Shades is the collaborative bass project of Alix Perez and EPROM, launched in 2015. Perez, born Alex Depauw in Charleroi, Belgium and based in London, made his name in drum and bass on Shogun Audio and his own 1985 Music, while Portland's EPROM shaped a distinctive strain of West Coast midtempo and experimental bass. The pair met producing Foreign Beggars' Modus EP at Red Bull Studios in Los Angeles and started Shades as an outlet for slower, left-field bass. Their catalog runs from the 2015 self-titled EP on Alpha Pup to the albums In Praise of Darkness on Deadbeats in 2018 and From A Vein on 1985 Music in 2022. On stage they pair eerie drum breaks, celestial synths and heavy sub-bass drawn largely from their own productions, with a landmark set at Noisia Invites in 2019. Shades remains one of the most singular collaborations in contemporary bass music.