Summer bass music hits differently. The open-air shows, festival stages, pool parties, and even indoor clubs during the summer months bring hotter energy to bass music.
This month’s charts bring a sound palette with the euphoric sounds of Seven Lions, warm subwoofer sonics from Peekaboo, the ethereal arps of juuku, a neck-breaking banger from Vastive, a vibey slow-down track from Brothel, barnacle boi, and Derek Pope, and much more.
Whether you’re hanging out at home, pregaming for a festival, searching for sound design inspiration as a producer, or just wanting to push your speakers to the limits – there is something for everyone here.
The order of the tracks is eclectic, not organized as a DJ might play them, but unpredictable to keep your ears fresh as you work your way through the playlist.
Here is your playlist with the 15 best bass music tracks of July 2022.
Slumber by Heimanu, a trendsetter in wave, brings an energy level that combines the best of dubstep inspiration with hard and heavy wave sounds. Not straying from his success recipe, the interludes bring subtly uplifting arps and pads to remove you momentarily from the chaos that is the song’s chorus.
The call and response arrangement of the drop continually keeps the song feeling new and is impressively catchy.
Kanedas Dream, by Azaleh, Stasys & Alydian, puts you into a head nodding dream world. The variety in atmosphere, energy, and sound design across the track ranges from glitchy organic bass bop, to slower atmospheric tropes that feels like you’re in a serene villa.
The sound carries flavors of Koan Sound as the percussion crunches and the melodies flutter across the sound field.
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Seven Lions, one of, if not the flagship artist of melodic bass music, comes to us this month with Every Time featuring So Below. It has the classic Seven Lions sound we expect from him with a larger than life euphoric chorus. The track carries on into a more classic dubstep second drop that operates as a nice contrast to the sound we love Seven Lions for.
Secrecy is an incredible track. The song is simple, heavy, atmospheric, dark and warm. It brings the old school dubstep concepts to a modern sound without compromising either era’s roots. Peekaboo perfectly switches the song up throughout its duration while remaining focused on what makes the song so good – simplicity. I would love to hear this in a dark, fog machine filled room with low lighting.
Godtier is back with a work of art EP from Vari titled Deconstruct. Gainer is the first track on the EP, and opens with a seemingly french house inspired riff that quickly reverts into Vari’s heavy sound. The first drop breaks around and transitions into a cyberpunk sounding radio vocal chop that puts you into a future rave setting. The song is relentless while giving you a necessary slow down between choruses.
The ethereal arp bass sound never ceases to lack creativity from the producers who make it. Home, by juuku, perfectly marries a more eclectic sound in the opening half of the song with a simplified chord progression at the mid way point. The song brings a feeling of nostalgia but also future minded and looking forward, which is fitting for its “come back home” vocal sample.
