The digitalization of music and the increasing availability of production software has undoubtedly contributed positively to the burgeoning bass music scene and the prolific creativity that seems so abundant at the moment. As a result, we are inching closer to a new meritocratic musical paradigm where so long as you are equipped with a laptop and some ideas you can get yourself heard. However, the increasingly over-saturated market and constant improvement of software means that in people's efforts to get heard there has been a shift in ideals towards technical criteria and to music that values volume over depth, brute force over impact and perfection over soul. In the process the music has dissociated itself from any human source. So upon coming across South London production duo colo I was completely enamoured. This is music that beats with a human heart.
