- 01Join The FutureTuff Little UnitI’ve been invited along to share the experience, in part to get a sense of the direction they took following the release of the record whose title has been borrowed for this book, “Join The Future”.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 02Acid BrassWilliams Fairey BandThe artist Jeremy Deller has extensively explored the idea in his work, first joining the dots between early UK dance music culture and brass band music - an earlier expression of working class musical culture popular in the North of England - on his 1997 collaboration with Stockport’s Williams Fairey Band, “Acid Brass”.from the chapter
- 03Voodoo RayA Guy Called Gerald…tell the whole story - the impact of ecstasy and dance music culture was felt throughout society, inspiring young people from different backgrounds - it is a hypothesis that rings true when it comes to Bleep & Bass and the similarly-minded electronic music movements that quickly erupted in the months and years following the release of A Guy Called Gerald’s “Voodoo Ray” and Unique 3’s “The Theme”.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 04The ThemeUnique 3…tell the whole story - the impact of ecstasy and dance music culture was felt throughout society, inspiring young people from different backgrounds - it is a hypothesis that rings true when it comes to Bleep & Bass and the similarly-minded electronic music movements that quickly erupted in the months and years following the release of A Guy Called Gerald’s “Voodoo Ray” and Unique 3’s “The Theme”.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 05Ital’s AnthemItal RockersI’d argue that many early Breakbeat Hardcore records were in fact responses to Bleep - and in particular “The Theme”, “Ital’s Anthem”, “Track With No Name”, “Testone”, “Pressure Dub” and “LFO” - tailored to more accurately reflect the strength of the Hip-Hop scene in and around London.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 06Track With No NameForgemastersI’d argue that many early Breakbeat Hardcore records were in fact responses to Bleep - and in particular “The Theme”, “Ital’s Anthem”, “Track With No Name”, “Testone”, “Pressure Dub” and “LFO” - tailored to more accurately reflect the strength of the Hip-Hop scene in and around London.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 07TestoneSweet ExorcistI’d argue that many early Breakbeat Hardcore records were in fact responses to Bleep - and in particular “The Theme”, “Ital’s Anthem”, “Track With No Name”, “Testone”, “Pressure Dub” and “LFO” - tailored to more accurately reflect the strength of the Hip-Hop scene in and around London.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 08Pressure DubAbility III’d argue that many early Breakbeat Hardcore records were in fact responses to Bleep - and in particular “The Theme”, “Ital’s Anthem”, “Track With No Name”, “Testone”, “Pressure Dub” and “LFO” - tailored to more accurately reflect the strength of the Hip-Hop scene in and around London.from the chapter
- 09LFOLFOI’d argue that many early Breakbeat Hardcore records were in fact responses to Bleep - and in particular “The Theme”, “Ital’s Anthem”, “Track With No Name”, “Testone”, “Pressure Dub” and “LFO” - tailored to more accurately reflect the strength of the Hip-Hop scene in and around London.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 10Sonder SomaticBruceI’d long been hearing elements I’d associate with early Bleep & Bass tracks in contemporary Bass music releases, from the murky, late-night hedonism of Bruce’s “Sonder Somatic” (check the clonks, surging sub-bass and off-kilter rhythms of “Cacao” and the rhythmic steel of “Meek”), and the sparse post-Dubstep, Dancehall-influenced creepiness of Peverlist and Kowton’s “Raw Code”, to the buzzing…from the chapter
- 11CacaoBruce…with early Bleep & Bass tracks in contemporary Bass music releases, from the murky, late-night hedonism of Bruce’s “Sonder Somatic” (check the clonks, surging sub-bass and off-kilter rhythms of “Cacao” and the rhythmic steel of “Meek”), and the sparse post-Dubstep, Dancehall-influenced creepiness of Peverlist and Kowton’s “Raw Code”, to the buzzing rave-era revivalism of Paul Woolford’s…from the chapter
- 12MeekBruce…contemporary Bass music releases, from the murky, late-night hedonism of Bruce’s “Sonder Somatic” (check the clonks, surging sub-bass and off-kilter rhythms of “Cacao” and the rhythmic steel of “Meek”), and the sparse post-Dubstep, Dancehall-influenced creepiness of Peverlist and Kowton’s “Raw Code”, to the buzzing rave-era revivalism of Paul Woolford’s phenomenally successful Special Request…from the chapter
- 13Raw CodePeverlist and Kowton…Somatic” (check the clonks, surging sub-bass and off-kilter rhythms of “Cacao” and the rhythmic steel of “Meek”), and the sparse post-Dubstep, Dancehall-influenced creepiness of Peverlist and Kowton’s “Raw Code”, to the buzzing rave-era revivalism of Paul Woolford’s phenomenally successful Special Request project and the bleeping tunefulness of South African producer DJ Mujava’s “Township Funk”.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 14Township FunkDJ Mujava…Somatic” (check the clonks, surging sub-bass and off-kilter rhythms of “Cacao” and the rhythmic steel of “Meek”), and the sparse post-Dubstep, Dancehall-influenced creepiness of Peverlist and Kowton’s “Raw Code”, to the buzzing rave-era revivalism of Paul Woolford’s phenomenally successful Special Request project and the bleeping tunefulness of South African producer DJ Mujava’s “Township Funk”.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 15Pulse XYoungstar‘I definitely think you can hear it in some of Youngstar’s records,’ he explained. ‘He stripped things down to the bare bones for “Pulse X” in a similar spirit to a lot of the minimalism found in early Bleep tunes, while “The Formula” to me has a proper Forgemasters sound - a bit industrial with plenty of bass and cowbell.from the chapter
- 16The FormulaYoungstar‘I definitely think you can hear it in some of Youngstar’s records,’ he explained. ‘He stripped things down to the bare bones for “Pulse X” in a similar spirit to a lot of the minimalism found in early Bleep tunes, while “The Formula” to me has a proper Forgemasters sound - a bit industrial with plenty of bass and cowbell.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 17Raw To Da FloorYoungstarOther tunes like “Raw To Da Floor” have that big focus on the sub, and when pitched down parts of it wouldn’t go amiss in between two Bleep tracks.’from the chapter