- 01The ThemeUnique 3Yet except for “The Theme”, the earliest Bleep hits were not backed by the marketing and promotional power of large record labels.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 02LFOLFOListening back to the Ozone Recordings catalogue today, you’ll struggle to find many tracks that are quite as timeless, inspired and groundbreaking as “LFO”, “Pressure Dub”, “The Theme”, “Ital’s Anthem” or “Track With No Name”.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 03Pressure DubLFOListening back to the Ozone Recordings catalogue today, you’ll struggle to find many tracks that are quite as timeless, inspired and groundbreaking as “LFO”, “Pressure Dub”, “The Theme”, “Ital’s Anthem” or “Track With No Name”.from the chapter
- 04Ital’s AnthemItal RockersListening back to the Ozone Recordings catalogue today, you’ll struggle to find many tracks that are quite as timeless, inspired and groundbreaking as “LFO”, “Pressure Dub”, “The Theme”, “Ital’s Anthem” or “Track With No Name”.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 05Track With No NameForgemastersListening back to the Ozone Recordings catalogue today, you’ll struggle to find many tracks that are quite as timeless, inspired and groundbreaking as “LFO”, “Pressure Dub”, “The Theme”, “Ital’s Anthem” or “Track With No Name”.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 06TripwireSuccessThe “Strip Down Acid” mix of “Tripwire” is particularly raw and wild - all booming bass, mangled TB-303 acid lines, crunchy machine beats and sampled drum solos - while Countzero’s sparse but tough “Positive Nuisance #2” is the epitome of the hard and heavy sound popular in key Sheffield clubs at the time.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 07Positive Nuisance #2CountzeroThe “Strip Down Acid” mix of “Tripwire” is particularly raw and wild - all booming bass, mangled TB-303 acid lines, crunchy machine beats and sampled drum solos - while Countzero’s sparse but tough “Positive Nuisance #2” is the epitome of the hard and heavy sound popular in key Sheffield clubs at the time.from the chapter
- 08Hey! Hey! Can U Relate?DJ MinkFor reasons that are far too complex to explain, Donoghue also ended up with another big local record: DJ Mink’s sweaty and excitable “Hey! Hey! Can U Relate?”, a Robert Gordon production that put Sheffield’s premier Hip-Hop DJ front and centre.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 09MotionPsyanceThey finished the tracks that made up their first Ozone release in early 1989, and it was these Detroit Techno influenced workouts - “Motion” and “Diffusion” - that got them a deal with Ozone Recordings as Trak 1.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 10DiffusionPsyanceThey finished the tracks that made up their first Ozone release in early 1989, and it was these Detroit Techno influenced workouts - “Motion” and “Diffusion” - that got them a deal with Ozone Recordings as Trak 1.from the chapter
- 11For ThisTrak 1On their second and third Trak 1 EPs (“For This” and “Street Violence”), Scott and Garbutt variously fused elements of Brooklyn Breakbeat, Detroit Techno and Chicago Acid.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 12Street ViolenceTrak 1On their second and third Trak 1 EPs (“For This” and “Street Violence”), Scott and Garbutt variously fused elements of Brooklyn Breakbeat, Detroit Techno and Chicago Acid.from the chapter
- 13Global WorldIonicTheir first single as Ionic, “Global World”, also cleverly joined the dots between Bleep, early Orbital and Belgian Techno.from the chapter
- 14New Age TechnologyNew Age TechnologyTheir first missive under the guise, also called “New Age Technology”, boasted the kind of heavyweight bass, post-industrial percussion and alien melody lines that were Bleep’s aural trademarks.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 15You SayNew Age TechnologyTheir subsequent follow-up 12”, “You Say”, sounded like it could have been produced by Richard H Kirk and Robert Gordon during their short-lived XON collaboration.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 16Hypnotize1703Check, for example, the pianos, breakbeats, bleeps and druggy bass of 1703’s “Hypnotize”, and the throbbing sub-bass, New York Deep House flourishes and Disco vocal samples of Zone’s “Don’t You Want Some More”.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 17Don’t You Want Some MoreZoneCheck, for example, the pianos, breakbeats, bleeps and druggy bass of 1703’s “Hypnotize”, and the throbbing sub-bass, New York Deep House flourishes and Disco vocal samples of Zone’s “Don’t You Want Some More”.from the chapter
- 18Hardbeat & BasslineVarious ArtistsBefore he left, Scott oversaw the production of Ozone Recordings’ first compilation, a double-vinyl retrospective titled “Hardbeat & Bassline”.from the chapter