toya Delazy

  10. Ennanga Vision

  11. Authentically Plastic

  12. Mc Yallah feat Ratigan Era

  13. Afrorack

  14. Lila Tirando a Violeta & Sueuga Kamau

  15. Dj Skothan

16 Phelimuncasi (Prod by DJ Scoturn)

  1. MaRiiO

  2. Makossiri

  3. Toya Delazy

  4. Makossiri

  5. Authentically Plastic

  6. Nakibembe Embaire Group with Gabber Modus Operandi & Wahono

  7. Slikback

  8. Ecko Bazz, Biga Yut (Ekhe Rework)

  9. Slikback

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spring time spring reverb! centered around a few iconic tracks from the UK around 1978-85, this is a super-rare venture into a curious twilight zone between punk, dub, industrial and wave.

  1. African Head Charge
  2. Clive Field Marshall
  3. Blackbeard
  4. A Certain Ratio
  5. Lifetones
  6. Killing Joke
  7. Dome
  8. The Flying Lizards
  9. African Head Charge
  10. Owiny Sigoma Band
  11. Hanna Mekonnen
  12. Family Fodder
  13. The Raincoats
  14. New Age Steppers
  15. The Pop Group
  16. Anika
  17. HTRK
  18. George T & Johnny Aux
  19. Angkorwat
  20. Disjecta
  21. Gil.Barte
  22. Dome
  23. Jonnine

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  1. Mønic
  2. Pinkcourtesyphone
  3. Giuseppe Falivene
  4. Anna von Hausswolff
  5. Leila Bordreuil
  6. Thomas Köner
  7. Kevin Richard Martin
  8. Robert Takahashi Crouch
  9. Laura Cannell
  10. Shifted
  11. Yann Novak
  12. Eric Holm
  13. Christof Kurzmann / Burkhard Stangl
  14. Giorgio Netti / Marcus Weiss

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Just when you thought I wouldn't get any darker, here's another blast of sound art of the highest order, carefully selected to help you cope with less digestible everyday realities.

  1. Lawrence English, Merzbow

  2. Soft Issues

  3. Patten

  4. Lawrence English, Jamie Stewart, HEXA

  5. Shapednoise

  6. Teste

  7. Zonal

  8. Atsushi Izumi

  9. 6SISS, Positive Centre

  10. Slikback

  11. Arkhad & Undveld

  12. G36 Vs JK Flesh

  13. Evis May

  14. Duma

  15. Sly & The Family Drone

  16. Portal

  17. Altarage

  18. End

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Agile, meditative, with a stunning ear for space and details - the underground half time drum’n bass sound as first championed some 10 years ago by labels such as osiris, samurai or later UVB-76 (I threw in a few classics). Like leaves on a tree, it keeps evolving under the radar into ever new permutations that never stopped to excite me!

  1. Entire & Istota

  2. DB1

  3. Sciama

  4. Entire

  5. DYL & DB1

  6. Forest Drive West

  7. DYL

  8. Blood Trust

  9. Pessimist

  10. Ruffhouse

  11. Mark Kloud

  12. Itti

  13. Torn

  14. Overlook

  15. Theme

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Deliriously gorgeous set of sun-scorched, hallucinogenic ambient tracks!

  1. Ahmad

  2. Valentina Magaletti

  3. Dedekind Cut

  4. Siavash Amini

  5. Helm

  6. Shifted

  7. Rhythm & Sound

  8. Best Available Technology

  9. Hoshina Anniversary

  10. Eomac

  11. Significant Other

  12. Best Available Technology

  13. Las

  14. J. Albert

  15. Taylor Slow

  16. Only Now

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loads of newer jungle music around! but can you keep it real AND fresh unruly? nice up the sound!

  1. Sophia Loizou

  2. Rognvald

  3. Havelock

  4. Aquarian

  5. Zuli

  6. ASC

  7. Yally

  8. Pinch

  9. smog

  10. Loft

  11. LSDXOXO

  12. Lastrack

  13. The Duke Of Juke

  14. Cocktail Party Effect, Isabassi

  15. Homemade Weapons

  16. DLX

  17. Lewis James, DanDansK

  18. Smyla

  19. Moresounds

  20. Neve, Was A Be

  21. ZULI (Lee Gamble Remix)

  22. Special Request

  23. Eprom

  24. Norfik

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a seedbomb of fresh tracks that otherwise won’t fit too easily - carefully arranged into a one hour flowerbed of beats, bass and fuzz. urban gardening!

  1. Lifted

  2. Leila

  3. Sibla

  4. Meuko! Meuko!

  5. Sectra

  6. Fumu

  7. Oyisse

  8. Huxley Anne

  9. Aya

  10. Only Now

  11. Makossiri feat Blaq Bandana

  12. Henry Greenleaf

  13. Kinlaw & Franco Franco

  14. Trill

  15. Nolife

  16. Cristian Vogel

  17. Gantz

  18. Menzi

  19. Slikback

  20. LDWG

  21. Scotch Rolex ft. MC Yallah

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dope rap music all female MCs!!

