T2 ft. Jodie - Heartbroken

Forthcoming AATW Release | Updated: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:59:00 +0000 | Viewed: 40006 Times

T2 ft. Jodie Aysha - Heartbroken is now in its second week at #2 in the UK Top 40 - well done to all concerned! To buy the download please goto one of the following digital stores:

1. AATW Digital Store - MP3 EP & Video Only £1.79!
2. iTunes Music Store
3. Trackitdown.net

Picked up from the irrepressible Bassline scene that has been growing across Yorkshire, Birmingham and the East Midlands since 2000, Heartbroken has catapulted to national recognition with radio plays from Radio 1 DJs Pete Tong, Annie Mac, Trevor Nelson, Sara Cox and Jo Whiley.

The release comes with the original bassline mix and a host of remixes ranging from funky house, club, 2 step and 4x4. There will be an enhanced Maxi CD which includes the video, 12" Vinyl and three digital EP's available to buy.

CD Single & Download EP 1 Tracklisting (CDGLOBE760)

1. Radio Edit
2. Extended Mix
3. WAWA Club Mix
4. Thomas Gold Remix
5. Wideboys London Mix
6. WAWA Edit
7. Video

12" Single Tracklisting (12GLOBE760)
Side A

1. Extended Club Mix
2. WAWA Club Mix

Side B

1. Wideboys London Mix
2. Wideboys Up Norf Remix

Download EP 2 Tracklisting (CXGLOBE760)

1. Radio Edit
2. Extended Mix
3. Filthy Rich Remix
4. Matic Pro Remix
5. Wideboys Up Norf Remix

Download EP 3 Tracklisting (DLGLOBE760) - iTunes Exclusive

1. Radio Edit
2. Wideboys London Edit
3. Filthy Rich Remix
4. Original Mix
5. WAWA Dub Mix

Both T2 and Jodie come from Leeds and the track has been massive on the local scene for quite some time now - you can have a listen to the mixes and watch the video by clicking the links at the bottom of the page.

By the way - some of you may know this style of music, or indeed this track as 'Niche'. Due to the wonders of naughty file sharers and the internet, Heartbroken has been mislabelled to the point where its original title has been lost in the ether, just to clear up the situation here is a bit of history about the Bassline scene and why the name 'Niche' has come to become synonymous with it.

Bassline is really a catch all word for three quite different styles of music that have one thing in common and have evolved to be played together. They are Organ Bassline House, Speed Garage and 4x4 Garge. The common factor is that they all have deep, driving bass noises as the key melody in the music. Soulful vocals, MC and ragga vocal samples, gunshots, guitars and pianos can be found added in varying quantities across the different genres but bassline became the name that everyone uses because the of the energetic bass riffs. Tracks of the ilk that you may be familiar with include Robin S - Show Me Love, Double 99 - Ripgroove, 187 Lockdown - Gunman and Barkin Brothers - Gordons Groove.

So what's Niche? At the end of the nineties, the mainstream dance world was engrossed in super saw riffs and reaching for the lasers. The speed garage that had dominated for a while was supposedly dead and buried, but in a certain club in Sheffield, it was far from it. That club was called Niche. Over the following years the clubs musical style defined what we now know as Bassline. Other clubs also started popping up in Leeds, Bradford and Birmingham playing a very similar mix of music, but due to the popularity of the club and its tape packs the name 'Niche' became interchangeable with the name of the style of music. It's actually quite hard to define what is Bassline easily, but it could be said that the people that are into it share a common love of silly bass riffs - be they influenced by house beats, or 4x4 garage.

Heartbroken has been one of the biggest tracks on the Bassline scene in recent years and has now crossed over and become one of the biggest dance tracks of the year! More Bassline coming from AATW very soon...