Bassbin Sessions ( 2 cds )

You know the feeling. A wide-rimmed souped-up Fiesta screams past and the pavement shakes for a second from the huge bassbins wedged under the back seat. Your are torn between picking up the nearest rock and throwing it car-wards and the nagging voice in your head asking, “What the hell was that tune!”

Cue the latest volume of the Sessions series, somehow shoe-horning its enormous bass booty into one tidy, slimline CD box. Since the family tree of the dark bassline has many twigs and, now 20 years on from the original electro era and the first rumblings of Miami bass, a few illustrious ancestors too, this collection is a good time to reflect on the tunes that really do work your woofers.

Disc 1

Goldie presents Metalheadz - Inner City Life
Jungle Brothers - Jungle Brother (Urban Takeover mix)
Roni Size - Brown Paper Bag (vocal edit)
Krust - Re-Arrange (DJ Die remix)
Wookie - Scrappy
Double 99 - RIP Groove
Sticky ft. Ms Dynamite - Booo! (Original Dirty Mix)
Zinc - People 4
Leftfield - Phat Planet
Tayo Meets Precision Cuts Downtown - Breakbeat Girl
Aquasky vs. Masterblaster ft. Ragga Twins & Co Ge - All In Check
Dreadzone - Here We Go
T Power ft. Blade - Dangerous (album mix)

Disc 2

Todd Terry ft. Martha Wash & Jocelyn Brown - Somethin' Goin' On (Loop Da Loop mix)
Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage mix)
Drumatic Twins - Rock Steady
Soul Of Man - Dirty Waltzer
Plump DJs - Creepshow
Tom Real vs. Rogue Element - Resistance 06
C83 ft. Tamra - Twisted Logic (Kraymon remix)
An-Ten-Ae & Bass Nectar - California Sunshine
Slyde ft. Lady Posh - Vibrate To This (Trouble Soup! Remix)
Fluke - Switch (Marco Bellini & Val Weller Bosomania Club mix)
DJ Shadow - Right There (Tokyo Ghetto Tech remix)
Si Begg - Try To Work It Out
Rennie Pilgrim & Klaus - Brother Analogue