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valerian_777 · Post by **valerian_777** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 8:53 pm

Nowdays it's more about the sound itself then groovy sequences: Preferable long notes which are sidechained to create a kind of groove which isn't there if you looking at the blank notes.

Asking myself is there any genre left where the synth bass in all his beauty still exists? EDM is occupied by wobble and sidechain.

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 9:07 pm

Depends what you are listening too,

https://soundcloud.com/mulletrecords

Plenty of Synth Basslines on the label above...

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:12 pm

Interesting very early use of a 303 (in 1983):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESy-Z8vqMrE

SODDI · Post by **SODDI** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:36 pm

You mean like this? The whole song is pertnear all synth bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVB_DI4ajKA

fluffy_little_something · Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:24 pm

Love the way this bass sounds, especially the pitch bending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ2g58kV890

KushiQ · Post by **KushiQ** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:53 pm

Hello together, my 5th Post here on KVR, so sorry if something went wrong, especially my English (School time is a la la la la long ago), but your 80´s Bassline-Posts are cool.
@fluffy - The Imagination Pitchbend Bass still works.

I also like the Basslines in all of the 80´s Kashif Productions too.
For Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu5xfnU ... 6E403A1DF6

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 2:32 pm

Music needs to hit hard these days, these synth basslines you posted are just too weak to come back.

Chris-S · Post by **Chris-S** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 3:53 pm

Fashion comes and goes in waves. Today wobble bass is in, but times will turn.

fluffy_little_something · Sun Jan 25, 2015 3:59 pm

KushiQ wrote:Hello together, my 5th Post here on KVR, so sorry if something went wrong, especially my English (School time is a la la la la long ago), but your 80´s Bassline-Posts are cool.
@fluffy - The Imagination Pitchbend Bass still works.
I also like the Basslines in all of the 80´s Kashif Productions too.
For Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu5xfnU ... 6E403A1DF6

Yeah, synth basses seem to be mostly a black music thing for whatever reason, countless artists used to have them.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:03 pm

The 80s stole them all

Passing Bye · Post by **Passing Bye** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:03 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ft8yL7VLR4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_AkmtLscgk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fByfmqoRCIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPnragobpto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8FiamBW84c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81vz5F5vGAA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDUbfykSibg

JoeCat · Post by **JoeCat** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:49 am

All the bass on Thriller (especially the Moogs on the title track).

I'm not a musically nostalgic, but I don't think we're ever going back to something like that, and talent like Quincy Jones and MJ.

80's bass - while not synth bass (Steve Webster), this is one ridiculously awesome (and underrated) baselines, IMHO, of all of "pop":

(oops - I believe it was Sal Cuevas on that track)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlXcF0WwFTI

JoeCat · Post by **JoeCat** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:58 am

I just realized too: That same year, interestingly enough, the biggest hit also used a Linn but had NO bass: "When Doves Cry".

JoeCat · Post by **JoeCat** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:05 am

Crap, now I can't stop. 1984 was, in fact, an awesome year for pop/bass.

This (synth and electric, though not sure what synth). And who the f*** writes chord changes like this anymore? You have to wade through the pre-chorus AND chorus to resolve to the root. Now I am getting musically nostalgic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSaC-YbSDpo#t=210

dusted william · Post by **dusted william** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:21 am

I was never a fan of borderline, but you're right. The progression is great. Love how much tension builds in the chorus. Gonna have to copy this structure for one of my songs next month.

And that discopolis is wicked. man I wish I wrote that groove.

Thanks for the post (s), and inspiration.

dw

Where have all the synth bass lines gone?