Bassnectar’s All Colors album is collection of music is specially produced for people of all colors, all nations, all walks of life, and all races. The 15-track electronic music release celebrates diversity, inclusivity, and unity and features collaborations with producers YOOKiE, UFO!, and DJ Pound as well as MCs and vocalists Blakkamoore, AshEL SeasunZ, Rodney P, Zion I, and Sati Ananda.
The first track, “Interpret The Future,” takes sounds and synth loops from long ago and breathes new life into a dawning, shimmering opening. Bassnectar collaborator Yookie writes, “Open Your Mind,” is self explanatory: we want you to wake up, think critically, think outside the box, be smart and reasonable and constructive when the world overwhelms you with noise and disinformation. “All Colors” is one hundred percent a social justice anthem featuring vocalist Blakkamore, “All human beings are created equal regardless of race or gender, and we amplify that.”
UFO! and Bassnectar collaborate on the original track, “Deep In The Jungle,” which started off as a planet earth love song about climate change and protecting the environment, and wove in a throwback nod to chopped up breakbeats and the sublime sounds of junglist culture. “Rewind The Track” lets AshEL Seasunz rip it up over a headbanger drop that is purely about the love of music while Apashe & Instasamka generously allowed this collection to feature a Bassnectar flip of their very special song “Uebok Gotta Run.” Rodney P brings expert experience and decades of devotion to the culture with “Nice & Easy,” an undulating slapper with maximum heaviness followed by a new collaboration with Zion I, The Antidote, a slithering symphony of synthesizers which meet 808 depth and big bendy leads…west side underground.
The new Bassnectar collaboration with DJ Pound, “Off The Grid,” is the perfect combination of two friends who think in the same forgotten language of peace, love, unity & respect: old school rave culture meets crushing off-grid bassline grindcore.
The Bass Remedy Remix of “Empathy” gives back the love with 100% of the profits from this track going directly to charity orgs that help children in need – and we’re starting the donations with St. Jude Children’s Hospital. “Rise & Shine” symbolizes the entire cycle of a day, from deep inside a dream it unfolds into morning, bursting into broad daylight, the intensity of the sun, the activity of life, then fading down into darkness and back into the trance of dreams. West Coast Lo Fi got to play deep in the dub and enjoyed the true honor of working with Born I’s amazing children Siddha and Sati Ananda. Then traveling back two decades to revamp the remix of Michael Franti’s musical masterpiece “Skin On The Drum” – in time, all is revealed; Box of Light – be unsealed. The album’s finale track, “Optimism,” started so long ago, and then went unfinished and forgotten – yet has always been calling from the distance – finally free to play inside your heart and soul. Much love & Respecronic
