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I can\u2019t lie \u2014 I find \u201cBass for Your Face<\/a>\u201d to be a very strange album. There\u2019s no doubt that Lawrence Muggerud<\/a> is a rap legend and has been since the self-titled first album from Cypress Hill dropped. People like to make those \u201cif you were stranded on a deserted island\u201d lists and I put that album on it every time the subject comes up. I can\u2019t deny the man is a musical genius. He knows how to sample and WHAT to sample. He knows how to take disparate elements and weave them together. He knows how to layer tracks, the right amount of percussion, and as the title of this album suggests Mr. Muggerud knows BASS quite well. A good DJ Muggs track thumps in your ride or your ear buds. He\u2019s the motherfucking man, aight? He just is.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n If I told you \u201cTrap Assassin\u201d features DJ Muggs collaborating with Freddie Gibbs and NOTHING ELSE you\u2019d assume it\u2019s a slam dunk. Here\u2019s what you need to know though \u2014 this isn\u2019t the collaboration you\u2019re expecting. Muggs\u2019 own stated intention with this album was a \u201cpalate cleanser\u201d because he was bored with his own production and needed to do something else. Respect. What I didn\u2019t expect was that \u201csomething else\u201d was UK DUBSTEP. I don\u2019t hate it. I\u2019m not mad at it. It\u2019s just absolutely not what I expected to hear Gibbs rap on or Muggs produce, and it\u2019s taken me several listens to let what both men did fully sink in. The follow up track is \u201cSoundclash Business\u201d though and it proves without a doubt that Muggs MEANT business about this change in tone.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve never listened to dubstep, drum and bass, or even grime<\/a> music before it\u2019s going to be a complete culture shock for you as a DJ Muggs fan. If on the other hand you were familiar with those genres you\u2019ll be impressed at how fully Muggerud embraced the sound. The bass is definitely in your face but so are the super electronic and often HARSH tones. It\u2019s abrasive for a purpose. It\u2019s taking the tropes of technology like eight bit chiptunes and synthesizers and chopping them up like a butcher at the block. If you\u2019re open to it the results can be quite beautiful \u2014 see \u201cShotta (Itchy Robot Mix)\u201d for an example. It\u2019s a futuristic fusion of reggae and techno that sounds like an afterparty in Las Vegas with too much liquor and too many drugs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Or maybe it sounds like a trendy nightclub on the West End<\/a> that I could never afford to get into. \u201cCome On London\u201d featuring Killa P takes the sound of the UK\u2019s Caribbean emcees and turns it up to 11. The song makes lights flash in my head and neurons fire in synaptic patterns that shouldn\u2019t exist but do. I could easily picture this song playing during an episode of Severance<\/a> as Mark S. is being chased by Lumon executives on motorbikes. It\u2019s tense, it\u2019s loud, it\u2019s harrowing, and it\u2019s kind of addictive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n It had also only been viewed\/listened to 300 times when I started writing this review. I suspect that like me you didn\u2019t know \u201cBass for Your Face<\/a>\u201d existed until today \u2014 I\u2019m speaking to you from the past but like Severance my innie and my outtie have had a chat about sharing their timelines and trying to sus out what\u2019s really going on. If you\u2019re here now my past me thanks future you for reading this review and stopping to consider why this Muggs album went under the radar. I\u2019m tempted to say the answer is easy for a damn yankee \u2014 dubstep, techno, drum and bass, and electronica just aren\u2019t that big here. There\u2019s a scene. It\u2019s just not like the European scene. Not even close. The only song here that seems to have gotten any traction is \u201cSnap Ya Neck Back\u201d featuring Bambu and Dizzee Rascal. It\u2019s FIYAH.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n