Bassnectar is the stage name of Lorin Ashton, a freeform electronic music p… Read Full Bio ↴Bassnectar is the stage name of Lorin Ashton, a freeform electronic music producer and DJ based in Santa Cruz, California. He is best known for his live performances, light shows, and community engagement. He made his debut in 2001 with the release of his debut studio album Freakbeat for the Beatfreaks
Bassnectar on his history, posted via bassnectar.net
A quick run down of my musical life:
When I was in junior high I began discovering music that struck me, as opposed to music that felt familiar (like my parent’s music). This was mostly Metallica (the first song I heard of theirs was “Enter Sandman”, so this was after they had already become “mainstream” and blown up), NWA (which I memorized completely verbatim), and Nirvana (again my introduction to them was “Smells Like Teen Spirit” their ‘breakout single’ which all hardcore Nirvana fans I am sure despised and griped about) but for me this music was raw, pure, and extremely riveting. I gravitated towards anything heavy, and fell headfirst into the local underground scene, which was full of freaks, lunatics, and overall playful, strange, creative people.
I begged my parents for a crappy guitar, and after three quick lessons I formed a band with my best friend, and we set out to lose ourselves in heavy metal. To this day I do not know THE SLIGHTEST musical theory, I don’t understand notes or chords or anything like that… I taught myself to play by basically remixing the songs I loved best, or combining riffs from different songs. Or I would take a hook (like the opening guitar in Black Sabbath’s “Ironman”) and play it at various alternate speeds, trying to change up the feel but maintain the essence.
About this time, my Uncle Joe (who has always been a bohemian world traveller) started bringing me hand drums and teaching me beats. He would leave me with cassette tapes of brazilian Samba and Batucada beats. As I learned to play the drum, my ability to keep time with my band mates improved significantly.
The music I was into became progressively more and more hardcore, and as I began turning away from Religion and mainstream American culture, my friends and I descended into an obsession with the darkest, heaviest music possible. Death metal, Black metal, doom, grindcore… and I mean we became *OBSESSED*…it was all we ever did. There was an intense camaraderie between the various metalheads in the area, and a network developed. There was so much creativity and experimentation exchanged as the 2 or 3 kids from each high school influenced each other, shared new styles, and got together to form bands or make underground shows happen. Sometimes we would have informal ‘shows’ in our practice studios, or in my bassist’s garage (or on crazy days we would set up and play on his rooftop), as well as taking over various Battle Of The Bands, or throwing grindcore/punk crossover shows in the basement of the Cupertino Public LIbrary. A very unique community formed, comprised of freaks from every nook and cranny. It was a community of misfits and oddballs and rejects, but it felt like home. Bands like Exhumed, Spazz, Gory Melanoma, Dawning, etc were all very influential.
As time progressed, my songwriting developed, and although I did not officially know what I was doing, I was writing most of the music for my band from intuition, and again from opening to all the influences around me. I experimented with 4-track recorders and FX pedals. During senior year of high school, as my friends and I started going to “raves”, I started making rough forms of DIY techno music (with crappy drum machines, my guitar, my effects pedals, and bad vocal effects) and listening to late night electronic music shows on KFJC.
Upon going to my first rave on September 5, 1995, I basically changed irrevocably. I was still extremely obsessed with music, but the rave scene at the time opened my eyes to the beauty of community (something I had been raised with in the hippy commune I grew up in) and I felt completely open and connected to other people. As opposed to the introverted darkness of metal, I found ‘rave music’ to be just as raw and powerful and immersive, but the values were very positive and friendly, and so was I.
I got into raves not for the drugs, or even the music (although both were very powerful) but rather for the community. I was so mesmerized by everything i found in the rave scene that my only response was to give back. I wanted to get as utterly involved as I could, so I could re-create my experiences for as many other people as possible. I was usually completely sober, running around all night long taking care of everyone I met or dancing for 8 hours straight like a mad man.
Soon I knew all the promoters in the area, and thousands of people in the San Francisco scene. As my tastes developed into hardcore psytrance (we called it ‘Goa Trance’ since it supposedly originated in trances that took place on the beaches of India), I quickly got behind the scenes and started throwing parties in SF warehouses and throughout the beaches in Santa Cruz. I was working with hundreds of other people, this was not a lone wolf thing… there were multiple communities, simultaneously pushing the boundaries further and further and I wanted to be at the core of all of them, working with all my heart to contribute. (I am tempted to start listing names of people who i worked with but the list could get long, maybe in another post, i can tell a better history, with more details).
