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Episode 05 · · 61 min

Bass, Blood, Blueprint

Producer Idris Hale on the threshold where hearing stops and the body takes the note.

With Idris Hale, ProducerBass / Body

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  1. Mara Voss

    Idris Hale builds records from the bottom up. Before melody, before a voice, he asks what the body will do when the low end arrives.

  2. Idris Hale

    Bass is not a genre. It is a threshold. Under about sixty hertz you stop hearing and start being moved. I map that the way an architect maps a stair. If the kick is late by a few milliseconds, the room leans the wrong way.

  3. Mara Voss

    You talk about clubs as if they were instruments.

  4. Idris Hale

    They are. Concrete, air, people. The people are the resonant body. You do not play at them. You play them, gently, and you stop before it becomes a trick.

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