Shitbass is a dance music genre from Evansville, IN. Similar to breakcore, speedcore, speedbass, and suomisaundi, shitbass songs rely on comedic sampling of popular material and punishing bassdrum rhythms.
Happy Fascist Italians like to claim that they invented Shitbass but the music existed before HFA started making it. Some of the people who went on to make Shitbass were known from 2005-2008 or so to make a genre we all called "Bogus Breaks", which had the same "Dance music + pop culture humor" mentality that Shitbass has. HFA came along and made the genre a harder edge, and in doing so changed the name of it.
Thus... Bogus Breaks was more or less proto-shitbass. Some classic bogus albums can still be found in Evansville's underground culture. (Various Artists - Great Music Race of 2006 and Fenrir - Who Knows How to Mecca Sandwich? are prime examples.)
Happy Fascist Italians + the other shitbass musicians are known as the Network 24 collective. There's a few of the old Bogus Breaks musicians who haven't switched over to the new style or have dropped off the face of the earth complete.
Happy Fascist Italians like to claim that they invented Shitbass but the music existed before HFA started making it. Some of the people who went on to make Shitbass were known from 2005-2008 or so to make a genre we all called "Bogus Breaks", which had the same "Dance music + pop culture humor" mentality that Shitbass has. HFA came along and made the genre a harder edge, and in doing so changed the name of it.
Thus... Bogus Breaks was more or less proto-shitbass. Some classic bogus albums can still be found in Evansville's underground culture. (Various Artists - Great Music Race of 2006 and Fenrir - Who Knows How to Mecca Sandwich? are prime examples.)
Happy Fascist Italians + the other shitbass musicians are known as the Network 24 collective. There's a few of the old Bogus Breaks musicians who haven't switched over to the new style or have dropped off the face of the earth complete.
by bogusbroken February 15, 2011