Boiler Room and leading music tech providers, Native Instruments, are combining forces to work on a series of insightful events, feature articles, performances, mixes, and more. In our next chapter Tokyo Bass, we explored Japan's land of low-end frequencies. Through a short documentary, track collaborations and an enormous live show, it's a project that reaches across the aisles, uncovering everything from the ancient discipline of Taiko to the futurist footwork of modern Tokyo.

We launched our third collaboration with a live event in Tokyo that sought to blow wide open the full spectrum of Japanese bass: a showcase of footwork crews, net experimentalists & dubstep veterans — a real celebration of the whole cross-section. At the centre of this exchange, we placed one of – if not – the most central figures in global bass music: Kode9. As a pioneer who has spent the last decade at the frontline of heavyweight club sonics (and a Japanophile, to boot), there were few better fitted to join the dots of this ten-ton assembly. Relive all the magic below.

Watch the documentary

Watch the documentary behind Tokyo Bass: a trip into Japanese bass culture with Hyperdub's Kode9, uncovering everything from the ancient tradition of Japanese taiko drums to the futurist footwork of modern Tokyo. For more on the film, head here.

Track Collaboration

TRACK COMPETITION

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