Bassnectar

While he debuted the first official cut in March, Bassnectar's upcoming album Vava Voom has surfaced online one day before its official release. The tracks on the album are completely unique, every tune is different and we love it! Containing 11 songs – only 9 of them are fresh - and collaborations with Lupe Fiasco, Amp Live, ill.Gates, Jansten, Tina Malia with his new Album Vava Voom, Bassnectar knows that even more people will soon be paying attention. "I've been grinding in tiny towns since 2003, 2004, when there was no DJ scene because the rave scene had died and disintegrated and the new resurgence hadn't even begun," Bassnectar recently shared, born Lorin Ashton. "There was nowhere to go, so I got really used to building my own fanbase and my own community."

"Vava Voom" - Bassnectar feat Lupe Fiasco:

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A self-proclaimed "huge fan" of Lupe Fiasco, Bassnectar enlisted the rapper for Vava Voom's title track as a kind of exercise in genre mixing. "I wanted to make kind of a hip-hop, dubstep experiment with him and he was down," says Bassnectar. <i."The song laid the foundation for Vava Voom, even if the rest of the album is very different. I was very entranced by that tune and would've happily just put it out as a single," he adds. "But I ended up with another nine songs that all have a different kind of tone or mood to them."

Bassnectar feels the same way about the dubstep phenomenon. "Everyone's like, 'Oh, dubstep,' at the dinner table at Christmas this year," he says. "There are a lot of things in life, like art and sex, that are good news but old news. And dubstep is old news. It was around in 2002, and it really blew up in the underground over here in 2006. That was six years ago."

Yet even Bassnectar admits that things have changed. The success of his last album, Divergent Spectrum, caught him totally off guard in 2011. "I expected Divergent Spectrum to fail miserably, and it did phenomenally well," he says. "Usually I feel like I invent ideas and sounds that aren't really that popular for another five years. I guess it's just the times lining up now where I'm on a wavelength with people."

"Empathy" :

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Vava Voom comes out April 10th, and is followed by a number of promoting gigs starting April 11th until July 13th .

Bassnectar's upcoming tour dates: April 11, 2012 – Indianapolis, IN , Old National April 12, 2012 – Kansas City, MO, The Midland April 13, 2012 – Madison, WI, Alliant Energy Center April 14-15, 2012 – Chicago, IL, Congress Theater April 17, 2012 – Burlington, VT, Memorial Auditorium April 18-19, 2012 – Boston, MA, House of Blues April 20, 2012 – Philadelphia, PA, Bass Center V April 21, 2012 – Rochester, NY, Rochester Armony

Bassnecatr's Vava Voom Album Tracklisting as follows:

1. Vava Voom Feat Lupe Fiasco
2. Empathy
3. Ugly Feat Amp Live
4. Ping Pong
5. What Feat Jansten
6. Pennywise Tribute
7. Do It Like This Feat Ill.gates
8. Laughter Crescendo (2012 Version)
9. Butterfly Feat Mimi Page
10. Nothing Has Been Broken Feat Tina Malia
11. Chronological Outtakes