Bass Agenda Vinilo y CD

Review: Bass Agenda is the underground electro and techno label arm of the cult radio show of the same name. Bass Junkie now makes a bold statement with his Sub Sonic Survivor album, which draws on 40 years of electro history to cook up firing cuts that are designed to blow the dance floor apart. There are raw, coarse cuts like 'Sub Sonic Survivor', glistening melodic workouts such as 'Divide & Multiply' and dark, busted trudgers such as 'Star Destroyer'. The production is proudly analogue, with glistening synths and rugged drum programming undermining each tune.

Review: To kick off 2021, Motor City veteran DJ Nasty has decided to don one of his most popular alternative aliases, Detroit's Filthiest, and deliver an EP of nails-hard electro on Bass Agenda Recordings. He begins in typically energetic mode on 'Programmed To Kill' - a rolling fusion of punchy beats, fizzing bass, sci-fi synths and electrofunk flourishes - before opting for warped bass, ghetto-tech beats and crystalline melodies on 'Dark Shadows'. Over on the reverse, 'Critical Condition' adds spacey, Steel City style bleeps and intergalactic stabs to a pounding electro rhythm, while 'Scared To Death' is an ultra-aggressive beast that genuinely delivers on the promise of its title.

Review: If this one ain't for the freaks then we don't know what is! Two legends of electro go head to head on BA45. On the A side its all up to the always incredible Carl Finlow; he of Random Facor/Silicon Scally fame delivering some proper futurist beats that will school anyone who's fallen victim to the current electro trend like on the booming Dystopian trip that is "Bleem" or the breakneck aquatic funk of "Chemical Bonds". On the flip, Welsh analogue wizard and legend in his own right Dez Williams serves up dirty acid bangers like on the squealing and savage "Interference Pattern" and the grinding lo-fi techno jam "Whitey".

Review: Franck Kartell has been waving the flag for French electro for quite some time now, but what we really like about this man's style is his ability to branch out to all sorts of misguided, psychedelic electronics. He returns to his favourite Bass Agenda with a storming LP, a glorious collection of industrial dance tunes that's make the likes of Henrich Dreissel very proud indeed. Coincidences is an album of many shapes and sizes, with some tunes made for the floor and others built for pure meditation, but there is a recurrent sound running through its nervous system, an elegant strain of high-powered Detroit funk. Don't get us wrong, this gets into some pretty sticky electro heaviness in many places, but there are also extended moments made of pensive, deep-as-hell instrumentation. It's bad-ass. TIP!

Review: UK stable Bass Agenda Recordings has been veritably killing it since they kicked things into motion back in 2013. Since then, it's been nothing but quality from the imprint, and all of it from a vast pool of hand-picked artists that have remained largely loyal to them. This time it's a collaborative effort between four emerging talents, all of them into the darker varieties of that inimitable electro-techno crossover. RXmode's "Lost" is a menacing, uncompromising techno bruiser with a bleek outlook on life, and this particular form of dystopia turns even darker and more chilling on "Utopia Planitia" by W1B0. For the B-side TFHats strips things back a little, still banging out the electro, but this time adorned by a more synth-heavy atmosphere, while Slaves Of Sinus from "People Who Destroy" offers a bouncy, playful electro cut for the dance. Sick.

Review: Transhumanism is a collective of Dutch producers who first met on the dance-floor at Dave Clarke's Whip It party at Melkweg in Amsterdam, so that will give you a reliable indicator of their sound: it's brash, serrated electro that fires your synapses and awakens your every sense. Juan Atkins and Helena Hauff have been dropping it all summer and it's easy to see why. There is strobe lit action from Slaves Of Sinus, walls of high intensity sound from RXmode, rave tinged stuff from W1b0 and a more throwback jam from TFHats to round out a high impact EP.