Every month, countless sub-shaking bass music tracks are released. Too many, I would argue, for anyone to keep up with…
Unless of course you love finding the best bass music every month as much as I do!
Hello everyone, I’m CJ Huntzinger and I’m the new Bass Music Editor for Magnetic Magazine. I’m so excited to show you my favorite tracks from May 2022, which also displays my taste in bass music. I love all styles of bass music, and have been an avid fan of electronic music since 2008.
Here’s My 15 Favorite Bass Tracks of May 2022
Pocket, the latest single from Frison, comes to us from GODTIER, an emerging label and taste curator. Pocket is a wonderful expression in balancing varying sounds and styles while retaining a disciplined approach in song arrangement that keeps the overall sound in a singular identity.
The song sounds as if Koan Sound collaborated with 2011 Skrillex on a jazz inspired bass track. Its fluttering warm pads and plucks contrast the song’s core sound of chunking bass riffs, leaving it consistently fresh and unexpected.
Noisia and Skrillex, two of the names who remain undefeated in bass music and never seem to miss. Horizon is a wonderful display of creativity, restraint, and exploring modern taste with timeless and proven approaches in bass music. The song flirts with subtle nods to nostalgic Skrillex melodies we heard when he was first onto the scene more than 10 years ago.
The track delivers some of the warmest pulsating bass on this chart, while still being calm and soothing. The song’s one-off use of vocal samples that sound like something you would hear in hyperpop or mumble rap keeps the song feeling while fresh while riding onto of top of its classic sound palette.
Raze! by ZCR delivers an incredible wonky groove with borderline terror percussion keeping the song hard, heavy, and dark. It’s one of those tracks that would properly go off in a live setting, mixing the bounce of hip hop with the aggression of dubstep.
It’s a track that sounds simple in sound palette, using a lot of the same sounds throughout, but the arrangement and switch ups keep it fun and fast throughout.
Are we even surprised to find this song here? Nitepunk and X&G, two of the modern masters of sound design, gripping groove, and sound palette pushers, have come together for a seriously intense remix of Nitepunk’s MTV track.
X&G, renowned for their versatility, have taken Nitepunk’s original vision for MTV and double down on the Nitepunk sound, bringing a fresh and yet expected rebirth for the track.
It has some properly wicked percussion and drum rhythms, some of which that can only be pulled of by the wizards who are X&G.
This track, Alt Sequence by totto, is one of the more unique songs I’ve heard in recent memory.
To arrange a song with light ethereal plucks and pads that lead so perfectly into a chorus section made with large bass design and super saws, without relying on a large build up, is no easy feat.
Blasta, by LSDREAM and INZO, checks all the boxes. The track is an absolute smasher. It is large, vibey, dancey, and touches on many tropes across the electronic music sound spectrum, that it would be hard for anyone to not find a part of this song they like.
It’s got some disco, some screamo, plenty of white noise, but also simplistically addictive basslines that you don’t want the song to end.
