Bass music (often known in the UK as UK Bass) is a collection of various styles of urban dance music that draw influences from American club hip-hop, UK garage and a variety of world ghettofunk genres. Its name can be connected to drum and bass or Miami Bass, whose influence can still be heard in Bass music's edgey raw energy. Bass music can include dubstep, 4x4 garage, footwork, trap, Baile funk, UK funky, dancehall, fidget house, Baltimore club, breakbeats, glitch-hop, electro house, moombahton and kuduro, among others. The phrase began to be used in response to the blending of sounds between these international genres and frequent misrepresentations of genre by casual fans.
In the United Kingdom, bass music, or UK Bass, as it is often known there, has had major mainstream success since the late 2000s and early 2010s, with artists such as Example, Chase & Status, Skream, Benga and Wretch 32.
Dubstep producer Skream, is quoted in an interview with The Independent in September 2011 as saying "The word dubstep is being used by a lot of people and there were a lot of people being tagged with the dubstep brush. They don't want to be tagged with it and shouldn't be tagged with it - that's not what they're pushing... When I say 'UK bass', it's what everyone UK is associated with so it would be a lot easier if it was called that."
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