Memphis Emerges As New Hub for Underground Bass

Memphis Emerges As New Hub for Underground Bass

Fika and EOS

Memphis? You mean the place where Key Glock is from? The place with the BBQ?

Yes, Memphis – the home of a fresh, burgeoning bass scene and the COHESION event series

One thing that all the collectives (New Dream, The Depths, arrival.) behind COHESION have in common is a dedication to fostering the future of the underground. 

Bryson Todd

That means putting on new artists.

That means taking risks.

This lineup is just that.

COHESION

Audio Artists

The Depths

Equal parts modular synths, granular processing, and wildly curious imagination, ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ต๐˜€ are a Memphis-based duo in exploration of low-end configurations that buzz the mind and feed the soul.

A peek at their discography reveals a polished subaquatic sonic vessel voyaging across the ocean floor, warping currents into textured swells of glitch hop splendor.

Fylum

Fylum

Thatโ€™s why itโ€™s our absolute pleasure to be hosting the world debut of ๐—™๐˜†๐—น๐˜‚๐—บ, a Nashville-based artist who has slowly been making waves in the left field with a palette stretching through glitch hop, breaks, downtempo, phonk, latin disco, and genres yet to be charted.

Gill_Yum

Gill_Yum

Traversing glitch scapes like a manic ice climber, ๐—š๐—ถ๐—น๐—น_๐—ฌ๐˜‚๐—บ dwells in realms of low-end mayhem, downtempo bliss, and high-level frequency fragmentation.

In examination of his ๐“š๐“ฎ๐“ฎ๐“น ๐“ฝ๐“ฑ๐“ฎ ๐““๐“ป๐“ฎ๐“ช๐“ถ ๐“๐“ต๐“ฒ๐“ฟ๐“ฎ mix, we are met with a nonlinear storyteller capable of wading through waters of every dimension – from kleepton to noombis.

EOS

EOS

TNF alumnus and ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น. label affiliate ๐—˜๐—ข๐—ฆ is an auditory architect thatโ€™s been helping shape the new school for quite some time now. Making his entrance in the scene in 2019 with projects like Waves and Pile of Styles, the Colorado-based sonician really made his splash at Suwannee 2023.

Since then, the Pile has only grown with a well-established discipline of downtempo lullabies, glitch hop war hammers, and journeyborn expeditions.

Fika

Tipperโ€™s gone, the new school is here, and charging from the front is the downtempo dream dispenser, the left-field conquistador, and sonic cartographer ๐—™๐—ถ๐—ธ๐—ฎ.

With a live performance thatโ€™s nothing short of transformational, Fika wields a trademark sound and nuanced arrangement technique that stands in a pocket of its own.

Visual Artists

Kphex

Globule distorter and generative flow samurai ๐—ž๐—ฝ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜… has been mixing frames and pushing pixels since 2019, developing a trademark glow with every composition.

Just like an underground bass community sprouting up in Memphis, the art Kphex dispenses is as unexpected as it is entrancing.

 

 
 
 
 
 
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๐—›๐˜†๐—ฝ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ

The mixed-media maze woven by Memphis-based Hypnocode is hard to escape, but once you’re submerged in the pixels he spins, you wonโ€™t want to be anywhere else. 

An illusionist through and through, and a driving force in the Tennessee visual delivery system, the aspiring designer rounds out our VJ deployment for the evening.

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Grab your tickets to Cohesion, taking place in Memphis, TN, at Growlers on November 6th, 2026, here.

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