I remember in early 1996 when I realized that all a DJ was doing was playing a record. Before that, I had thought they were *making* all those sounds live… I found a pair of turntables at a friends house, and after a 20 minute lesson I gave it a try and seamlessly beatmatched the two records (her name was Bonnie, she was a SICK downtempo DJ out of San Jose) …I remember laughing out loud, partly because it was so much fun, but also because it was *SO* painlessly easy. Years of drumming had prepared me and I thought that since I was already throwing ill parties, why not play at them as well? Until that time I had never considered being a DJ (although I was taking the Electronic Music minor at UCSC and playing with tons of amazing gear). I was mostly focused on making events happen, and making music, in addition to going to school (I majored in “Community Studies” at UCSC, and also minored in Education)…
One Sunday morning, a few hundred friends and I were deep off in the boonies on a beach outside of Santa Cruz. We had been there all night absolutely raging, and as the sun rose over the water and illuminated the beach I noticed another sound system and group of people way, way down on another side of the beach. I was usually the sober guy who would go talk to the cops if they came to bust our fun, or to basically handle whatever needed to be handled, so I started walking over to this other party. Halfway there, I met one of their representatives, a small guy who looked kind of like an Ewok. He introduced himself as “Brother” and explained that his group (they were called “Spaceship Gaia”) had noticed our party and wanted to come make friends… Brother was (and is) a huge influence on the early Santa Cruz full moon collective scene, and also one of my favorite DJs to this day. One time he gave me a sticker he made that said “Butterfly Beings Drink Bass Nectar” and as soon as I saw it I thought that if I ever made a band again I would name it “Bassnectar”…
That is the long and short of it. I can tell you more about the hippy commune I grew up in, or the death metal scene in California in the early 1990′s or the illegal warehouse raves or working as Barney The Purple Dinosaur at little kids birthday parties while I was in college… Or I can tell you how the sounds and styles morphed from the 1990′s through Y2K and into the present day, but this feels like a good place to stop for now.
Bassnectar on his history, posted via bassnectar.net
A quick run down of my musical life:
When I was in junior high I began discovering music that struck me, as opposed to music that felt familiar (like my parent’s music). This was mostly Metallica (the first song I heard of theirs was “Enter Sandman”, so this was after they had already become “mainstream” and blown up), NWA (which I memorized completely verbatim), and Nirvana (again my introduction to them was “Smells Like Teen Spirit” their ‘breakout single’ which all hardcore Nirvana fans I am sure despised and griped about) but for me this music was raw, pure, and extremely riveting. I gravitated towards anything heavy, and fell headfirst into the local underground scene, which was full of freaks, lunatics, and overall playful, strange, creative people.
I begged my parents for a crappy guitar, and after three quick lessons I formed a band with my best friend, and we set out to lose ourselves in heavy metal. To this day I do not know THE SLIGHTEST musical theory, I don’t understand notes or chords or anything like that… I taught myself to play by basically remixing the songs I loved best, or combining riffs from different songs. Or I would take a hook (like the opening guitar in Black Sabbath’s “Ironman”) and play it at various alternate speeds, trying to change up the feel but maintain the essence.
About this time, my Uncle Joe (who has always been a bohemian world traveller) started bringing me hand drums and teaching me beats. He would leave me with cassette tapes of brazilian Samba and Batucada beats. As I learned to play the drum, my ability to keep time with my band mates improved significantly.
The music I was into became progressively more and more hardcore, and as I began turning away from Religion and mainstream American culture, my friends and I descended into an obsession with the darkest, heaviest music possible. Death metal, Black metal, doom, grindcore… and I mean we became *OBSESSED*…it was all we ever did. There was an intense camaraderie between the various metalheads in the area, and a network developed. There was so much creativity and experimentation exchanged as the 2 or 3 kids from each high school influenced each other, shared new styles, and got together to form bands or make underground shows happen. Sometimes we would have informal ‘shows’ in our practice studios, or in my bassist’s garage (or on crazy days we would set up and play on his rooftop), as well as taking over various Battle Of The Bands, or throwing grindcore/punk crossover shows in the basement of the Cupertino Public LIbrary. A very unique community formed, comprised of freaks from every nook and cranny. It was a community of misfits and oddballs and rejects, but it felt like home. Bands like Exhumed, Spazz, Gory Melanoma, Dawning, etc were all very influential.
