Definition of "bassline" [bassline]

• The low-pitched instrumental part of a piece of popular music. (noun)

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• ": Another great post digging into the remix - I'd never equated stealing off the bassline from a Jazz song, which then gets sampled for a hip-hop record, and then used for a Mashup on a podcast as similar to buying clothing from different stores and thus remixing and mashing up my identity into one digital hole - A huge part of the identity process is to consume culture, mix it and personalize it, and share that with our friends because it has identity implications."
• "So you heard for example at times an almost dub bassline, with a Miles Davis horn solo sampled from vinyl and looped over the top."
• ""Pickup Truck" is a haunting, capacious ballad set to a wiggly dub bassline and one of several tracks that play with rhythm and atmosphere in a manner that bodes well for Kings of Leon's continued creative vitality."