UK bass

Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox music genre UK bass, also called bass music, is club music that emerged in the United Kingdom during the mid-2000s under the influence of diverse genres such as house, grime, dubstep, Future garage, R&B, and UK funky.<ref name="ra">Template:Cite web</ref> The term "UK bass" came into use as artists began ambiguously blending the sounds of these defined genres while maintaining an emphasis on percussive, bass-led rhythm.<ref name="sound">Template:Cite web</ref>

UK bass is sometimes conflated with bassline or post-dubstep.<ref name=P>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="guardiansam">Template:Cite news</ref> It is not to be confused with the hip hop and electro-based genre Miami bass, which is sometimes called "bass music" as well.<ref>See for example: Allmusic biography on electro act Dynamix II.</ref>

Origins

The breadth of styles that have come to be associated with the term preclude it from being a specific musical genre. Pitchfork writer Martin Clark has suggested that "well-meaning attempts to loosely define the ground we're covering here are somewhat futile and almost certainly flawed. This is not one genre. However, given the links, interaction, and free-flowing ideas… you can't dismiss all these acts as unrelated."<ref name=P /> Dubstep producer Skream is quoted in an interview with The Independent in September 2011 as saying:

The word dubstep is being used by a lot of people and there were a lot of people being tagged with the dubstep brush. They don't want to be tagged with it and shouldn't be tagged with it – that's not what they're pushing... When I say 'UK bass', it's what everyone UK is associated with so it would be a lot easier if it was called that."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In the United Kingdom, bass music has had major mainstream success since the late 2000s and early 2010s, with artists such as James Blake,<ref name=P/> Benga, Burial, SBTRKT, Sophie, Rustie, Zomby,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Skream.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The term "post-dubstep" has been used synonymously to refer to artists, such as Blake and Mount Kimbie whose work draws on UK garage, 2-step, and other forms of underground dance music, as well as ambient music and early R&B.<ref name="S">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Outside of nightclubs, UK bass has mainly been promoted and played on Internet radio stations such as Sub.FM and Rinse FM.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>