MAN RECORDINGS INSPIRATION SERIES #15 : MANTRONIX
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Besides “Planet Rock”, “Bassline” by Mantronix is probably the 2nd most important song in the genealogy of the Man Recordings sound. “Bassline” includes, in it´s minimalist essence, the three elements our label is all about: Bass, Beats and Raps. In music history, “Bassline” is one of the first tracks to use a Roland 303 as bassline generator (though the video above shows a TR-909) and is not only considered a mile stone in new school rap, being released in the same year like Run DMC´s “King Of Rock” and LL Cool J´s “Radio”, but also one of the main tracks to sow the seeds out of which Detroit Techno grew.
