The term describes a genre of songs that borrow heavily from 1980's hits, with synthesizer bass lines, simple beats and deadpan vocals.
That really simple bass line, [hums bass line] you know?
Timbaland had filled the space around her voice with a huge drum beat and a simple bass line.
His new mix CD, "Next Level" (Ultra), is a no-frills disc of taut bass lines and simple melodies.
The studio version, a typically lush and detailed outtake from the "Feels" sessions, uses a simple bass line and a simpler lyric ("Yeah, ye-ah") to build up momentum; eventually it explodes into a scream: "People!
The ground, or ground bass, was a simple melodic pattern sounded in the lowest part, which served as a foundation for imaginative figuration in the upper parts.
As on the album, he opened this performance with "Sinews," a loping funk tune with a rubbery, deceptively simple bass riff.
Musically, though, it seems innocent enough: its foundation is a proto-Minimalist repeating bass line and simple chord progression, on which instruments (and sometimes voices) execute virtuosic variations.
Under the influence of less sophisticated music, such as that of the Italian frottola, a popular vocal genre, these secular polyphonic genres favoured rather simple bass lines highlighting a limited number of related harmonies.
In 2007, the English duo Prinzhorn Dance School released a self-titled album through James Murphy's DFA records that was full of sparse, unsettling songs with simple bass lines and creepy lyrics (its name comes from Hans Prinzhorn, a German psychiatrist who collected the art of the mentally ill).
