Miami bass

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Miami Bass is a type of hip-hop characterized by deep bass drums , which enjoyed great popularity from the mid- 1980s to the mid- 1990s and was centered in Miami , Florida, USA .

Style features

The Miami Bass is a descendant of the Electro or Electro Funk of the early 1980s (e.g. "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa ), which, among other things, shaped breakdance .

The musical focus of the Miami Bass is on the eponymous deep bass, which is mostly generated with the help of the Roland TR-808 drum computer . The texts are usually either self-referential (that is, they revolve around "bass") and / or deal with sexual topics through to pornographic and sexist content.

The Miami Bass is related to the - but much faster and harder - Ghetto Tech from Detroit as well as to the Brazilian Rio Funk .

Well-known representatives

The best-known representatives of the Miami Bass include 2 Live Crew and Dynamix II ; Less known by name, but just as influential are the producers James McCauley (DXJ, Maggotron, Bassadelics) and Amos Larkins (Gucci Crew, The Megatrons), who appear under numerous pseudonyms.

The greatest commercial successes of the genre include “Cars With The Boom” by L'Trimm (1988), “Me So Horny” by 2 Live Crew (1989), “Tootsee Roll” by 69 Boyz (1993) and “Whoomp! (There It Is) ”by Tag Team (1993).

Miami Bass in Germany

In Germany, the Miami-Bass-style play Türlich, Türlich (Safe, Dicker) by Das Bo was a successful hit in 2000 and sold around 220,000 times.

The rappers Frauenarzt , Michelmann, Al Kaporn and DJ Reckless are further representatives of the Miami Bass with German lyrics.

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