Top 100 Chart placements for Bass / Club
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INDEX:Records alum vase (aka Downstairs People; games) and label-head Conna Haraway team up as Department to deliver a two-track mini-epic of sprawling brooding soundscapes and future-facing rhythms, via finely chiseled abstract outbursts and widescreen cinematic depth of field. (Additional live instrumentation comes courtesy of Glasgow-based staev, and INDEX:Rec affiliate MCRD supplies intuition suggestions.) Starting off as a proper serene slice of beatless musing, Cogent slowly hatches into a rhythmic shape-shifter combining the immersive power of elastic sound membranes with the incisiveness of post-industrial breaks, leaning towards IDM-oid fractals and signature UK bass menace. All in vaporous piano chords (cue: staev), heavily dubbed-out layers and FX-coated emotion, Recovery beckons us onto the path of soulful elation with its poignant melange of brittle stabs and skittish drum patterns gone astray. Dark and solar at once, the track blends cavernous entrancement with verbed-out RnB samples and percussive trenchant on a steely, broken techno tip. Ethereal like a mirage yet daunting as the four elements boiling up a storm, Departments debut two-tracker is an elusive piece of sewn-together sketches exuding the sheer magnitude of a master painting in sound.
Chaos and Order is the new project from B E N N, a Taipei-based producer/ DJ and founder of label Over My Body, operating at the intersection of sound, philosophy and abstraction. Chaos and Order is an auditory study of rupture and resonance, an experimental soundscape shaped by modern sonic fragmentation. Drawing inspiration from Taoist cosmology, B E N N weaves fractured rhythms, collapsing structures, and granular forms of digital decay to embody the shifting interplay of Yin and Yang, entropy and order in constant flux. Across the EP rhythms become rituals, and forms become states of perpetual disintegration and reassembly, where glitch is not error but in essence an aesthetic of imperfection and transformation. His work resists resolution, favoring inward collapse and constant transformation: Intimate yet conceptual, narrative driven yet defiantly non-linear. His work is continuously shifting between post-club terrains and more abstract sonic inquiry.
For our final release of 2025, we are excited to present DENTRO DE MIM, an extended EP by Lisbons DJ Narciso (RS Produções / Principe). 7 incendiary club tracks/tools, plus remixes from Swimful and Digita Ngeche boss Kop-Z. Artwork by Jingxin Wang, mastered by Raphael Valensi. `DENTRO DE MIM´ (´INSIDE OF ME´) is a reflection of everything Ive lived through — the phases Ive left behind and the ones that still live within me. Each track is a fragment of time, a feeling I once held, a memory that refuses to fade. I went through a situation where I was lost in my thoughts, and I recounted this feeling in each track. - DJ Narciso
Azu Tiwaline & Cinna Peyghamy, Amotik, Quelza, and Alarico remix four tracks from Ben Klock and Fadi Mohems collaborative album Layer One. Released last year on the pairs label LAYER, each artist on the Layer One Remixes EP retains the weighty, low-end edge that shaped the album, while reinterpreting four tracks through a myriad of techno, IDM, bass, and experimental shades. Honouring the conceptual direction of Layer One, which delved into a post-human world and offered a serene reflection on a realm that continued to flourish in the absence of humanity, the Layer One Remixes EP echoes the same theme. The remaining human survivors on Earth signal a remembrance of their sensibilities, told through the powerful lyrics and vocals of grime MC Flowdan and interdisciplinary artist Coby Sey. Azu Tiwaline & Cinna Peyghamy open the EP with their remix of Our Sector featuring the commanding vocals of Flowdan. Fragmented bass-driven textures skitter across the sparse soundscape, culminating in a track primed for the weirder hours of the night. On Ultimately, Amotik delivers his take on the original featuring spoken word by Coby Sey, and whips up a rolling four-four number pierced with bleepy percussion. On the flip, Quelzas reinterpretation of Our Sector unfolds with zappy motifs and technoid flourishes, permeating the shadowy pads and spine-chilling harmonics that slink through the atmosphere. Alarico remixes Clean Slate, serving a potent techno track laced with equal parts restraint and release, enhanced by Coby Seys taut vocals. While the original album represented the more exploratory sides of Ben Klock and Fadi Mohem, the Layer One Remixes EP offers a further step into the void, led by five contemporary artists who are unafraid to delve into the murkiest corners of the dystopian world conjured up by Klock and Mohem.
For the 6th edition of the CoOp Presents One-Shots series we welcome aboard SAMIEL. Samiel is a visually impaired tempo-pusher from the West Midlands. He has a passion for bass-heavy dance music, which he pairs with a background as an instrumentalist, creating his own take on UK funky, bruk and 140. Alongside his own productions, he is co-founder of the Bazuka nights; a global bass music event series. Street Level merges his love for bruk rhythms with the sonics found in UKG, bassline & dubstep. A grimey synth lead and gritty drums accompany a captivating soundbite of community struggles in Kingston. Another essential piece for the crates from the legendary CoOp Presents crew. Available exclusively on Bandcamp on November 28th, then landing on all other digital platforms December 5th.
