October: 8 bass releases you need to hear this month

Galtier 'Myth Codes' (Infinite Machine)

For anyone concerned with experimental club music, the past several years have been a confusing and exciting time. We’ve got access to more music than ever, which means more widespread influences are creeping into everything, especially the quick-moving underground. Genres are dissolving faster than the discourse around it can define what’s happening. That’s the scene that Bristol-based producer Galtier and Montreal-based label Infinite Machine seem most invested in. Suitably, Galtier seems to work a lot of different reference points into his three originals. Opener 'Chain', which uses the sound of a chain dropping as percussive cymbal, starts with dubstep heft but breaks down into bumping bassline swing and off-beat kick. 'Gold Bones' may ultimately be four to the floor but the snares have a nice shimmy and the synths go grime. ‘Charm Complex’ finds the military stomp used so effectively by Jam City, who many would point to as ground zero for this scene. Throw in pulsing remixes of 'Chain' by Iydes (co-founder of London club night Tropical Waste) and 'Gold Bones' by Sam West of the Sans Absence label, and you’ve got an entertaining take on club dissolution.

7/10