FreeBass April 25 2019

Some great tunes on this month's show. Really pleased to be playing the new E.M.U. release, which is a not so new re-release from the early 90's Lot's of other great tunes in here too, so check it out. 





Tracklist

Gary Gritness - Big Marcus Knows the Score

E.M.U. - Structures 4

Carl W. Scheele - Liquid Phlogiston

96_Back-Tripp_d_Isle

Luxus Varta - Quark

Rawtary - Morning Render

NAIL - 1987

Alpha 606 and Sync 24 - Lunar Passport

Cody Commando - Kontrol

Anthony Rother - Freaks

ADT - Departure for Peace

Alavux- Repetitor

Binary System - On Your Mind

Arcane Dialect - Moving Mirrors

 Gravedad Cinética -Electroluminescent (The Bandit Remix)

Mono_Martini_N.N._Original_Mix

Fitzroy_North - Animate

Robert Cosmic - Sentimiento Underground

Batch Sound - The Chase is On

John Cellway - Stars in the Gutter

DVS NME - Cloud Orbit

CYBEREIGN - Right Herr

Buzzkill - When the Smoke Clears

Mr. Velcro Fastner - A Monster in Two Worlds

David Pasajero - Out Of Mind

Mandroid - Anti-Gravity Machines

AMR - Minerate

Newcleus - Technology (DJ Xed remix)

scape one - mental inertia - 02 pentagrid converter

Egyptian Lover and Q-Bert - Beyond the Galaxy

Foundation - Bring it Back

Robodrum - Army of Droids

Overclock vs Code Rising - Trigraph

Dub Species vs Ten Sui - The Dose

Lektroid - Piano

Kretz - Electronic Warriors

Kurt Baggaley - Happy Frontiers

FreeBass on Global Funk radio March 28 2019

March's shows is half Electro, half Drum and Bass /Jungle

FreeBass on Global Funk Radio February 28, 2019

      My February show on Global Funk radio. thank you to all the artists who make this great music.  

FreeBass on Global Funk Radio February 28, 2019

     February's FreeBass show on Global Funk Radio. thanks for all the great music by the artists that make this show possible. 

Fundamental Bass Intelligence Goes Big w/ 2x12 Compilation

From Electric Kingdom magazine

"Seminal label Fundamental Bass Intelligence (FBI) is set to take the on-demand record trend to the next level, by laying it all on the line with their upcoming "11:11 - The Fundamental Compilation" release. Using the record service Qrates, FBI plans on releasing this extraordinary compilation on a 2 colored vinyl LP, if, and only if, the funding goal for 100 copies is met! In the unlikely event the funding goal is not met, the entire compilation will be immediately available for free download, no questions asked.
Set to go live in early 2019, "11:11 - The Fundamental Compilation" features some of the biggest names in Electro today: Dark Vektor, Exzakt, James Wolfe and Bixler, Errorbeauty and Serge Geyzel, Sbassship, Nexus 23, Deemphasis, Cybereign, Mauro Nakimi, Nuklear Prophet, and Ascension Électronique, all fundamentally essential Electro artists who will imprint the grooves of this 2x12" compilation.
Proposed vinyl version of 11:11 - The Fundamental Compilation © Fundamental Bass Intelligence/Qrates
The first track to preview by Mauro Nakimi is a dark, brooding, bassy plunge into the Fundamental Electro sound that foreshadows a release that is not to be missed. More details coming soon on Electric Kingdom and the upcoming new FBI website!
In the meantime, listen to "Slaves of Sion" by Mauro Nakimi: https://soundcloud.com/mauronakimi/mauro-nakimi-slaves-of-sion-fundamental-bass-intelligence

Baltimore Orioles Help Raise Money for the Blind

Recently, the Baltimore Orioles traded in their uniforms with their name written with the alphabet for uniforms with their names spelled out in Braille. The gesture was not just a publicity stunt, however. It was part of the National Federation of the Blind night. In this first of its kind event, celebrating the NFB moving to Baltimore, the team will auction off the Braille uniforms to benefit the NFB. This is a great thing on a variety of different levels.

     First, it directly benefits the NFB who provide needed services to the blind community. My white cane was generously provided by the NFB. It is my second white cane from them. I shut my first cane in a car door. They provided the second cane no questions asked. Programs like the NFB night at the Oriole game fund these types of things. Second and perhaps just as important is bringing awareness to blindness. A lot of people haven’t been around blind people. Put on some shades, grab a cane and go tapping around your local mall. You’ll get treated like an invading alien. People just don’t know what to do with a blind person. My wife gets annoyed by the looks we get when we are out. “Yes, a blind guy has a wife and kids.” “Yes, this blind guy is on a date with his hot wife.” Shocking!

