{"id":551945,"date":"2026-03-20T03:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551945\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:26:08","slug":"feature-video-puretone-addicted-to-bass-dom-dolla-remix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551945\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Video: Puretone &#8211; Addicted To Bass (Dom Dolla Remix)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve hooked a certified LUNKER for this week\u2019s nostalgia-soaked Feature Video \u2018<a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eH4sMocy2rw?si=35p0tIlTssk0WGem\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Addicted To Bass<\/a>\u2019, a Puretone classic reimagined by Dom Dolla!<\/p>\n<p>Directed by rage favourites Kyle Caulfield and Charles Buxton-Leslie, the newest imagining of Aussie dance classic \u2018Addicted To Bass\u2019 features a fish (presumably a bass), gigantic sound system and a cameo from Australian journalist and ABC TV alumni\u00a0Michael Rowland. \u201cThe whole thing was just surreal,\u201d says Michael. \u201cI got a cold DM from one of the directors of the clip, who happens to be a long-time News Breakfast viewer. He was clearly after a nerdy Dad and I clearly fit this role!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clip was shot over one day and night in a suburban house in Melbourne\u2019s East. Dom Dolla was there for several hours and was loving the whole process. Those enormous speakers were the other big stars of the clip (they were real and they were huge!), as was the large fish, that was starting to stink as the hours ticked by. All in all, a totally wild experience for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-director Kyle explains \u201cthe birth of this idea, whilst very distant from the final video, was inspired by a very lo-fi pixelated video from somewhere deep in a colder part of Europe, it showed some rave-looking folk seated in an older looking volvo, a secret bass machine with a huge subwoofer. When cranking the bass their hair stood up in all directions, clothes rippling like they were about to be torn off, bass at that level just has such an interesting texture visually, rarely can you see sound like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea surfaced around the same time Dom had started teasing this remix of \u2018Addicted to Bass\u2019, the transformation on the track with this huge drop was just begging for some crazy visual pairing really. We kept building on the idea and playing on the idea of morphing faces and visual distortion and chaos. Dom and the team really backed the final idea and we were able to turn it around in a little less than 2 weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Originally released in 1998 on Puretone\u2019s (a.k.a. Josh Abrahams) album Sweet Distorted Holiday, \u2018Addicted To Bass\u2019 is an Aussie dance classic that thanks to Dom now has new legs. \u201cThis ear worm was stuck in my head as a young aussie for nearly 30 years,\u201d explaims Dom. \u201cMy intentions with this remix were to introduce it to the next generation, and hopefully out into areas of the globe that never had the chance to hear the original.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it came to the video, I really wanted to assemble an Aussie crew to produce it, celebrating the origins of where the tune began in my hometown of Melbourne. Featuring an Aussie director, Aussie cast (and Aussie fish) to be the star of the show. (Barramundis are technically \u2018Asian sea bass\u2019 but we Aussies find them delish).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was thrilled to see what Dom had done with my tune when I first heard it\u201d says Puretone. \u201cHe\u2019s brought a deep, dirty, basement-funk vibe and I\u2019m loving it. Seeing Michael Rowland getting slapped about the face with all that bass was the cherry on top!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kyle adds \u201cwe should also note, we see this video as entirely fictional, ear health and hearing protection is very important and everyone should be wearing hearing protection in any setting like this. Our talent are wearing ear protection in the video, and of course the effects are not generated with any bass or loud music, but alas&#8217; if you find yourself also addicted to bass, just be addicted to protecting your ears as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve hooked a certified LUNKER for this week\u2019s nostalgia-soaked Feature Video \u2018Addicted To Bass\u2019, a Puretone classic reimagined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,109596,273000,273001,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-551945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dom-dolla","11":"tag-featuredvideo","12":"tag-puretone","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}