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Bassline
Bassline, also called bassline house or Niche, is a UK garage sub-genre that emerged in Yorkshire and the Midlands in the early 2000s, known for heavy bass.
Bassnectar
Bassnectar, the stage name of Lorin Ashton, is an American DJ and electronic music producer from Santa Cruz, California, known for a bass-heavy blend of dubstep, breakbeat, and drum 'n' bass.
Basso continuo
Basso continuo, or figured bass and thoroughbass (Generalbass, basse continue), is the Baroque practice of improvising chords above a notated bass line; it originated in early 1600s Italy, declined in the late eighteenth century, and thrives in historically informed performance.
Basso profondo
Basso profondo (Italian for "deep bass"), also called contrabass or oktavist, is the lowest bass voice type, heard in opera and Russian Orthodox choral music.
Bassoon
Bassoon (Fagott, fagotto, basson): lowest standard orchestral woodwind, a non-transposing double-reed instrument in C with range B♭1 upward, Heckel and French systems, four-joint maple body, and a contrabassoon cousin an octave lower.
Bassorah Fossa
Bassorah Fossa is a fossa (trough) on Saturn's moon Enceladus, approved by the IAU in 1982 and named for the town from which Sindbad embarked on his third voyage in One Thousand and One Nights.
Bassrush Massive
Bassrush Massive is a recurring bass music event series by Insomniac's Bassrush brand, held since the early 2010s in Las Vegas, San Bernardino, and Phoenix.
Bassrush Massive 2014
Bassrush Massive 2014 was a series of bass-music events under Bassrush, Insomniac Events' bass brand, including an April 5 show at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino.
Bassrush Massive 2017
Bassrush Massive 2017 was a one-night bass music show at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas on June 15, 2017, during EDC Week, with Datsik, Flux Pavilion, and Zomboy.
Bassrush Massive 2018
Bassrush Massive 2018 was a two-day bass music festival staged by Insomniac's Bassrush brand at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California, on July 20 and 21, 2018.
Bassrush Massive 2025
Bassrush Massive 2025 was a one-night bass music show at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas on May 15, 2025, presented by Insomniac's Bassrush brand as the kickoff of EDC Week.
Bassrush Miami Music Week
Bassrush Miami Music Week is Insomniac's Bassrush-brand showcase of bass music, dubstep, and drum & bass during Miami Music Week, first held at The Stage in Miami in 2014.
Bassvictim
Bassvictim is a London electronic duo (Maria Manow, Ike Clateman) formed in 2022, known for self-described "basspunk" electroclash and the acclaimed 2025 debut album Forever on Warner Records.
Basswell
Basswell, the stage name of French producer Mathias Boitel, is a hard techno DJ based in Lyon known for fast rave tracks at 150 to 165 BPM.
Bast Tholus
Bast Tholus, a Venusian tholus (small domical volcanic hill), 83 km wide at 57.8°N, 130.3°E, IAU-named in 1985 for the Egyptian goddess of joy.
Basta (archaeological site)
Basta is a large Pre-Pottery Neolithic B village site in southern Jordan, near Petra, occupied from about 7540 to 7040 BC and excavated between 1986 and 1992.
Basta (rapper)
Basta (Баста), real name Vasily Vakulenko (born 1980, Rostov-on-Don), is a Russian rapper, Gazgolder co-founder, and creator of Noggano and N1NT3ND0; known for Moya Igra, the Basta album series, and stadium concerts.
Bastam
Bastam is an Urartian hill fortress in West Azarbaijan, Iran, founded by King Rusa II around 685 BC and destroyed by fire late in his reign.
Bastanak (album)
Bastanak (بستناك, "I'm waiting for you") is a 2006 studio album by Lebanese pop singer Elissa, released by Rotana and topping sales across the Arab world.
Bastar Dhokra
Bastar Dhokra (ढोकरा) is the traditional lost-wax casting craft of Bastar, Chhattisgarh, in which the Ghadwa community casts brass and bell metal objects by the cire perdue technique, registered as a Geographical Indication.
Bastar district (बस्तर जिला)
Bastar district (बस्तर जिला), Chhattisgarh, India: southern district headquartered at Jagdalpur, 6596.90 sq km, 834,375 people (2011), about 70 percent tribal, known for Chitrakote Falls, Kanger Valley National Park, and post-Maoist development.
Bastar: The Naxal Story
Bastar: The Naxal Story (बस्तर: द नक्सल स्टोरी), 2024 Hindi film by Sudipto Sen, produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, starring Adah Sharma as an IPS officer fighting Naxalites in Chhattisgarh; panned by critics, weak box office, disputed factual claims.
Bastard Out of Carolina (film)
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) is Anjelica Huston's directorial debut, a Showtime TV drama adapted from Dorothy Allison's novel about Bone, a girl abused by her stepfather Glen in 1950s South Carolina; TNT rejected it before Cannes and Showtime aired it.
Bastard!!
Bastard!!, also known as Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy, is a dark fantasy manga by Kazushi Hagiwara, serialized since 1988 with over 30 million copies sold.
Bastards
Bastards (Les Salauds) is a 2013 French-German noir drama by Claire Denis, starring Vincent Lindon and Chiara Mastroianni, about a ship captain drawn into his family's ruin; premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard 2013.
BASTARZ
BASTARZ (블락비 바스타즈) is the first sub-unit of South Korean boy group Block B, made up of rapper P.O and vocalists U-Kwon and B-Bomb, formed in 2015.
Baster Trek
The Baster Trek was the 1868 to 1870 migration of the Rehoboth Basters from the Cape Colony to Rehoboth in present-day Namibia, led by Hermanus van Wyk.
Bastet
Bastet (Bast), ancient Egyptian cat goddess of Bubastis, daughter of Re, mother of Mihos; originally a fierce lioness of Lower Egypt later gentled into a domestic cat, the benevolent counterpart of Sekhmet.
Bastetania
Bastetania (Greek Bastetania) was a pre-Roman region of southeastern Iberia, home of the Bastetani or Bastuli people, named after Basti (Baza); noted for silver mines, the Dama de Baza, and Roman conquest by Scipio in 209 BCE.
Basti
Basti (بستی) is an Urdu novel by Intizar Husain, first published in 1979, that recounts the Partition of India through the memories of its protagonist, Zakir.