ILLUSTRATION: KATE MOROSS
STYLISTS: LOLA OKUYIGA AND KYLIE GRIFFITHS Bassline house was born in a magic place called the North of England, mainly in rainy, violent, miserable towns like Sheffield and Leeds. For most Brits, their first introduction to bassline house was to hear it blasted out of car-stereo subwoofers by thuggish, murderous poor kids with too much gel in their hair and fancy shirts that you can’t make fun of them for wearing or else they will cut your face open. The cars were usually cheap Citroëns, modified to within an inch of their lives with blue neon strips shining from underneath them and windows tinted so dark that it must be illegal and clouds of skunky weed smoke pouring out of them and… You get the idea. That was who liked bassline house first. We recently went to a bassline house night in Leeds to meet some of the punters. Come along…
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