“If you cannot relate to 305, you will not survive the future,” an automated voice warns on the Intro, which sets the tone for an album that is essentially a musical space trip. Close your eyes, drift off to Digital Dreams and lose yourself in an intergalactic joyride.

Pit stops include Does Life Exist; the best Bass 305 song yet; Space Travel and the oddly-titled Look Aggressively Towards The Future. The only real failure, in fact, is Mix Master; a stereo-panned tribute to a hip-hop subgenre the 305 boys really need to let go of.

my rating : 4 of 5

1994

At this point, it’s about more than just making your woofers go boom. Bass is at the forefront, to the point of being obsessively interlaced into the very essence of these songs, but musically it’s more of an underline. That means Bass 305 is taking you Into The Future of music; electronic music in general; a world where computer-savvy audiophiles, be them bassheads or not, reign supreme.

Maybe 305 should; no pun intended; drop the Bass and market themselves as just an electronic music duo from Miami. The best parts of their music actually have little to do with the bass. It’s other elements of the music; higher frequency synths, orchestration chords and such; that sound most pleasing to the ears. Man Likes The Sound Of Bass, yes, but those other parts are even better.

Most of the track titles have the word Bass in them, so they’re just as repetitive and unimaginative as the ones on Digital Bass, but this album is better than that one. The duo should stop using so many outside vocal samples though. Most of them are corny and cliché. One major exception is that audiologist guy who seems to know everything there is to know about sound. He’s awesome.

my rating : 4 of 5

1993

The title song; trance music for space cars; is the best song. Most of the others serve as filler. The gist of the album centers around a celebration of computer-generated Bass music with stock vocal samples mixed in for measure. Techno seems to be the genre of choice; the first of many similarly titled, and subtitled, songs is Techno Bass; but there are also hints of hip-hop.

my rating : 3 of 5

1992