Bass house in 2026 still lives or dies on one thing: whether the low end makes the room lean forward before anyone has checked the track title. Montell2099’s ME&YOU does that without rushing the payoff. Released 25 September 2026 on NIGHTMODE as the B-side of the double single BACKAGAIN : ME&YOU, it is the Auckland producer’s first release on the LA label, and it sits in a sweet spot between electro house weight and a more open club groove.
The submission tags the track as Bass House / Electro House, and the arrangement backs that up. Public notes on the release describe a steady four-on-the-floor pulse, echoing vocals, a heavy bassline and chest-shaking wobbles sitting under the surface. Instead of building toward one giant drop and then collapsing, Montell2099 lets the record move through rises and valleys. The darker low end stays in the body while the vocal refrain keeps a lighter edge on top. Qobuz lists the cut at 4:11, with Montell Pinny credited as composer, arranger and author, under the NIGHTMODE banner.
That dual personality is the point of the release. NIGHTMODE framed BACKAGAIN : ME&YOU as one drop with two different vibes, tied to a larger rollout built around two connected bodies of work, referred to in label posts as RE-WIRE and MONOCHROME. BACKAGAIN leans into a bass-centric collision of trap and house. ME&YOU stays closer to the dancefloor, riding a fluid groove rather than a single peak. Some coverage has also heard future garage and electronica in the vocal space, which fits a producer who has never stayed in one lane. For a bass house playlist, the useful part is simpler: it is mixable, physical, and it does not burn out in the first ninety seconds.
Montell2099 is the project of Montell Pinny, originally from Katikati and based in Auckland. He started making beats as a teenager, including early work in FL Studio, and broke out of Aotearoa New Zealand’s electronic scene around 2015. Over the past decade the catalog has moved through trap, hip-hop, hardwave, drum and bass, dubstep, house and hyperpop. Press around this single points to support and collaborative work alongside names such as RL Grime, Wilkinson, 21 Savage, Mura Masa, Netsky, Alison Wonderland, What So Not and Charli XCX. Rolling Stone Australia has highlighted his live shows, including a booking that made him the first New Zealand artist to play Tomorrowland. His debut album DUALITY arrived in December 2025 on his own 2099 imprint, a nine-track record that already showed the same refusal to pick one genre and stay there.
ME&YOU feels like the club-facing side of that story. Bass house and electro house have held a steady share of Beatport’s house family through 2026, sitting next to tech house rather than replacing it. The records that travel are the ones with a clear kick-bass relationship, a hook you can clock in a noisy room, and enough movement that a DJ can ride them for more than one phrase. ME&YOU is built for that job. The title is almost nothing, two words joined by an ampersand, and the vocal is used more like texture than a full narrative. The relationship in the name stays suspended while the bass does the talking.
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What do you think of this side of Montell2099’s sound, the rolling bass house cut rather than the trap-leaning A-side? Drop it in the comments.