As time progressed, my songwriting developed, and although I did not officially know what I was doing, I was writing most of the music for my band from intuition, and again from opening to all the influences around me. I experimented with 4-track recorders and FX pedals. During senior year of high school, as my friends and I started going to “raves”, I started making rough forms of DIY techno music (with crappy drum machines, my guitar, my effects pedals, and bad vocal effects) and listening to late night electronic music shows on KFJC.
Upon going to my first rave on September 5, 1995, I basically changed irrevocably. I was still extremely obsessed with music, but the rave scene at the time opened my eyes to the beauty of community (something I had been raised with in the hippy commune I grew up in) and I felt completely open and connected to other people. As opposed to the introverted darkness of metal, I found ‘rave music’ to be just as raw and powerful and immersive, but the values were very positive and friendly, and so was I.
I got into raves not for the drugs, or even the music (although both were very powerful) but rather for the community. I was so mesmerized by everything i found in the rave scene that my only response was to give back. I wanted to get as utterly involved as I could, so I could re-create my experiences for as many other people as possible. I was usually completely sober, running around all night long taking care of everyone I met or dancing for 8 hours straight like a mad man.
Soon I knew all the promoters in the area, and thousands of people in the San Francisco scene. As my tastes developed into hardcore psytrance (we called it ‘Goa Trance’ since it supposedly originated in trances that took place on the beaches of India), I quickly got behind the scenes and started throwing parties in SF warehouses and throughout the beaches in Santa Cruz. I was working with hundreds of other people, this was not a lone wolf thing… there were multiple communities, simultaneously pushing the boundaries further and further and I wanted to be at the core of all of them, working with all my heart to contribute. (I am tempted to start listing names of people who i worked with but the list could get long, maybe in another post, i can tell a better history, with more details).
I remember in early 1996 when I realized that all a DJ was doing was playing a record. Before that, I had thought they were *making* all those sounds live… I found a pair of turntables at a friends house, and after a 20 minute lesson I gave it a try and seamlessly beatmatched the two records (her name was Bonnie, she was a SICK downtempo DJ out of San Jose) …I remember laughing out loud, partly because it was so much fun, but also because it was *SO* painlessly easy. Years of drumming had prepared me and I thought that since I was already throwing ill parties, why not play at them as well? Until that time I had never considered being a DJ (although I was taking the Electronic Music minor at UCSC and playing with tons of amazing gear). I was mostly focused on making events happen, and making music, in addition to going to school (I majored in “Community Studies” at UCSC, and also minored in Education)…
One Sunday morning, a few hundred friends and I were deep off in the boonies on a beach outside of Santa Cruz. We had been there all night absolutely raging, and as the sun rose over the water and illuminated the beach I noticed another sound system and group of people way, way down on another side of the beach. I was usually the sober guy who would go talk to the cops if they came to bust our fun, or to basically handle whatever needed to be handled, so I started walking over to this other party. Halfway there, I met one of their representatives, a small guy who looked kind of like an Ewok. He introduced himself as “Brother” and explained that his group (they were called “Spaceship Gaia”) had noticed our party and wanted to come make friends… Brother was (and is) a huge influence on the early Santa Cruz full moon collective scene, and also one of my favorite DJs to this day. One time he gave me a sticker he made that said “Butterfly Beings Drink Bass Nectar” and as soon as I saw it I thought that if I ever made a band again I would name it “Bassnectar”…
That is the long and short of it. I can tell you more about the hippy commune I grew up in, or the death metal scene in California in the early 1990′s or the illegal warehouse raves or working as Barney The Purple Dinosaur at little kids birthday parties while I was in college… Or I can tell you how the sounds and styles morphed from the 1990′s through Y2K and into the present day, but this feels like a good place to stop for now.
