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The songs contained on this bad boy right here were taken from various sources and re-mastered. The songs were chosen on the criteria of being   "sample" free, in terms of, well you know...

Tracks 1-9 are fairly familiar with most of you hardcore fans out there, however what makes this a pretty cool starter set for those you out there is the inclusion of some lesser known jams, like "Drop that Beat" and "Bassing the Night Away". Another cool thing about this particular regurgitation of songs you should all know and love is how you can see the different production formulas used by DXJ

You will also note a few tracks from Basstech DXJ's Basslander CD appear here. Fraulein Werner gets its name from one of DXJ's Great-grandmother who was of German descent. Zingen Zangen Gezungen also a German themed song is one of DXJ's favorites of that production style, meaning that it is all sp1200, with all of the low sample rate grit and grime shining thru!

The packaging is pretty standard fare as you can see, Pandisc's aim was to have something sort of like your standard fare "Greatest Hits" type of thing, with the "added value" of some sort of written essay. Yes Bass Fans one reason that validates your choice to fork over the cash for this  this collection, would be of course other than blind fanatical devotion are the unedited liner notes! Yes unedited! Just like back in the day! Also a quick and easy guide to the Miami Production style is included for you upstarts. Wow! Whippy dip!

Here's a small sample:

" ...What a difference a beat makes, for this is not your average sterile exercise in CarAudioism, nor does it contain the obligatory self aggrandizing and self consuming "I"anglisms common to the Blingonlians of the current Crunkasaurian Era! You will also not find any of the oh so fluffy yet cloyingly sweet psuedo-bassisms currently pimped out to the masses by the "Hotter Than thou" big name producers of today, no, for what you have in your possession at this very moment, oozing out of your speakers like primordial quad are indeed the "Ultimate Bass Trax!""
Also if you already have a copy you will notice the very small inclusion of some Japanese culture, this is a sort of "preview" to the theme of the much anticipated new CD being worked on!

Personnel

Return To The Bass Planet:
DXJ: Roland TR808 and Roland Juno 106, percussion, Keyboards, sequencers and Vocals.
Jose Martin: Guitars
Claudio "DJ Debonair" Barrella: Turntables 
Urban Fantasy:
DXJ: Roland TR808 and Roland Juno 106, Roland D50 Sampler, percussion, Keyboards, sequencers and Vocals.
Jose Martin: Guitars
Coming Back to Bass:
DXJ:Sp1200 and Roland Juno 106, percussion, Keyboards, sequencers and Vocals.
Jose Martin: Guitars
Paul "DJ Extraordinaire" Elalouf: Turntables. 
Miami's Rockin' Baby:
DXJ: Background Vocals, percussion,stuff.
Jose Martin: Guitars
Jude "Smokey Dee" Hayes: Vocals
Beatmaster Clay D: Emu SP1200
Bass Vibrations:
DXJ: Roland TR808 , Roland Juno 106, percussion, Keyboards and Vocals.
Paul Napolitano: Guitars
How Deep Is Your Bass:
DXJ: Roland TR808, Vocals.
Ron Sansone: Keyboards
Psychotic Bass Babble:
DXJ: Roland TR808 and Vocals.
Jose Martin: Guitars
Bass The Joint:
DXJ: Emu SP1200 and Roland Juno 106, percussion, Keyboards, sequencers and Vocals.
Jose Martin: Guitars
Paul "DJ Extraordinaire" Elalouf: Turntables 
Zingen, Zangen, Gezungen:
DXJ: Emu SP1200, Turntables
Bass Soldiers:
DXJ:SP1200, Turntables
Bass is Good!:
DXJ: Emu SP1200 and various Keyboard Rack Modules, Roland W-30.
Ryder Beats:
DXJ: Emu SP1200.
John Fifeld: Guitars
Jock D, DJ Swift: Turntables.
James Warren: Trombone. 
Drop That Beat:
DXJ: Roland W-30 Workstation, Akai CD 3000 Sampler.
Fraulien Werner :
DXJ: Roland W-30 Workstation, Emu SP 1200, various Roland and Emu keyboard  modules.
Bassing the Nite Away:
DXJ:  Roland W-30 Workstation, Emu SP 1200, various Roland and Emu keyboard  modules

You can purchase this CD at various Brick and block music stores as well as at Amazon.com and Itunes. You can even cop one from Pandisc on line!

 

 

 

 

Track Listing with Comments:

1. Return To The Bass Planet
(DJ Madness And Dr. Boom's In Search of The Bass Planet Remix)
Maggotron
One of the all time classic Bass Jams, here in its stripped down instrumental glory!

2. Urban Fantasy
(DJ Madness And Dr. Boom's Bass In Tha' Burbs Remix)
Maggozulu Too
This track gets some serious mileage! It was originally written for Palmer Force Two, and a recording exists in the Jamron Vaults with Them doing the vocals! DXJ has always been partial to this one, and once it was recorded again as "Maggozulu too" it has been included here and there when a slot needs filling with some good old fashioned Maggotron styled bass funk!

3.Coming Back To Bass
(DJ Madness And Dr. Boom's Back Trackin Bass Remix)
Maggotron
This track is one of several that were done using the basic formula used for "Welcome to the Bass Planet" and "Return", with one difference to the formula, the sp1200 takes over the drum machine chores, as it was so much more easy to sync up and program and less temperamental than the TR 808!

4. Miami's Rockin' Baby
(DJ Madness And Dr. Boom's My Ami Jamz Remix)
Maggotron Crushing Crew Featuring Smokey Dee
This of course is the instrumental version of the Jam: Miami's Rockin' Baby! This track also features the unique drum machine programming of Clay D! Some of you will recognize the beat as being the same exact one from "I Seen Your boyfriend" well, Pandisc bought the song and the master tape, and from the beat, DXJ constructed a song that captures and promotes the Miami Bass Sound. It's equal parts remix and collaboration, if you will...

