The sonic structure of bass music encompasses many different genres, such as breakbeat, dubstep and jungle. But it's with drum 'n' bass that this sound first made its way into nightclubs in India at the turn of this millennium. Internet penetration was on an ascendant curve. A young and affluent middle class was opening its ears to global trends. And consequently, clubs in Mumbai started experimenting with drum 'n' bass DJs in the mid-noughties, laying the foundation for a subsequent electronic music boom that now seems to have taken the country by storm.

Sohail Arora was one such DJ, who cut his teeth at Zenzi, the iconic watering hole in Bandra that shut shop in 2011. "I used to go there around 2006 and 2007 and got introduced to this music thanks to Kris Correa [the resident DJ at the club]. Then, a friend of mine and I started playing sets on Monday nights, when the place would be empty. And since I was also a programmer at Blue Frog at the time, I was curating a lot of interesting bass music, too. So finally, in February 2010, I decided to start Bass Camp festival," Arora tells us.