Bassnectar is a free-flowing glucose traveling the veins of individuals, all united under surging bass lines. And Lorin Ashton is its driving force.

The California native will be conjuring up the unimaginable at the Georgia Theatre for his second time Friday night.

“Music is as fun as it is magical, but when it comes to merely DJing in the traditional sense, I am personally more interested in new, inventive combinations of creating and broadcasting music,” Ashton said.

When brewing up his beats, Ashton doesn’t like labeling himself a DJ.

“I commit the verb, but I am not the noun,” he said. “Among other things, I am a musician, and I create music, and I remix music, and I select, and I broadcast, and I layer, and I concoct sonic spells and magical witchcraft that takes some people on a journey. And maybe other people would rather hear something else. But it goes far beyond me to all the people I collaborate with.”

So what is this bass-scientist’s secret formula when performing live?

“At a base level, I use four tracks of audio output routed into a mixer. [I] separate clips of songs cut into different cue points, loops, breakdowns, drops, a cappellas, instrumentals and run them through various FX patches and then trigger other bits of chopped up audio on top of that,” he said.

Ashton views his projects as an outlet of opportunities to give back.

Bassnectar and FreQ Nasty (Darin McFadyen) recently released a track for “March to Tibet” on the Web site Giveback.net.

Ashton said they decided to make the song and give it away not just for one cause in particular, but as a way to encourage people to be charitable.

“In America, we are people of privilege and there is an inherent responsibility within that privilege to participate in the world around us by standing up for justice and caring for those who are less fortunate,” he said.

Ashton also views his project as a freedom of expression, a “free form, no rules experiment.” His live shows are approached with an all-options-open mind-set.

“If it’s a prime time slot at a festival, I will come out swinging, all subtleties aside, rip all my songs apart into bits and completely crush live,” he said. “If it’s a tiny club in a small town I haven’t played in before, I might treat it like a house party, pull out all my old records and just jam out with dope tunes and make everyone go bananas.”

Ashton said the Athens crowd left him with a great first impression last spring.

“I remember specifically at one point, I got all inspired to dip into a few old school styles I hadn’t played in years. It was off the hook,” he said. “My whole crew is psyched to return and drop the heavies!”