I was for sure excited when I found out about our new “Bassdrop” series and I was even more excited when I found out the inaugural party would be headlined by the always on point Jack Beats. But even with all that excitement I could not have anticipated that it would be so fucking amazing.
It just blows me away how good Jack beats is at making music. They don’t have the largest library of tunes, but fuck me if every single song they drop isn’t 100% amazing. Even my friend who pretty much exclusively plays, listens to and produces drum and bass was totally psyched on the show and got down hard. I think it just has everything to do with the fact that these two make just about the most delicious noises in electronic music.
I arrived with only a few minutes remaining in Breakage’s set. The first person I ran into immediately blurted out “Oh my god dude, Breakage is killing it!!!” I told him that I had just arrived and he seemed genuinely upset for me. As I navigated the crowd I was pleased to see that Bassdrop was exactly the type of party that I had hoped it would turn out to be, totally filled with people but not too packed. Everyone was dancing and really into the music. This show seriously had one of the better vibes I have experienced in my career of party going.
Jack Beats came on and the onslaught of just about every song I could have hoped for them to play. Although the beginning of their set started out a little bit slow, really quick cuts and lacking a bit in flow, it wasn’t long before the two of them were in perfect sync and blasting our ears with a perfectly crafted dance set. I was amazed by how smoothly they two of them could play on two decks each, I even caught a glimpse of their screen and saw that they were pretty much playing no less than three tracks at any one time. I would have been impressed if one person played a set as tight as the one the two of them played, its like they are connected at the brain or something.
Highlights from the show include when they dropped “Drop The Pressure”, which I could happily never hear again after they played it. I nearly lost my shit when they played Herve’s “Together” which uses the chorus from Primal Scream’s “Come Together”, which is off the album Screamadelica and if you haven’t heard that you need to do so immediately. I was also psyched to hear them play “Out Of Body” and “Revolution” which are their two latest original tracks. But I would have to say that the best part of the night was when they played their remix of John B’s “All Night” into the Skream remix, a mix that I had literally played no more than two hours earlier at my show, so I was pretty pleased with that. Although obviously they pulled off the mix much more smoothly and dropped it way harder than I did.
Looking back this was truly one of the best shows I have ever been to. Jack beats absolutely blew my mind with their set, it was nearly perfect on every level, and the vibe in Bourbon was perfect. Don’t miss Bassdrop Volume two as we bring in the dutch master Afrojack to tear you a new one!
Here are a bunch of the tunes that JB played. It is all zipped up so its easy to download. ENJOY!!!
