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For the last decade, Lorin Ashton has helped develop the North American underground dance music scene. From touring full time as a DJ (an average of 125 shows per year), to his production & remixing under the alias Bassnectar, he has amassed a dedicated fan base, crossing over from hip hop to electronica to breakbeat to raggae/dub to the jam band scene and the greater Burningman scene.

In 2005, Lorin released the first full length Bassnectar CD, Mesmerizing the Ultra, a double album debut on Organic / Amorphous Music, available through Fontana distribution, a division of Universal Music and Video Distribution. Having remixed or collaborated with the likes of, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Buckethead, Michael Kang (The String Cheese Incident), FreQ Nasty, Saul Williams, Noam Chomsky, Cheb i Sabbah, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Crash Berlin, Landslide, Heavyweight Dub Champion & KRS-One, and Perry Farrell, the Bassnectar sound has benefited from a wide lense of exposure, and evolved from cutting edge dance music to where it exists today: a mutant mash-up of multiple styles and genres.

Imagine the heaving bass lines of Drum ‘n’ Bass and Breakbeat (think Dieselboy, Freestylers, Tipper, Aphrodite), the massive beats of old school Hip Hop (think Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Run-D.M.C.), glitchy tones and sonic tricks of modern Electronica/IDM (think Prefuse 73, Plaid, Pest, Underworld, Aphex Twin) all mashed up with hip hop lyrics

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Top Tracks

1	Intro	175
2	Verbing The Noun	130
3	FSOSF	118
4	Carried Away	113
5	Impossible And Overwhelming	101
6	Kyrian Bee Bop	95
7	Mesmerizing The Ultra full track	94
8	Blow full track	89
9	The Sound	70
10	Everybody full track	62
10	Heads Up	62
12	Laughter Crescendo full track	59
12	Until Next Time	59
14	Roustabout (Bassnectar Remix)	51
15	The Wicked Twitch of the West full track	49

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ericman7676 wrote:
Thursday evening

tonight in eugene!

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ThaFruitbat wrote:
12 days ago

Super Sick!

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joiletblog wrote:
last month

Hey Lorin, it's Polish support - review your 3rd LP (official 2nd) : http://joilet.blox.pl/2008/10/Basowa-komunikacja-z-podziemi.html

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theoryjean wrote:
last month

if you guys dig this guy, check out Cutloose. hes been in the lab working a lot and ive heard his upcoming tracks... sound bangin! stay tuned.

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Viki_K wrote:
last month

mega!

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krushgroove wrote:
last month

Blow... DoWew DoWew Dowhoa DO WAB DO WAB .......BWOWW

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dmh wrote:
last month

owning beats

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asienka_ wrote:
September 2008

beautiful

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orion_727 wrote:
September 2008

Dude! Your a fucking god lorin! Keep on pumping out them freakbeats and us beatfreaks will keep on loving 'em! You rock lorin... dont take seeriously that dweeb with an ego/pride issue who challenged you to a battle and took it personally when you said no. He's been flaming on your podcast/posting site about it and its really unfortunate. Anywho..... keep on mixing man!

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sargentNOW wrote:
September 2008

hhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm........

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captainkyle wrote:
September 2008

bassnectar is the shizzzzz

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verse95123 wrote:
September 2008

Sick Beats man!

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ladyinthesky wrote:
September 2008

<3 blessings! I'm diggin the song Mesmerizing the Ultra at the moment....former fav song has to be FSOSF....keep up with the fresh beats. yum!

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toshish wrote:
September 2008

Drop is the Sound! Shout Outs to Lorin for keepin it Ultra!

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thurgoodz wrote:
August 2008

Lorin doesn't usually record shows ( or release them for that matter) except for special occasion. if you can find any of his shows, hold em down bc they do not get released often

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n2102 wrote:
August 2008

w3rd, not sure on thAT

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jtaylor2d wrote:
August 2008

I have yet to find his Rothbury set online. I'm going to assume no one recorded it.

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[deleted-user] wrote:
July 2008

Anyone have a link to his rothbury set?
kudara wrote:
July 2008

I SAW HIM AT BURY best mindfuck EVER

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jtaylor2d wrote:
July 2008

Did anyone see his set at Rothbury Festival in Michigan. I've Bassnectar 6 times over the past year and this set was unlink anything else I've seen him do. A complete mind f***. Couldn't ask for more.

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