“Bassnectar is a re ection BURNING MAN AMORPHOUS MUSIC of that opportunity to give After playing more and more shows in the Bay Beatfreak Bohemia is the title of a 2002 album, back; the motion of my cells "I think it's really important that people have Area, he eventually played nationally and then featuring mixes all done by Lorin, as well a few internationally. Shambala and Burning Man of his original tracks. This ablum is released "I would rather have my mind bouncing back at the world.” freedom to explore, express and be who were some of the first festivals that built him up. under the label Amophous Music, founded and “It surpasses music, it surpasses every- –Lorin Ashton they want to be," Playing at Burning Man each year, he would head-produced by Lorin. He launched future opened by wonder than closed by belief" often play up to seven sets a night. He has albums such as Wildstyle, Divergent Spectrum, thing, and becomes like ghosts meshing played there 12 years but seems to done with it and Vava Voom. Lorin has described his music together and dirty dancing upon elds of “I do not have much insight into for now, although appreciates what it did for as every-chanigng and amorphous, ex- plaining him at the time. Saying, “At that time, there the label’s name. “When someone asks me to MOTIONS, THROBS, invisible electricity, in slow motion, in were few other chances to interact musically go back to my old style or return to my roots, UNDERGROUND the future, but I do think it is important RAVE LIFE DREAMTEMPO some alien time zone across the uni- DIVERGENT SPECTRUM VAVA VOOM to nd what you love, and not focus This was a self-titled album in 2000 that was and culturally with freaks from all around the that's usually a sign that they have no idea what AND MESMERIZING COMMUNICATION The album titled Vava Voom was released in In 1995 Ashton went to his first rave and made recently released in 2013 which showcases his country. I think it’s a great thing and I hope my real style is or what my roots are.” One year after another, Bassnectar plays down- verse.” In the year of 2011, Bassnectar had become so This album is released in 2007 with more 2012, and Bassnectar is getting bigger than on what you hate.” the instant switch to a new culture. He loved the older downtempo beats, which he recorded two people have fun out there.” tempo and breakbeats, evolving and still always successful and had legendary performances at dubstep sounds as well as some hip hop. ever. With his new found fame, he is a strong welcoming beautiful community it had, and the mixes, on side A and B, or a cassette. In this keeping a Bassnectar essence, and comes out Coachella, EDC, Lollapalooza, Electric Forest, Bassnectar says that he goes “beyond my advocate for charity. In 2011, he donated $1 raw, immersive sense of it. Lorin dived into the time he establishes himself as a DJ, producer, with three great albums in a row beginning with Red Rocks and others more year after year. On comfort zone” and works to “expanding the from every ticket sold on his tour to charity via rave community, eventually learning to DJ after and artist based in San Francisco. The year after Motions of Mutation (2003), then Diverse the album of Divergent Spectrum, Bassnectar boundaries of how to make people freak out the "Dollar Per Basshead" campaign that studying electronic music production. Making he released Freakbeats for the Beatfreaks. A Systems of Throb (2004), and Mesmerizing the states, “This is a collection of songs I have and lose their minds” when making new music. amounted to $250,000 distributed between some psychedelic trance, he finds it most fellow DJ and influence on the scene at the “The music that I make ... Ultra (2005). Some of his hit songs include created for maximum impact in large settings on This albums includes songs like Amorphous three charities which were voted upon by fans. similar to death metal, and then began combin- time, once made a sticker for Lorin that read, isn't always intended to satisfy your every Release, The Apathetic, Laughter Crescendo, massive sound systems for groups of people Form, Select Frequency, Kick it Complex, and This is continued even now and averages about ing guitar and his voice, splicing and experi- “Butterfly Beings Drink Bass Nectar”. A year Lullabye, Dubuasca, Breathing, Parade into who want to get wild." need... I think some people get confused Alker Illa Doffer. $100,000 each year. menting with a wide array of music. after this first album was released, he became Centuries, and Pleasure the Bassnympho. LORIN ASHTON METAL HEAD what we all know as Bassnectar. and think I'm trying to please them with TIMESTRETCH Lorin, born in 1978 in the beautiful Santa Cruz, As a freshman in the early 1990’s, Ashton every song I make, COZZA FRENZY Bassnectar is known for his insane light show California and spent his youth years in the Bay started mastering beats on drums and incorpo- and I'm not.” Bassnectar’s performances never cease to be the performances and bass loud enough to rumble area. Growing up here, Lorin always had high rating complex rhythm that led to his deep roots spectacular show. While onstage, he is “com- people into frenzies. In 2010, the album “I think it's important and extremely interest in the visual arts. Around the age of 10, in the death metal scene. He started a band, “I do not think human beings have the capacity “I'm not really ever sitting down to create bining unlimited loops and sound sand samples Timestretch comes out that includes songs like empowering to remind yourself what he was creating movies with his dad’s camera Pale Existence, and played while promoting an album. I'm just creating adventures, and effects into customized ‘live remixes’” as he Here We Go, Timestretch, and the famous hit and to this day his love for the visual arts is underground shows with insane energy and to fully understand the universe, says, and, “also get the fuck down, I let myself song Bass Head. The Bassnectar movement has you do have, to be grateful for it.” apparent in his performances. He got a crappy moshpits. His biggest influences, such as and yet I think attempting to understand it is and those adventures are intended to be dance and enjoy the music”. The album titled resulted in a community of like-minded fans guitar after begging his parents, but still doesn’t Metallica, Megadeth, and Nirvana can be heard reinvented night after night It's just like a Cozza Frenzy is released in 2009 and includes that refer to themselves as "Bass Heads" and know music theory. Mostly he would remix the in songs of his like “Pennywise Tribute”, “Boo- how we discover beauty.” popular songs such as Teleport Massive, Boom- travel frequently and far distances to attend his songs he already knew. merang” and “Killing in the Name of”. time capsule.” box, Window Seat and Are You Ready. live performances.