The second instalment of Portways Ghost in the Shell series - a deeper dive into Leftfield Bass territories. Trading jungles breakneck velocity for something more cerebral and glitched, these future-focused transmissions see the Bristol-based producer exploring uncharted sonic space with a distinctly UK edge. Equal parts fractured and fluid, this is bass music from the outer edges - defiantly difficult to pin down and all the better for it.
This is an album travelling through seasons in your mind. Its as close to my final form as Ive known, Ikonika aka Sara Chen says, describing in evolutionary Pokémon terms, their Sad and Sexy new album. With SAD, they take the reins as producer, songwriter, and singer for the first time, SAD marks a distinctive development from their past as a producer. Its Ikonika, transformed, intimate and of course beautifully made – with their sultry, unvarnished vocals directing the journey across an arc of ten tracks. An album for pop lovers and club music lovers alike. At a crossroads a few years back, both personally as a new parent, and with their future in music, Ikonika stepped into the hot light of the frontstage, picking up the mic to start singing and performing their own lyrics. Simultaneously, they reckoned with being queer and trans in public life and its reverberations: finding my voice without fear speaking first as Sara shares. The goal became to be undeniable, celebrated and rewarded. The albums airy production reflects the music they DJ and enjoy; theres credit to a plethora of African electronic music on the album. Sara is half Egyptian and tracks such as WHATCHUREALLYWANT feature rhythms that their long ago dad taught them on the Egyptian tabla, carried over and spoken into other hand drums such as the djembe. A log drum preset on a DX7 cartridge used for their early records, became a prelude to their later interest in Amapiano culminating in an early 80s-ish wedding music sound – fiddly solos, overlays and trills. Through their close-knit circle of dancing queers too, Ikonika became inspired by more music of South Africa; Gqom and Bacardi. Ikonika got pen and paper out with interdisciplinary artist and writer Tice Cin to add further nuance to the narrative world of SAD. Cin finishes SAD on Make It Better, barring in her North London vernacular, as the only vocal guest on the album. Ikonika was encouraged by Tice to see SAD from a writers point of view, taking the listener into SAD WORLD. Ikonika weaves a storyline into the project, that begins on a sloshing train and ends on a stolen Lime bike. Whatsmore In light of a recent diagnosis of Autism (which Sara first clocked through videos on socials), every lyric is towards activating an understanding of self. Living post-diagnosis has offered the direct clarity that so many live without and has shifted Saras life. Enjoy this new adventure into Ikonikas world, more intimate than ever before.
Dutch-Indonesian artist LE KACANG distills the tension between raw club instinct and tight precision, threading lines from Baltimore and Jersey Club through future beats and European club mutations. With RUTHLESS EP, he delivers his two-track debut for United Identities, holding chopped funk intuitively rendered with drum intensity and heavy bass mutations. RUTHLESS EP is a no-miss for fans of Black Rave Culture, Juke Bounce Werk, and AceMoMA. Opening with Around in Space, LE KACANG drives the Lyn Collins break through bass kicks, lush key stabs, and vocal chops that bounce in your face. With broken roller Wrong Territory, he makes his sample chops talk back to the drums. Its a highlight in DJ sets on many occasions. Born and bred in Heerlen, a small city in the south of the Netherlands, LE KACANG was shaped by a bass-fuelled underground and graffiti culture. Now in Amsterdam, the Dutch-Indonesian producer connects that foundation with his deep curiosity for club culture and the ever-inspiring sound of the citys nightlife.
At 19, Helviofox adds his signature to the batida template that by now seems to have been in existence since forever. Such is the strength of this primordial fountain, a source of rejuvenation. Also within the literal family: Helvio cites brothers Dadifox and Erycox as main influences. Curiosity for the sound made him go into production by the time he was 13. A couple of years later (2020) he became co-founder of TLS with E8Prod, Alberfox, DiionyG and other mates. His talent fully developed since then, opening a slight detour that became a new path parallel to the main road. Lively basslines anchor the beat directly lifted from tradition and clearly channeled to the dancefloor. Strong, well rounded grooves, a spot-on sense of timing and tempo, elegant atmospheres, all part of Helvios notion of arrangement and his perception of dance music boundaries, stretching them just enough to present a challenge but not as far as to disconnect head and feet and risk losing the floor. This liminal space between experimentation and popularity is both dangerous and attractive. There is no one formula. Precisely why it still retains plenty of fuel for current and future generations to contribute personal visions. Lisboa, 2025