The first artist album on Touchin’ Bass features veteran Scottish electro seditionary Dave Being. I first encountered his inimitable brand of electronic foraging in the mid-90s on Andrew Weatherall’s Emissions label before he started spreading his radioactive seed over other sources such as Gassoline, SCSI/AV and Holland’s Isis. Being on Touchin’ Bass is a logical development and the expected dark journey through the outer limits of electronic whoopee. Most of the tracks are built on the original b-boy drum machine pattern except drenched in everything from gasoline to nad-munching monsters from the deep. Tracks like ‘Money’, ‘Breathe’ and ‘Base’ are dense, growling and eerie with noises you haven’t heard before [and might not want to in a dark alley]. Straight from the soul, sometimes with a similar spirit to free jazz, it’s hair-raisingly invigorating stuff.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs