KRUNK Presents BASSFoundation 4 year Anniversary Tour Press Release

BASSFoundation – the original New Delhi Junglist Movement – are turning 4 years old, and are celebrating with an India mini-tour this March! Big Daddy Klein will be flying over from the UK to join Delhi Sultanate for three exclusive dates organized by the Krunk.

Since BASSFoundation kicked off their groundbreaking monthly Delhi nights in early 2009, the bass-heavy music scene in India has progressed by leaps and bounds. All along the way, the BASSFoundation trio of Big Daddy Klein, Praxis & Delhi Sultanate have been at the forefront of introducing the sounds and developing tastes in drum & bass, dubstep and reggae.

Join BASSFoundation for their fourth birthday, and get your fix of their inimitable sound system-style of ragga jungle, deep dubstep and exclusive reggae dubplates from around the world. Delhi Sultanate will be warming things up with a BASSFoundation Roots set, showcasing his unique solo project of roots reggae and classic dancehall, in a strictly-vinyl, dubplate-aplenty style!

BASSFoundation Biography

BASSFoundation is a crew originally formed in New Delhi, playing and promoting drum & bass, dubstep and reggae-dancehall in India and abroad. The collective consists of deejays Big Daddy Klein and Praxis, with Delhi Sultanate on the mic.

Formed back in early 2009, BASSFoundation were one of the first crews to promote drum & bass and dubstep in India, and the first ever regular night to hit New Delhi. Almost four years on and the scene is thriving, with a range of home-grown producers and DJs, and underground and established names from all over the world regularly touring the country.

BASSFoundation’s combination of the traditional reggae sound system format with newer electronic genres has drawn a large, dedicated following at their own jam-packed monthly nights in Delhi, as well as numerous gigs across the country and further afield. Musically they rep a broad spectrum of drum & bass, from melodic soulful flavours and reggae-tinged sounds to deeper rollers, as well as mixing things up with jungle, dubstep, reggae and dancehall. BASSFoundation’s ever-growing box of dubplates features specials by leading recording artists from Jamaica and the rest of the world. Delhi Sultanate – with his background as a dancehall MC – provides unique and uncompromising, politically-conscious lyrics, reflecting the fiercely non-commercialist ethos of the crew. They have played to capacity crowds at almost all of the major venues in India, as well as being regulars at the Sunburn, Holi Cow and NH7 festivals.

In 2012 they were invited to play at Outlook Festival in Croatia – Europe’s largest and most respected bass music and sound system culture festival, featuring the biggest artists in world. BASSFoundation were also asked to host the official Delhi Outlook Launch Party, which featured D&B legend Alix Perez, as one of three ground-breaking events across India organised by KRUNK.

After shifting base to London in 2012, the logical step for BASSFoundation was to begin their notorious nights in London, which are currently going strong at Bar-A-Bar in Dalston.

BASSFoundation regularly host some of the scene’s best names from India and abroad. Guest artists have included: Dj Marky, Alix Perez (Shogun Audio), Serial Killaz (Congo Natty), Klute (Commercial Suicide), Nymfo (Critical), DJ Flight (Metalheadz), Ant TC1 (Dispatch Recordings), EBK (Renegade Hardware), Shiva Soundsystem, REDS, Kush Arora, Subatomic Sound System, Nucleya, B.R.E.E.D, Vachan Chinnappa, Ska Vengers, Reggae Rajahs, Bay Beat Collective, Osmani Soundz (Anokha, Nasha Records), Sub Swara, and many more.