KORG Volca Nubass £179
I seem to have been writing about the enduring appeal of the Acid bassline for most of my journalistic life. For those too young or who have been in a cupboard for the last 30 years, the Acid bassline was born out of the Roland TB-303, a bass machine originally designed to accompany guitars but then famously used and abused by a generation of ravers from the late 80s onwards. Its part in the formation of dance music – along with TR drum machines, a fair slice of naivety, good fortune and drugs – cannot be understated and its sound remains with us today.
However, that sound now rarely comes from the original machine – now so hugely expensive and the very opposite of why it was taken up so readily in the late 80s – but from clones, software versions and many Roland rehashes. Korg’s Volca Bass was one such imitator, released back in 2013, and part of
