The Bassmachine

The release date was originally scheduled for July 2004.{{cite web | url = http://www.shop.alexmusic.se | title = Vad är nytt här? | accessdate = 23 December 2020 | website = Alex Music | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20040723040622/http://www.shop.alexmusic.se | archivedate = 23 July 2004 | language = sv | trans-title = What's new here?}} Before the release on 25 August by Alex Music album was available to pre-order.{{cite web | url = http://shop.alexmusic.se | title = Vad är nytt här? | accessdate = 23 December 2020 | website = Alex Music | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20050201082228/http://shop.alexmusic.se | archivedate = 1 February 2005 | language = sv | trans-title = What's new here?}} Sample of album from Alex Music contained unreleased track.{{cite web | url = http://www.alexmusic.se/basshunter/basshunter.mp3 | title = basshunter.mp3 | access-date = 23 December 2020 | website = Alex Music | archive-date = 12 May 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150512115439/http://www.alexmusic.se/basshunter/basshunter.mp3 | url-status = live }} Basshunter wrote and produced all tracks. On 21 September the promo single "Syndrome de Abstenencia" was released by Alex Music{{cite AV media notes | title = Syndrome de Abstenencia | others = Basshunter | year = 2004 | publisher = Alex Music}} and the only single from album, "The Big Show" was self-released by Basshunter on 27 October.{{cite AV media notes | title = The Big Show | others = Basshunter | year = 2004 | publisher = Self-released}} In 2005 a remastered version of this album was released, with better sound quality and volume.

The album contains ten tracks which last 51 minutes. "The Bassmachine" is the opening track and "Fest folk" is the closing track. The longest track on the album is "Syndrome de Abstenencia", which runs for six minutes and 34 seconds. Opening track is also the shortest track, lasting two minutes and 22 seconds.{{cite AV media notes | title = The Bassmachine | others = Basshunter | year = 2004 | publisher = Alex Music}} David Jeffries from AllMusic described The Bassmachine and The Old Shit as mostly instrumental albums with the pounding and the fury of pre-electronic dance music style of stadium techno which was called jumpstyle.{{cite web | url = https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0002469407 | author = David Jeffries | title = Basshunter – The Early Bedroom Sessions | publisher = AllMusic | accessdate = 30 November 2016 | archive-date = 7 May 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220507160632/https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0002469407 | url-status = live }}

In 2005 "Syndrome de Abstenencia" (Original Mix) was released on compilation album Hard Trance Club Collection Vol. 1.{{cite AV media notes | title = Hard Trance Club Collection Vol. 1 | others = Various artists | year = 2005}} In 2006 on the occasion of the release of the LOL <(^^,)> album,{{cite web | url = http://www.basshunter.se/basshunter.htm | title = Welcome to a new experience! | accessdate = 23 December 2020 | website = Basshunter | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20061107194447/http://www.basshunter.se/basshunter.htm | archivedate = 7 November 2006}} The Bassmachine album was released on Basshunter webpage as The Bass Machine. LOL <(^^,)> included 2006 remix of "Fest folk".{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/lol--mr0000723642 | title = Basshunter – LOL <(^^,)> | accessdate = 19 August 2010 | website = AllMusic | archive-date = 28 November 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161128051155/http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/lol--mr0000723642 | url-status = live }} English version of the song was released on the next version of album as "We Are the Waccos".{{cite web | url = https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/lol--bonus-track-mr0001446371 | title = Basshunter – LOL <(^^,)> [Bonus Track] | accessdate = 23 December 2020 | website = AllMusic}} All tracks from The Bassmachine and seven tracks from The Old Shit was re-released as part of The Early Bedroom Sessions album in 2012.{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-early-bedroom-sessions-mw0002469407 | title = Basshunter – The Early Bedroom Sessions | accessdate = 8 December 2016 | website = AllMusic | archive-date = 21 December 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161221021200/http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-early-bedroom-sessions-mw0002469407 | url-status = live }}

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| headline = The Bassmachine

| title1 = The Bassmachine

| writer1 = {{flat list|

• Jonas Altberg

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| extra1 = Jonas Altberg

| length1 = 2:22

| title2 = The Big Show

| writer2 = Altberg

| extra2 = Altberg

| length2 = 5:36

| title3 = The True Sound

| writer3 = Altberg

| extra3 = Altberg

| length3 = 5:25

| title4 = Train Station

| writer4 = Altberg

| extra4 = Altberg

| length4 = 5:45

| title5 = Contact by Bass

| writer5 = Altberg

| extra5 = Altberg

| length5 = 3:53

| title6 = Syndrome de Abstenencia

| writer6 = Altberg

| extra6 = Altberg

| length6 = 6:34

| title7 = The Warpzone

| writer7 = Altberg

| extra7 = Altberg

| length7 = 5:34

| title8 = Bass Worker

| writer8 = Altberg

| extra8 = Altberg

| length8 = 6:14

| title9 = Transformation Bass

| writer9 = Altberg

| extra9 = Altberg

| length9 = 5:03

| title10 = Fest folk

| writer10 = Altberg

| extra10 = Altberg

| length10 = 4:34

}}

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