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Bass of the Year Awards
Every year Atma-Sphere Music Systems awards the Bass of the Year Award to a special recording. The award
is not for the most bass, but for the best bass. We're listening for tasteful, not
'boom caar'bass. We tend to
use these recordings as bass references. We believe that the old idea that OTLs are wimpy amplifiers is
unfounded and misleading. So we select these recordings so we can demonstrate what we are talking about.
Some years there are many contenders (for example Paula Cole's TIGER LILY CD almost made the cut...)
and other years there are hardly any. We like things done right. 1992 was the first year the award was made.
| 1992 |
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1492 Soundtrack - Vangelis (LP, Warner Music 4509-91014-1) The final track on side 2 is one of Vangelis' best efforts.
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| 1993 |
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S/T - Deep Forest (LP, Columbia COL 4741781) Seminal LP from this French group influenced many groups at the time.
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| 1994 |
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Songs of Distant Earth - Michael Oldfield (LP, Warner Music 4509-96581-1) Easily the best work of Oldfield's lengthy carreer.
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| 1995 |
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Remotion - Global Communication (LP, Dedicated DEDLP21) One of the albums at the pinnacle of the 90's ambient movement.
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| 1996 |
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Zoon - Fields of the Nephilim (LP, Begger's Banquet BEGA172) A slight departure from the Fields of Nephilim, side 3 is a serious dark metal effort.
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| 1997 |
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Curious Korn - Ozric Tentacles (LP, Mad Fish SMALP 502) A light hearted progressive rock effort.
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| 1998 |
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Contact from the Underworld of Red Boy - Robbie Robertson
(CD, Cema/Capitol 54243) Track 7 was the winner.
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| 1999 |
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The Thin Red Line Soundtrack (CD, RCA Victor 63382) On HP's
short list - needs no comments.
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| 2001 |
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Early Man - Steve Roach (CD, Projekt PRO
111) A new-age artist that has shown some real depth.
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| 2002 |
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Rabbit Proof Fence Soundtrack - Peter Gabriel (CD,
RealWorld/CEMA 724381-22382-6) Import only; the film was independently released in the U.S.
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| 2003 |
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Tour De France Soundtracks - Kraftwerk (LP, EMI 591 708
1) Nice new effort from the acknowledged masters of electro.
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