5. Bass Vibrations
(DJ Madness And Dr. Boom's Track Vibes Remix)
Maggotron
Bass Vibrations is another example of a particular "formula" for mainly Album tracks for Maggotron. The Formula being a simple yet funky TR 808 Beat, supplemented with some live keyboards or guitar or sometimes even an accordion, courtesy of Ron Sansone! There is a master tape with about 6 or 7 songs on it labeled 8/88, this is one of those songs that made the final cut, one that didn't is  "Gator Bass" ... don't ask!

6. How Deep Is Your Bass
(DJ Madness And Dr. Boom's That Middle Deep Remix)
Maggotron
Another track like "Bass Vibrations", however this one only came out as a cut on Ultimate Bass Trax "Tha middle deep", the sparse keyboard line is a reference to How deep is your Love by Andy Gibb...get it?

7. Psychotic Bass Babble
(DJ Madness And Dr. Boom's Bass Therapy Remix)
Maggotron
Similar in formula to tracks 5 and 6 this is a tasty instrumental version of the album cut from "The Invasion Will Not be Televised..." it is pretty much an homage to Funkadelic's classic "Let's take it to the stage"

8. Bass The Joint
(DJ Madness And Dr. Boom's Bass To Tha Point Remix)
Maggotron
Done in the same style as Coming back to Bass, this is one of DXJ'S favorites. It is probably the best of that formula/style.

9. Zingen Zangen Gezungen
(DJ Madness And Dr. Boom's Bass Waffen Remix)
Maggozulu Too
Listen real close to this SP1200 spectacular and you can hear a  variation of the requisite 'Trans Europe Express' melody played with a sample that sounds like a comical rendition of a frog jumping, which also ties in to some of the German Language stuff on the original version! Yes sir, that late 80's early 90's workhorse the Emu SP1200 and all of its low sample rate induced grit and grime shining thru on this gem!

10. Bass Soldiers

(The Original DJ Madness And Dr. Boom Bass Soldaten Mix)
BassTech DXJ
Stick DXJ in a room with a Few sound effects records and an SP1200 and this is what may happen!

11. Bass is Good!
(The Original DJ Madness And Dr. Boom Bass Es Is Gut Mix)
BassTech DXJ
Stick DXJ in a room with a German Language Instructional  Record an SP1200 and  a few keyboard modules and this is what may happen!

12. Ryder Beats
(The Original DJ Madness and Dr. Boom Bassryder Mix)
BassRyder
A rare Instrumental from the "Bass Man of the Acropolis" CD. Actually this is the title track of that CD! This track features some turntable action from DJ Swift and Jock D, as well as a Trombone solo. The production style is SP1200 and this track as well as some of the others on the Acropolis CD are some of the last of that production style, DXJ had pretty much wore out the "how much can I squeeze out of an SP-1200" style by 1992. There is a tape or two of unreleased sp1200 songs that are all done except for mixing, but because of the "end of the sampling era" they remain mothballed. The lyrics and themes will probably resurface in other tracks.

13. Ryder Patrol COPS in tha MIA
(The Original DJ Madness and Dr. Boom Bassryder Mix)
BassRyder
Stick DXJ in a room with an Akai sampler in the Mid 1990's a few sample  loop CDs an SP1200 and a few keyboard modules and this is what may happen!

14. In The Valley of the Bass

(DJ Madness and Dr. Boom's Valley of the Bass Instrumental Mix)
BassTech DXJ
One of the first if not the first track done with The Roland W-30 workstation, after going thru a rather long period of doing pure SP1200 songs, this track and the subsequent Basstech DXJ album marked a return to Keyboard based tracks.

15. Drop That Beat
(DJ Madness And Dr. Boom's The Electro Breakz Volume One Mix)
BreakBeat X-press
One of the earliest examples several songs produced using a formula About 20 tracks in the style of "Drop that Beat" were recorded for a break beat style album that never saw the light of day. A conspiracy theorist could conclude that recorded by DXJ in the mid to late 90's which were best described as break-beat style, yes boys and girls there are more tracks like Drop that beat lying around the moldy vaults at Pandisc.

16 Fraulien Werner
(DJ Madness and Dr. Boom's Original Basslander Album Mix)
BassTech DXJ

Fraulein Werner gets its name from one of DXJ's Great-grandmother who was of German descent. Astute and observant mugs out there (like maybe yourself) will recognize the production style as being quite similar to the Digital Love Muscle CD, which leads us to the next track... !

17. Bassing the Nite Away
(DJ Madness and Dr. Boom's Original Bass Jams For Lovers Mix)
Digital Love Muscle
This cut is from  the seriously slept on "Bass Jams for Lovers Album" by the Ineptly named pseudo-group "Digital Love Muscle". The idea was simple, a series of all original music Bass Jams, in a series Slow, Mid tempo and fast, about 3 albums worth were done programmed up at the Bass labs, 2 Slow albums, 1 mid-tempo. The "Group" name was supposed to be Bass Jam Cartel, making placing it in the racks at retailers idiot proof...Bass Jam (in the title), Bass Jam (in the Name). In act of outright treason, at the last minute Paindisc decided to name it as being done by "Digital Love Muscle" Some of the other songs done in this style, but not on this album were eventually recorded and wound up here and there, such as Phantoms on the Bassryder Cd. Back to the concept, these slow jams were designed to be played in a co-ed environment. Sure slow bass jams were already out by 1992, but these contained none of the clichéd moans and groans present on other Bass slow jams. Panic disc has also renamed some of these tracks here and there, and on some of the early music download sites, a few of these songs would actually get downloaded at a respectable rate.

 

 

 

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