No Bias is a nexus of the Bay Area electronic music underground. A little over three years, a single called “IN TUNE” by RITCHRD (aka Tal Robinson) made it to Bandcamp, marking the label’s very first release. More than 40 singles and EPs later, the label run by Robinson has given platform to dozens of producers, from critically acclaimed creators like Bored Lord and Tomu DJ to all the lesser known but no less talented artists with ties to the Bay.
Bay Area Renegade Trax, the label’s latest release, celebrates that inspiring, interconnected community with a compilation of 23 tracks by 24 artists. Arranged in alphabetical order by artist name, the collection kicks off with Agropol’s “Waiver,” a 145+ BPM techno piece signaling what’s to come: Most of the compilation is hard and fast. Sometimes there’s an ear worm, sometimes it’s just gritty. Here it’s unrelenting, pounding four on the floor; there it’s jittery and breaking apart, a juke two-stepper, or something rhythmically harder to identify. Everywhere, it’s high-quality taste, pushing forward the potency of club music—and that’s exactly representative of No Bias.
On the No Bias Bandcamp, you can order a double sided 25 min cassette featuring all the tracks mixed.
Full tracklist:
- AGROPOL – “Waiver”
- Bastiengoat – “Lap Dog”
- Bored Lord – “Slip Away”
- DJ Buck – “Origin8”
- DJ JUANNY – “MANGO VERDE”
- estoc & FinishHer – “Slumber”
- Farsight – “Vrouw 1”
- Holodec – “BODY KIT”
- Lonald J. Bandz – “Real Yearners Know”
- MALT – “Pretty Bass”
- Mars Kasei – “Souls Touch”
- QEMIST – “Ur Turn Now”
- RAYRECK – “Check It”
- rental vhs – “Pushing Away”
- RITCHRD – “Uh (Ah)”
- SAMMI® – “PERPLEX THE FLEX”
- Soeneido – “Almustafa”
- Soulox – “Put Your Trust in Me”
- Swamp Meet!; Bored Lord; Soeneido – “Shinin'”
- Taraneh – “Perfectly Safe”
- Tom Marsi – “DUH!”
- Tomu DJ – “Brain Damage”
- Zero Idea – “Spinner”
