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Bass music is either Miami bass, bass test music, or bass audio music. Low frequency sub-level bass lines accompanied sometimes with high pitched percussive lines across the top.

Miami bass (also known as booty music or booty bass, a term that may also include other genres, such as dirty rap), is a type of hip hop music that became popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The use of the Roland TR-808 sustained kick drum, raised dance tempos, and occasional sexually explicit lyrical content differentiate it from other hip hop subgenres. Music author Richie Unterberger has characterized Miami bass as using rhythms with a “stop start flavor” and “hissy” cymbals with lyrics that “reflected the language of the streets, particularly Miami’s black ghettos such as Liberty City and Overtown”.[1] Miami bass has never found consistent mainstream acceptance, though it has had a profound impact on the development of drum and bass, Baltimore Club, Southern rap, Funk carioca, and other genres.
1980’s

During the 1980s, the focus of Miami bass tended to be on DJs and record producers, rather than individual performers. Record labels such as Pandisc released much material of the genre. Unterberger has referred to James (Maggotron) McCauley (also known as DXJ, Maggozulu 2, Planet Detroit and Bass Master Khan) as the “father of Miami bass,” a distinction McCauley himself denies, choosing rather to confer that status on producer Amos Larkins.

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PeterRDavey wrote:
January 2010

I added a lot of songs that were good "Bass Music" songs that had no tags or plays or anything. Check them out here: http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/library/tags?tag=bass+music&view=list

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Kevinmus1 wrote:
November 2009

Nice Nice ! :D

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Moggz wrote:
June 2009

This genre classification seems to becoming popular around Bristol and the west midlands I've noticed. It seems to be used to mean anything with phat bass rather than a style in itself. Could be D&B, Dubstep, Breakbeat, house, electro, techno - so long as it's bass led.

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