Someone Up In This Bitch Explain Booty Bass...

it is music refined to a sort of zen science: so fast all you can do is shake your ass to it.

It's very fast, bass-driven dance music, generally with rapping and call-and-response and high sexual content. The rapping is usually pretty technically bad but it doesnt detract from the music. The beats are electro-influenced and the bass sounds are generally amazingly deep and designed to only sound great on a really expensive stereo.

I don't think DJ Assault is taking the piss either: booty bass is generally pretty funny.

As for taking the piss, I think Assault and DJ Godfather know their shit is funny.

Another thing, there generally is not any rapping in the Miami sense on the records. Mainly, it is just vocal samples that are hacked into the beats and double as drum sounds.

I think it is also more of a dj style than a musical genre. Those records are very much tools. The style is derived more from hip-hop mixing, more scratching, beat juggling, and cutting in and out, rather than the smoother disco style of longer mixes. Usually the 1200's are jacked up to +15 so that just about anything can be fast enough for the mix. You will hear anything from Deepchord, to Aril Brikha, to Underground Resistance tossed into the mix with hip-hop, jungle, and electro.

DJ Zap, DJ Godfather, DJ Assault, and Earl Mixin' McKinney are the main players on the radio. Andy Kelman can probably fill you better than I can these days, as I have been drifting away from dance music lately.

are the other volumes good, anyone?

I luvvit!