  1. Tommy Genesis

  2. Dua Saleh & Bas

  3. Leikeli47

  4. Young M.A feat. Fivio Foreign

  5. Femme It Forward & Rapsody

  6. Tommy Genesis

  7. Bbymutha

  8. Dua Saleh

  9. Chynna

  10. Nadia Rose

  11. Hoodcelebrityy

  12. Lady Leshurr

  13. Chynna & Junglepussy

  14. Princess Nokia

  15. Lady Leshurr

  16. Leikeli47

  17. FLOHIO

  18. Nicki Minaj

  19. Bbymutha

  20. Junglepussy

  21. Cardi B

  22. City Girls

  23. Princess Nokia

  24. FLOHIO

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A musical revisitation of Andrei Tarkovsky’s timeless and more than ever contemporary movie: a foray into a post-industrial world, asking questions about man's faith, psyche and trance...

Quotation from Lao Tse "Tao Te Ching“ (as featured in the film).

  1. Janek Schaefer

  2. Giuseppe Falivene

  3. Insin

  4. Shifted

  5. Sam Kdc

  6. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma

  7. Malvern Brume

  8. Warren Ellis

  9. Lucrecia Dalt

  10. Siavash Amini

  11. Dadub

  12. DJ Shadow, Chino Amobi, Dedekind Cut

  13. Anna von Hausswolff

  14. Clément Edouard

  15. Ahmad

  16. DYL, DB1

  17. Land Trance

  18. Katatonic Silentio

  19. Pinkcourtesyphone

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One hour of my heaviest slabs of sound!

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  1. 4 6 2 5

  2. Siavash Amini

  3. Shapednoise, Mhysa

  4. Ena

  5. zeroh

  6. Wilsondub, AK49

  7. Low End Activist (Cassius Select Remix)

  8. Digi, LSWR (XL Arge Remix)

  9. Mumdance, Logos

  10. Selm

  11. Avon Terror Corps

  12. brb>voicecoil

  13. Emma DJ

  14. Nazar (Slikback Remix)

  15. Michael Brailey

  16. Shapednoise

  17. Nazar feat Shannen SP

  18. Kinlaw & Franco Franco

  19. patten

  20. Trill

  21. Duma

  22. Ecko Bazz

  23. Biga Yut

  24. 1127

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Lockdown deep listening pleasures with uplifting synth-vibes post-rave style!

  1. Soundbwoy Killah

  2. NLS

  3. Loft (Alis Remix)

  4. Sophia Loizou

  5. GAS

  6. Don't DJ

  7. Kara-Lis Coverdale

  8. Dedekind Cut

  9. Katsunori Sawa

  10. Lakker

  11. Trux

  12. Init State

  13. CW/A (Dario Zenker Remix)

  14. Lapis

  15. Konrad Wehrmeister

  16. Equiknoxx (Mark Ernestus Remix)

  17. Borai & Denham Audio

  18. Jackson Veil Panther

  19. Trainspotter

  20. Trux

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Female pressure only!!!

  1. Bayaka Women

  2. Klein

  3. Hannah Silva

  4. Meuko! Meuko!

  5. Aisha Devi

  6. Debbie Friday

  7. Villaelvin

  8. Debmaster & MC Yallah

  9. OKZharp & Manthe Ribane

  10. Lucrecia Dalt

  11. Kara-Lis Coverdale

  12. Mhysa

  13. God Colony feat. Flohio

  14. Moor Mother

  15. Leikeli47

  16. Stereotyp & Lady Saw

  17. Lady Leshurr

  18. WaqWaq Kingdom

  19. Rapsody

  20. Little Simz

  21. Chiwoniso

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ambient as deep, wide and wondrous as it gets.

the kind of stuff i have been listening to in my countless hours in the forest - taking photos, picking berries, getting lost in time, space and shapes... enjoyable in the city, along the river, on monotonous drives or in you favorite armchair as well!

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  1. Burial

  2. Sophia Loizou

  3. House ov Leaves

  4. Emra Grid

  5. ØjeRum

  6. Sarah Davachi

  7. Demdike Stare

  8. Sophia Loizou

  9. DB1

  10. RQ

  11. Autechre

  12. Rhythm & Sound

  13. Fennesz

  14. Dedekind Cut

  15. Porter Ricks

  16. Bethan Kellough

  17. Gavia Arctica by Sten Wahlström

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we live in great times for dark music!

  1. pessimist

  2. special request

  3. shaped noise & justin k. broadrick

  4. scorn

  5. outer heaven

  6. pessimist & karim maas

  7. techno animal

  8. DYL & homemade weapons

  9. scorn

  10. pessimist & karim maas

  11. kevin richard martin

  12. rainforest spiritual enslavement

  13. kinlaw & franco franco

  14. jigga

  15. shapednoise

  16. jk flesh

  17. selm

  18. FIS

  19. special request

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due to my set for hamburg's finest monthly drum'n bass party DRUMBULE , i've been spinning a lot of wicked tunes recently. and after attending probably some 100 DnB parties over the past 25 years, it's about time for an ultimate selection - booyakah!

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Some of 2018's best music in this dystopian rinse-out!