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Bassnectar Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Bassnectar:
Art of Revolution "Revolution" (Feat. Faustix, Imanos & Kai) Can you see it? …
Bass Head Bass head Bass Bass head Bass Bass head Bass Bass head He…
Blow MMM-BOP DRR-BOP STRM-BOP FARM-BOP [mouth beatz by Kyrian]…
Blow (feat. Kyrian) MMM-BOP DRR-BOP STRM-BOP FARM-BOP [mouth beatz by Kyrian]…
Bomb the Blocks What Toss it, toss it- toss it- toss it up What Throw y…
Bomb the Blocks (12 Inch Edit) What Toss it, toss it- toss it- toss it up What Throw yo…
Boombox Blas-blas-blas-blas-blast out Blast out, speakers, I am the…
Cozza Frenzy Automatic when we Splatter data in the 20 double bins…
Cozza Frenzy (Bassnectar Mega Bass remix) Automatic when we Splatter data in the 20 double bins up fro…
Do It Like This Let’s let do it Let do it, like this Let let let…
Empathy At least you're something wonderful I find you're something …
Freestyle Music, music, music Music, music, music Freestyle Music, mus…
Heads Up You You You You You know you love it You know you lov…
Hexes You, you surprised me with a kiss Underneath the crashing wa…
Hologram Anything can happen It's a hologram It's a hologram Heavy…
Immigraniada Immigrada Immigraniada Immigrada Immigraniada da Immigrada I…
Infinite Infinite (say yeah) Infinite (say yeah) Infinite, infinite…
Into the Sun When the little guns come And they wanna bust guns And they…
Intro This is the story of the (of the) honey tree. You…
Laughter Crescendo "Mm hee hee hee. Hmm Hmm Hmm," The laughter of Autumn…
Laughter Crescendo %5B2012 Versi "Mm hee hee hee. Hmm Hmm Hmm," the laughter of Autumn…
Lights I had a way then Losing it all on my own I…
Loco Ono Take the music Take control Turn it up And let it go Take t…
Nothing Has Been Broken Nothing has been Nothing has been Nothing has been Nothing h…
Pennywise Tribute Present past and beyond Even though they weren’t with us too…
Ping Pong Down, low, down Down, down, down low, down Down down low It …
Ridiculous Wobble (feat. Nibu) And I say follow me follow me follow me Down down…
Select Frequency Mash it up properly. Yes. Uh. (x3) Yeah. Check it: …
Select Frequency (feat. Seasunz) Mash it up properly. Yes. Uh. Yeah. Check it: A One two, …
Skin You're like an accident waiting to happen I'm like a time…
Speakerbox With the likkle guns, come All them wanna bust guns On the…
Surrender From the moment you dream It's not always as it seems If…
Take You Down I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna take you I'm gonna, I'm…
Teleport Massive Im a glitch modulator, sip on the data verb conjugator, plu…
The 808 Track (feat. Mighty High Coup) 808 kick drum, 808 hat 808 snare drum, 808 clap Got an…
The Matrix We drop We drop bass in your face We drop bass in…
Ugly Ugly, ugly It’s gonna be kicking hard cause it’s ugly This b…
Underground Communication (feat. Seasunz) Lost, now we can all get a piece of it Peace…
Underwater Undercover Underwater Honor your resemblance and rapture Kee…
Upside Down Upside, upside, upside, upside. Upside, upside, upside, down…
Vava Voom Vava Voom, into the room This the tune Bada-bing bada-boom …
West Coast Lo-Fi Rides Again Waaaaaaah! (Laughter) See, it's all like. Hehe, Whahaa Hehe,…
What I love one another Like sister and brother War and fighting …
Wildstyle Method Tikitikitembonosarembocharibariruchipiperipembo Tikitikitem…
Wildstyle Method (feat. 40 Love) Tikitikitembonosarembocharibariruchipiperipembo Tikitikitemb…
You & Me Here we are On the road together Racing time You…
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K LURZ
Few years later and this is STILL my favorite song by Bassnectar
KT Katte
This is one of the first songs I heard while really high, and when you hear the audience loop start to repeat, i started to get confused and tripped out, and when that high-end synth came in I was completely lost in the music and it was like visuals started floating out of the speakers and filling my vision with alien worlds. Weird to think that was over 5 years ago.
dead seymour
i love how in the beginning you think it's live but then the beat starts, and your like "woah" and then it drops and your like "woah-er"
Bobby Blank
The essence of pure awesomeness.
Alison Cline
One of the first Bassnectar jams I became addicted to.... Lorin knows his shit. The live audience aspect is so badass
PhunkCDXX
Mind blowing insanity, In the right state of mind you can actually hear this song layering itself into the separate parts of the track. Fuck Im going to miss sharing that part of myself with the people who arnt around anymore. They were the few you actually understood
Alex Weiner
And then at the end when all the layers begin in unison. This song was one of the first that got me into older bassnectar
Michael Dunlop
I was there when this was recorded. It was epic.
pacotacos1234
this is my senior song that everybody will hear just cause its that awesome and chill may not be crazy sick on my subs but i love it
billy holtcamp
I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!