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  "slug": "miami-bass",
  "name": "Miami Bass",
  "aliases": [
    "booty bass",
    "bass music",
    "808 bass"
  ],
  "description": "Miami in the mid-eighties, where electro was rebuilt around one thing: the 808 kick, tuned low and long enough to move air in a car boot. Fast, filthy, and engineered for a sound system rather than a radio.",
  "origin": {
    "place": "Miami, Florida",
    "year": 1985
  },
  "lineage": [
    {
      "genre": "electro",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/electro/",
      "inherited": "The same drum machine, one idea narrowed. Miami took Planet Rock's 808 and discarded everything except the kick and the handclap, then tuned the kick until it was the entire arrangement."
    }
  ],
  "bpm": {
    "min": 125,
    "max": 145
  },
  "updated": "2026-08-31",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/miami-bass/",
  "trackCount": 7,
  "curatedBy": [],
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      "rank": 1,
      "trackKey": "2-live-crew--throw-the-d",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/2-live-crew--throw-the-d/",
      "title": "Throw the D",
      "artist": "2 Live Crew",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/2-live-crew/",
      "year": 1986,
      "label": "Luke Skyywalker",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The record that set the template and started the call-and-response tradition of answer records. Crude by design, and the 808 is mixed louder than the vocal on purpose.",
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          "kind": "curator",
          "slug": "miami",
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          "slug": "the-eighties",
          "name": "The Eighties",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/the-eighties/"
        }
      ],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/2%20Live%20Crew%20Throw%20the%20D",
          "exact": false
        },
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          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=IMicDDXU-9c",
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    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "trackKey": "mc-a-d-e--bass-rock-express",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/mc-a-d-e--bass-rock-express/",
      "title": "Bass Rock Express",
      "artist": "MC A.D.E.",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/mc-a-d-e/",
      "year": 1985,
      "label": "4-Sight",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Often named as the first Miami bass record proper. A train rhythm, a countdown, and low end that will damage an inadequate speaker.",
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        {
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          "name": "Miami",
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        }
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        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
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          "exact": true
        }
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    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "trackKey": "amos-larkins-ii--planet-rock",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/amos-larkins-ii--planet-rock/",
      "title": "Planet Rock",
      "artist": "Amos Larkins II",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/amos-larkins-ii/",
      "year": 1986,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Not the Bambaataa track — a Miami producer's own bass workout, and a good demonstration of how completely the city rewrote what it had inherited.",
      "alsoOn": [
        {
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          "slug": "miami",
          "name": "Miami",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/miami/"
        }
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Amos%20Larkins%20II%20Planet%20Rock",
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        },
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      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "trackKey": "2-hyped-brothers-and-a-dog--doo-doo-brown",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/2-hyped-brothers-and-a-dog--doo-doo-brown/",
      "title": "Doo Doo Brown",
      "artist": "2 Hyped Brothers and a Dog",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/2-hyped-brothers-and-a-dog/",
      "year": 1991,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "A rhythm that became a template, then a standard, then a genre in its own right once New Orleans got hold of it. One of bass music's most productive records.",
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          "slug": "miami",
          "name": "Miami",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/miami/"
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      ],
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        },
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      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "trackKey": "69-boyz--tootsee-roll",
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      "title": "Tootsee Roll",
      "artist": "69 Boyz",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/69-boyz/",
      "year": 1994,
      "label": "Rip-It",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The dance-craze end, and a top ten hit. Miami bass's habit of pairing an instruction with a beat is the direct ancestor of a great deal of later Southern rap.",
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          "name": "Miami",
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        },
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    {
      "rank": 6,
      "trackKey": "95-south--whoot-there-it-is",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/95-south--whoot-there-it-is/",
      "title": "Whoot, There It Is",
      "artist": "95 South",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/95-south/",
      "year": 1993,
      "label": "Wrap",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Released weeks before Tag Team's near-identical Whoomp, and the resulting confusion sold both. The scene ran on answer records and always had.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
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    },
    {
      "rank": 7,
      "trackKey": "dynamix-ii--scarface",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/dynamix-ii--scarface/",
      "title": "Scarface",
      "artist": "Dynamix II",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/dynamix-ii/",
      "year": 1987,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The technical end of the city — vocoders, tight programming, and an obvious debt to Kraftwerk that most of the scene had by then abandoned.",
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          "name": "Miami",
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        },
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          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Olgn9sXNdl0",
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        }
      }
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}