After over a decade in this bass music game, Lorin Ashton has never lost his edge. If anything, he’s been honing it into an adaptive, razor sharp point. The Bassnectar has never stopped flowing and his latest release, the six track “Freestyle EP,” presents his most refined material to date.

Part dubstep, part hip-hop, part trap, and part drum & bass, the “Freestyle EP” proves without a doubt that genres no longer hold meaning to Bassnectar. He has one goal: to engulf the sences in a visceral sonic experience. And any bass music genre, or combination of genre elements, that serves that purpose is just a another tool in his repertoire.

Freestyle Ft. Angel Haze:

On the EP’s title track, which features rising hip-hop star Angel Haze, Bassnectar pulls out all the stops for a beat that transitions from the trilled up booty bass of trap to the frantic breaks and grinding bass of drumstep – before bringing both together into a twerk worthy finale.

Breathless Ft. Mimi Page

The next cut, “Breathless” featuring vocalist Mimi Page, sees Bassnectar teaming up with UK based duo DC Breaks for a liquid drum & bass effort that combines DC’s D&B expertise with the smooth – yet strikingly immediate – basses Ashton has developed throughout gentler tracks such as his other Mimi Page collaboration “Butterfly.”

Hologram Ft. Zumbi

“Hologram” and “Infinite” strike closer to Bassnectar’s dubstep roots, but each takes an opposite end of the spectrum from melody to grime. “Hologram” is easier on the ears with its slowly wobbling basses set beneath a symphony of astral synth patches and a sparsely auto-tuned vocal contribution from Zion I’s own MC Zumbi.

Infinite

“Infinite,” on the other hand, displays a characteristically Bassnectar style with its selection of high octane, in-your-face subwoofer shakers that will surely please any longtime fan.

Zion I – “Human” (Bassnectar Remixxx)