Bass house in 2026 is not polite. It wants the low end fat, the groove locked at festival tempo, and a remix that can sit next to originals without sounding like a second thought. That is the lane Nico Falla is working with RAW (Chris Candela & VANGUARD DIST Remix), out now on his own imprint The Sun Grooves.
The original RAW already lived in Bass House at 130 BPM in E-flat minor. This version keeps that same key and tempo, trimmed to 3:41, and hands the arrangement to Chris Candela and VANGUARD DIST. SubmitHub tagged the package EDM, which is fair as a wide net, but the record itself is club-first bass house: punchy drums, a heavy low end, and the kind of functional structure DJs actually use when the floor is already moving. I am not going to invent vocal hooks or lyric stories here. What the release tells you is the point: it is a remix of a track Falla already put out on The Sun Grooves in January, now recut for the same label and the same 130 BPM pocket.
If you have been following Latin American electronic music the last couple of years, Falla’s name has been hard to miss. He is a 22-year-old DJ and producer from Guatemala whose catalog sits across Tech House, Bass House, Afro House, and UK Garage. That mix is the whole pitch. He is not trying to pick one lane and stay there. He is stacking grooves that travel: rolling basslines for the club, UK swing when he wants it, Afro-leaning percussion when the track needs more body.
The live résumé is already bigger than most artists his age. He has played two Road to Ultra dates, Ultra Resistance, multiple Empire Music Festival events, and a surprise mini set at Tomorrowland. Those rooms are not “local hero” rooms. They are the circuit where a 130 BPM bass house cut either works in the first eight bars or it does not. Support has followed the same path. His music has been picked up by Tiesto, Benny Benassi, Don Diablo, Afrojack, Matroda, and Kaskade. “No Rhythm” hit the Top 4 on Beatport’s Bass House chart. His remix of “Eres Para Mí” passed a million streams across platforms. As co-founder of The Sun Grooves, he has also pushed the label catalog past 1.5 million streams.
Recent originals like “Blue” and “UK?” plus collaborations with FOMO and Zen World sit in the same story: keep releasing, keep widening the map, keep the dancefloor first. The Candela connection is not new either. The two have already shared The Sun Grooves releases, including Nasty and other bass-leaning cuts. VANGUARD DIST coming in on this remix just extends that circle. In a year when tech house and bass house still dominate Beatport and festival peak hours, a tight 130 BPM remix on an artist-run Latin American label is exactly the kind of record that gets copied into USB folders.
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RAW in this remix form is not a soft reintroduction. It is Falla, Candela, and VANGUARD DIST putting a proven bass house idea back on the floor at the tempo the scene is already speaking. Hit play, feel the 130, and tell me in the comments whether this remix hits harder than the original for you.
