Best of You Need To Hear This 2013: Touching Bass

This year saw us pally up with Phillips in order to bring you You Need To Hear This. Our new sister platform allowed us to adorn our serious face breaking down albums to their molecules, charting the evolution of artists and visiting untouched music scenes from around the globe.YNTHT was also home to our weekly Touching Bass series, inviting some new and experienced DJs to make us a mix. Here are some of the best mixes that we received.

TOUCHING BASS: B TRAITS

What would London be without a couple days of jerk chicken, questionable roadside toilet antics and enough Caribbean-derived music to trump any Jamaican’s iPod? Apart from boring as fuck, it’d be Notting Hill-less. So as our fave bank holiday fiesta peeks its bosom around the corner we’re here to ready your ears for the weekend via Digital Soundboy lady, B Traits. The BBC Radio 1 host unleashed “Fever” back in spring 2012 and has been babysitting Annie Mac’s slot since May this year. Whether you’re going to join her and the rest of the Digital Soundboy posse this Monday or not, wine your waist then read about first crushes, stage rituals and carnival memories. Or do it all at the same time.

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TOUCHING BASS: KAYTRANADA

A signature sound: it's the bullseye that every artist strives to grasp within their career and something that Montreal's Kaytranada has managed to achieve already, aged 20. Swirling together neo soul, hip-hop and elements of trap into the same audio mixing bowl has produced some pretty delicious results for the Haiti-born beatsmith, especially on his refixes of Janet Jackson and Jill Scott. For this Touching Bass, Kaytra slipped together some of his fave tracks before we nattered on about bad barbers, Boondocks and condiments.

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Did you know that Hong Kong were the innovators of the Oyster card? Well, before talking to Pedestrian, neither did I. I would have boarded the Metropolitan line with an unfamiliarity paralleled only by those tourists that take pictures of shopping centres. Beyond increasing my worldly knowledge, Pedestrian has released a robust string of releases for the likes of Push & Run, 2nd Drop, Brownswood and Metalheadz. We chatted to the worldwide globetrotter about life in Bahrain as well as loving all-weekend house parties and, of course, walking.

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