{"title":"Bass Clef","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBass Clef is an influential artist in the electronic music scene, known for his unique blend of dubstep, techno, and experimental sounds. With a career spanning over a decade, he has consistently pushed boundaries and defied genre conventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis music draws inspiration from a wide range of influences, including *Ramadanman*, *Shackleton*, and *Born Under A Rhyming Planet*. Bass Clef's signature sound combines deep basslines, intricate rhythms, and atmospheric textures to create immersive sonic landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith releases on renowned labels such as *Peverelist*'s Livity Sound and *Rezzett*'s The Trilogy Tapes, Bass Clef has garnered critical acclaim for his innovative productions. His live performances are equally captivating, with his energetic stage presence and seamless mixing skills captivating audiences worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"reeling-skullways","title":"Reeling Skullways","description":"\u003cp\u003efollowing a busy year of stylistically varied releases under various guises on his own magic + dreams label, ralph cumbers delivers his first long-player for punch drunk. with a title lifted from the lysergic prose of a brian aldiss novel and grooves informed by the loopier, more martian aspects of chi-town jack and detroit techno-soul, 'reeling skullways' marks a subtle, but highly alluring development in the evolution of cumbers' primary recording project. long-term bass clef fans may be surprised by the lack of samples on this album, and in many ways it follows a similar creative process to his recent work as 'some truths', with most rhythms and textures sculpted from the raw, elemental waveforms of modular analogue synthesis. but with tighter editing, contagious melodies and perfectly positioned drum patterns, the end results reveal bass clef simultaneously at his most stripped-back, focused, playful, complicated, emotional and irresistibly groovy. unfettered by fashionable production tricks, imbued with a timeless machine-soul heart, 'reeling skullways' is one of those albums you%u2019ll be reaching for again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50436346904907,"sku":"351012","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a2aa94eb-0fe8-4530-b3cd-39a37fdf8a9a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726915905"},{"product_id":"stenaline-metranil-solar-flare-bass-clef-remix-pev-remix","title":"Stenaline Metranil Solar Flare (Bass Clef Remix \/ Pev Remix)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBass Clef's long player 'Reeling Skullways' was met with a wave of critical acclaim when it arrived on Punch Drunk back in early Summer 2012, demonstrating his vision, passion and skill for electronic music as an artist and producer.The record captured the attention of director Steven McInerney who has previously directed videos for Circle Traps and Vessels as well as edited videos for Bloc Party, Jon Hopkins, Tim Exile, PVT, Wagon Christ, Vladislav Delay and many more, inspiring a collaboration between the two artists.Now ready to be unveiled in all it's techni-colour glory, Punch Drunk will be releasing a 'Stenaline Metranil Solar Flare' EP to accompany the video featuring three new mixes from Bass Clef, Coseph Jonrad \u0026amp; Peverelist alongside the original mix.Bass Clef's remix comes all guns blazing, drawing on the influence and legacy of his East London surroundings, delivering a grime laden, juggernaut proportioned reworking of the original, racheting up the pressure a Bar every bar.The Peverelist mix draws on his Bristol influences with a system testing, psychedelic steppers version excursion. Finally, Bass Clef's Coseph Jonrad alias brings the EP to a luminescent finale of fractured sound and hypnagogic vocals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punch Drunk","offers":[{"title":"12\"","offer_id":50470910853451,"sku":"368342","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"acid-tracts","title":"Acid Tracts","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn expanded double vinyl edition of his acclaimed 2013 cassette Acid Tracts, originally released late last year via Cumbers' own Magic + Dreams label, its seven dense and immersive club tracks comprise his most expansive and multi-faceted work to date. They meld his modular synthesiser's hard-edged tones with grinding drum machine rhythms, traveling from the anarchic techno of 2012's Reeling Skullways album still further outward into the void. Acid Tracts represents the latest stage in the ongoing evolution of Cumbers' music. He first cut his teeth in Bristol mid last decade, crafting scuzzy takes on dubstep with an arsenal of analogue hardware and a trombone - an approach quite distinct from the software-based sub-bass experimentation of his then-contemporaries. In the years since, he's continued to follow a highly individual path, even as he's taken stylistic divergences towards cosmic techno (with Reeling Skullways and its subsequent singles) and the freeflowing improvised modular synth jams released under the Some Truths pseudonym. Acid Tracts is his first Bass Clef release to unite those two strands of his work, drawing the fluidity and instinct-led feel of his Some Truths music into tightly structured club tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50491818180939,"sku":"372494","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fa6a7641-43a8-4dc1-8d40-20e69020e737_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727689250"},{"product_id":"magnetic-chapters","title":"Magnetic Chapters","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe poles may alter their flow. What was pushed back can be pulled in. Stuff is too fargone to re-touch, but there is dirt and pearls out in the wilderness that still transmit. Spiritlevels are constantly re-referencing. The music fluctuating within \u003ci\u003eMagnetic Chapters\u003c\/i\u003e is irrational and effervescent. There are spaces, the electro-energy gives and grounds, in which we can invest life into. This is room music, take a seat, wander round, flex. We, the dear listener, can take flight. Have big warm trust in the soul of this music. \u003ci\u003eMagnetic Chapters\u003c\/i\u003e has angles and angels, from these it's built on: Butoh, Lone Swordsmen, Acid Rain, Childhood Skies, Disco-centric Loft Life. There are Tubby-esque trap-doors, but if you submit there will be rich green moss to catch you. Bass Clef has ripped out some 12” bangers in his story, but the drums here are close and distant at the same time, like smoke signals at night, they envelop the listener. The airbrushed darkness that pervades so much 'production music' is banished from \u003ci\u003eMagnetic Chapters \u003c\/i\u003ewith a homemade Ursula Le Guinn-like sadness. There is a real tactile sense of the blackened kettles from Arthur's Kitchen in this music. Bass Clef seems fully at home. Following on from 2020’s cassettes \u003ci\u003eOrezero\u003c\/i\u003e for Slip and \u003ci\u003eMaze Greys \u003c\/i\u003efor FrequencyDomain, alongside a timely reissue of \u003ci\u003eInner Space Break Free\u003c\/i\u003e originally from 2011, finally vinyl-ised by Wrong Speed, \u003ci\u003eMagnetic Chapters\u003c\/i\u003e focus is on the more scenic, rhythmic pattens of our world (and alien others). Tracks like 'Intergalactic Biodomes' use pattens and sequences that suggest undulating hills and coombes, ones that stretch out into the ocean. The Sun beams and Full Moons seem to be guiding this well timed instrumental music (similar to Delia Derbyshire, This Heat, Sachiko M, David Pajo) this co-dependent support system allows us to go off-beat into a dreamlike state with each musical escapade. 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