Gotta give Scorn/Mick Harris a shout. It’s not just that the bass is heavy but everything about his tracks are in service/worship of the bass:
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"The Sound of the Multitude is dedicated to the exploration of the potential of the sonic realm, not only within the spectrum of high fidelity but in its affective dimensions and influential role in a wide-range of socio-political and cultural contexts.
A shipping container – that emblem par excellence of our globally and temporally-entangled 24/7 world of the constant, anonymous machinic processes of hyper-capitalism and the accelerated movement of commodities – was transformed into a large-scale mobile sound sculpture that, as a public participatory and collaborative installation, temporarily declares whichever location a place for discursive exchange, musical and acoustic intervention."
wow, sometimes I wonder if people really think what theyre saying/writing or if they just want to come across as an artist. 
maybe Im just a philistine.
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Are we gonna turn another fun thread into soundsystem willy waving?
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Totally! Massive Attack (Prodigy as well) created quite a few killer basslines.
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Its about speakers, bass and audio engineering, one could assume you should be allowed to talk about those things then. or read the stuff that is linked.
must be some kind of language barrier obviously, we should call the police.
Willy waving made some pretty heavy reggae
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Yeah I struggle with ‘artist’s statements’ like this. Artists have to do some sort of marketing to get grants and commissions so I understand it in one way…but it’s so often a simple concept (I wish that shipping container was a boombox lol) buried under multiple layers of bullshit.
I think a lot of this is to give people something to repeat to each other at cocktail parties. Maybe this is because I am not the most social person, but for me art should just be about the feelings that come before words, you can share this with other people who have similar or contrasting takes, without all this art critic bullshit.
Anyway here’s another huge bassline, plus kind of an arrangement masterclass
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There’s so many insane basslines. I was into Schranz >20yrs ago, not any more. This one will always be remembered tho
Aba Shanti at Notting Hill. Guys holding down the speakers with rope they rattle so much.
I also love the low end on Blackmarket Seminar!
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itchy nose hair, compressed lungs, “I think I’m going to throw up” level sub bass
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Hearing this as a young’un ca. 2011 in the short-lived club Cable near London Bridge:
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this fucking scene always springs to mind… Mesmerizing sound design with the throttle on the bass!
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Good call: Black Swan, Bristol … they toured with their own sound system (of course!). First, it was incredibly deep epically loud bass. But the people rolling on the floor with their heads directly in the bass bins
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Bloc festival 2008 Great Yarmouth Uk. Amon Tobin playing Delpher. Never felt anything similar. Maybe AFX some years later at Bloc, Minehead but that was kind of different- that was more make you feel nauseous 
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As do I. I’m a big fan of Nik Nowak’s stuff, he’s a great artist.
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