Headphone Commute’s Best of 2012 : Music For Vibrating Your Neighbors’ Dusty China

Music evolution spins in cycles. A new development in sound hoards a following of copycats, too anxious to proliferate the world with the nuclear output of their laptops. There are some that fail. There are some that surf along with the wave before it breaks, emerging from nowhere and receding back to nothing. And then there are some who push the genre just a tiny bit further. Here’s to the pioneers of the continuously evolving bass sound, helping me keep my neighbors far away…

NOTE: ALL ENTRIES ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY ARTIST


Clubroot
Clubroot (III – MMXII)
Lo Dubs

Darling Farah
Body
Civil Music

Distal
Civilization
Tectonic

Ital Tek
Nebula Dance
Planet Mu

Liar
Strange Love
Infinite Machine

Mala
Mala In Cuba
Brownswood

Planas
The Long Game
Exceptional

Reso
Tangram
Civil Music

Scuba
Personality
Hotflush

Submotion Orchestra
Fragments
Exceptional