elecunderground
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- Mar 14, 2007
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Bass Clef is giddy club/live act and analogue fetishist of the bottom end kind, bypassing laptop/looping and fully embracing a heavy and warm sound. Bass Clef has a heady combination of big bass, dirty high-end and lilting melodies floating through all his trks. Ringing cow-bells, woozy trombone blasts and theremin effects all spice up his deep, deliciously rhythmic undertow.
A firm festival favourite he has played Bloc, Sonar, Big Chill, Glade, Venn, Free Funk. As happy in a club Fabric, Sub Club, Corsica Studios with Perverlist, Toddla T, Benga, Pole, Omar Souleyman, Pinch or on the live circuit playing with Konono No1, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Lee Perry, Shackleton. Live Bass Clef unstraightens any dancefloor. Recently he played with 6 piece live and eclectic jazz band at the London Jazz Festival Southbank and a mega club show with the Magic Drum Orchestra (a 10 piece drum band).
“He’s a badass one-man band of bass. He shakes songs out of his arms and lungs that come in somewhere between dubstep and wonky carnival with his club sets sneaking in splashes of old school UK garage and blasts of full frontal techno. “ Clash
“Ralf Cumbers has occupied a niche position as an experimentalist outsider within the wider dubstep community. With his sophomore LP 'May The Bridges I Burn Light The Way' he expands on his theme of elastic bass and beats with trombone, including extra percussion from Frank Byng and Brass from The Hackney Memorial Free Jazz Marching Band...a diverse yet tightly engineered work that should earn him respect far beyond dubstep circles. Recommended! ” Boomkat
“The album’s landscape is dominated during its first two thirds by frenetic, obsessive 2-step rhythms populated by Cumbers’ cacophonous cavalcade of exotic percussion, bells, whistles and even a theremin. Here songs like Hackney Lionheart and You Do My Head In are boisterous dancefloor tracks revealing the years spent honing this experimental project around the world’s clubs.” BBC
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