No studio. No prep. Just Mark Instinct from Calgary and BARE from Los Angeles — caught on the spot for the debut episode of Quick & Dirty, WOMP TV’s series of impromptu backstage interviews with bass artists. No filter. Straight up.
M.O.B. — Made of Bass — started when Mark Instinct flew to LA, linked up with BARE, and they just started working. No grand plan. No label. Two producers with deep hip-hop roots who found out they vibed hard in a room together and ran with it. Calgary meets Los Angeles. Brother from another mother. The project was born in 2010 and by early 2011 it was already rolling.
The process is exactly what you’d expect from two people who are genuinely having fun: BARE builds melodies, Mark makes them better, BARE makes them better again. Sometimes a tune comes together. Sometimes it gets an hour of work and both of them get frustrated and throw it in the bin. Either way the session was worth it. That looseness — the willingness to kill something that isn’t working — is where the good stuff comes from.
The energy in the YouTube videos is real. They are that loose, that locked in, that much fun in the studio. When two producers with that much chemistry sit down and just go — it shows. M.O.B. is the proof.