      What is also shocking is to see and hear people saying this was an empty gesture by the Orioles. Those who say this is an empty gesture because people can’t go down and read the Braille on the uniforms miss the point. The Braille is not for the blind people. Of course, it is useless to a blind person, or even a sited person sitting in the stands, but the point is to bring attention to the NFB and it’s time in Baltimore with an added fundraising bonus.

"There's no Such thing as a Free Lunch Kid!"

      Recently, I joined a “Buy Nothing” group on Facebook. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of these groups they are based on the idea that your neighbors have most things you need, all you have to do is “ask”. On the flip side, you have most things your neighbors need, so you can offer up stuff to “gift”. To date, I’ve had to buy stuff, but it was nice to gift the linoleum scrap and pieces of sheet rock that were sitting in my shed. It turns out the group can provide some entertainment too. I did some gifting on Friday that threw me for a loop, and is still giving me a laugh when I think of it.

     We wanted to get rid of our freezer in the shed that uses too much electricity, but there were two frozen chickens in it we just couldn’t throw away. No friends came to mind that we could give them to, so I  posted on the “Buy Nothing” group a “Gift” of the two ill fated birds. It only took about five minutes for two of my fellow South Tacomans to comment “please consider”. I went out to the shed to get the two cadavers, and surprisingly found two more in the bottom of the freezer, and posted those up. They were claimed just as quickly, with a neighbor wanting two of them. One nice person came to get one of the frozen fowls Thursday night, and the other two people wanted to come Friday morning. Sure enough, around 9:45 pm, a friendly carnivore texted me that they were coming over to get the poor poultry. I texted back the universal “K” to signal come on over. She assured me they were just right around the corner, so I went to the freezer and put two of the frozen lumps of bone and flesh in a reusable shopping bag and placed them by the front door. I grabbed two because I wasn’t sure if this person wanted one or two of the remaining corpses.

     About ten minutes later the door bell rang and I went to the door and opened it.

“Hi, are you Nancy here for the chicken”, I said, like it would be anyone else.

“Yes, I’m here to get one.” She replied.

     I confirmed she wasn’t the person who wanted two of the bloody birds and reached down and grabbed one of the frozen five pound dead beasts out of the bag. The lady was standing about three feet from the door. I opened the security door, and with my left hand stretched out to pass it to her. Well, there was just one problem with my seemingly innocent plan. I mean after all what could go wrong? I’m just passing off a frozen bird that had been locked in a cage for a couple months, fattened up, had its head cut off, gutted and precisely defeathured. Like I said, this is a happy story, what could go wrong? No one is going to get hurt, if you don’t count the dead bird of course.

    To my shock, the kid (I heard make a slight peep earlier) face was in between his mother and me. As I reached out with my left hand to pass over the block of bird, BOOM right in the child’s face. I hit the kid in the nose, blood everywhere. He was crying and screaming.

“The mean man hit me in the face with the chicken leg, Momma!” He cried.

     Channeling my internal Smokey from Friday, I retorted,

 “Daaaaaaaamn, kid you got knocked the fuck out!”

     Just kidding! The five pound bird wacked the kid right in the kisser, but there was thankfully no blood.

“Oh no”, I said quickly, “I’m blind, I’m so sorry!”

     The aggrieved tike didn’t make too much noise, so I knew I hadn’t hurt him too badly, but I was still terrified. I had just hit a kid in the face with a dead animal that was at least as hard as a bowling ball. The mom seemed a little stunned, but just muttered something like “ok”, as I said a couple more times “I’m so sorry, I’m blind”. I would tell you the look on her face, but you know…

     Then I addressed the kid.

“You came over to get a chicken, and got hit in the face. Sorry about that.”  

     The kid was still not crying, so I started feeling a little relief from my panic. The mom started explaining to the kid the bird was frozen that’s why it was so hard.

I said, “My bad!” again, and started shutting the door.

     Their truck started up, good thing the dad didn’t notice I hit his kid in the face with a dead bird, and they walked down the steps and left. I shut the door and just shook my head: “Blind Guy Doing Stuff”

     I was thinking about this all through the rest of the day. What could I have done to avoid this situation? I really couldn’t come up with anything. I don’t really want to tell every person that comes to my door about my exceptionality. I’ve thought of wearing a hat that says “I’m Blind”, but that’s too much. In this case I did come up with something, but it won’t help me too much in the future. I was so caught off guard by the whole thing; my inner smart ass failed me. I should have said to the kid and mom. “This just goes to show you kid, there’s no such thing as a free lunch!” Oh well, maybe next time I’ll remember this line when I hit a kid in the face with a frozen poultry product.