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  1. Emra Grid

  2. Domiziano Maselli

  3. Chafik Chennouf, Katsunori Sawa

  4. Positive Centre

  5. Of Habit, Dane Law

  6. Shelley Parker

  7. Clouds

  8. Jigga

  9. Vofa

  10. Rognvald

  11. Shelley Parker

  12. Positive Centre

  13. AQXDM

  14. Jigga

  15. Institute of Landscape Architecture

  16. Monic

  17. Ena

  18. Torn

  19. Ena

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Basswald inna future ragga style:

  1. Horace Andy (Stereotyp Version)

  2. K>O.I~3.2^6

  3. Richard Browne

  4. Trilion

  5. Ward 21 Productions

  6. Steely & Clevie

  7. Warrior Queen & Jahrkon

  8. Still

  9. Talen

  10. Poirier, Face-T

  11. Kalbata, Major Mackerel, Mixmonster

  12. Low Jack

  13. The Bug

  14. Alter Echo & E3

15 Harmonic 313

  1. Al-Haca Soundsystem & Sizzla (Stereotyp Remix)

  2. Danny T & Tradesman

  3. Coldcut & Adrian Sherwood

  4. Harmonic 313 & Fox

  5. Mavado

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A set of deeply wondrous, dubbed out techno emerging from my crates:

  1. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement

  2. Ossia

  3. Brahme (Ketev Rmx)

  4. Kessel

  5. Demdike Stare

  6. South London Ordnance

  7. ASC

  8. Neel

  9. Ambre

  10. Shako (Ryan James Ford Rmx)

  11. Pact Infernal (Lucy Rmx)

  12. Retina.IT, Dadub

  13. Late Echo Express

  14. Deepchild (Deadbeat Rmx)

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Freestylish halftime wickedness between footwork, jungle and breaks.

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breathe through with an hour of selected, sun ripened lounge tracks, freshly picked in my summer forest of bassmusic!

  1. Kiyoko

  2. Rhythm & Sound feat. Paul St. Hillaire

  3. Willow

  4. Rainer Veil

  5. King Midas Sound

  6. WaqWaq Kingdom

  7. Bonobo & Andreya Triana / Mark Prtichard

  8. Island People

  9. FKA Twigs

  10. Noer the Boy

  11. Max Graef & Wayne Snow

  12. Ash Walker

  13. Omar S

  14. Dub All Sense feat. Longfingah / Jambassa

  15. The Bug

  16. DJ Rum

  17. Cubenx

  18. Picus canus

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the best of hip hop and other kinds of booty poetry released in 2016!

  1. Mykki Blanco

  2. The Game

  3. The Outfit, TX (feat. Diego Money)

  4. Dreezy

  5. Young Thug

  6. T.I. (feat. B Rossi)

  7. AB-Soul (feat. Mac Miller & Rapsody)

  8. Aminé

  9. Run The Jewels

  10. De La Soul

  11. Royce Da 5'9“

  12. A Tribe Called Quest

  13. Common

  14. J. Cole

  15. Vince Staples

  16. Nadia Rose

  17. Clams Casino (feat. Vince Staples)

  18. Cho

  19. Mad Doctor X, Tenor Fly, Mercee, Sandino

  20. Kate Tempest

  21. De La Soul

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Basswald in the mix with a garagy, magic bass sound from all over for this next installment of the Basswald Podcast Series. Listen & / download!

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  1. „Roast Fish & Cornbread“ - Lee Scratch Perry

  2. „Owour Won Gembe“ - Owiny Sigoma Band

  3. „Loving or Leaving“ - King Midas Sound

  4. „Malukayi“ (feat. Konono No. 1) – Mbongwana Star

  5. „Lesson“ - LAS

  6. „That's what's up“ (feat. Vast Aire) – Dabrye

  7. „Mustik“ - Ibaaku

  8. „Irby Tremor“ - Forest Swords

  9. „Tor“ (CW/A Remix) – South London Ordnance

  10. „Manchester“ - Lukid

  11. „Tech 9“ - Owiny Sigoma Band

  12. „All that's allowed“ (live) – Phillip Jeck

  13. „Tree Drumming“ - Bayaka Pygmies

  14. „The Commons“ - FIS

  15. „Congo beat the Drum“ - Kalbata, Major Mackerel, Mixmonster

  16. „Everything“ - Hidden Turn

  17. „Stonecutter“ - Epoch

  18. "Blue Ruin" - Clarity

  19. „Two Words“ (Bay B Kane VIP Mix) – Rainboh, MC Assassin

  20. „Sweetz“ - Burial & Zomby

  21. „Library of Solomon Book 2“ - Demdike Stare

  22. „Mapas“ - Neunau

  23. „Water Drums“ - Baka Beyond

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basswald's take on recent, strictly heavy weight dubstep.

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Basswald's DJ mix of fresh, jungle related tracks, all released during the past two years.

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the revolutionary bass sound whose vibrations have been spreading from past time, inner city kingston across the globe today, and whose studio experiments and song deconstructions have led the way for so much of today's music that has drums and bass in it or gets remixed.

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First edition of John Eckhardt's Basswald DJ podcast series, presenting a diverse spectrum of bass music. "Expedition" comes with an hour of fuzzy power ambient!