Bomb The Bass – Beat Dis · The Very Best Of Bomb The Bass (1999)

Bomb The Bass is the group name for Tim Simenon's innovative dance collective who burst on to the developing underground, acid-house scene in the late 1980s under the auspices of pioneering label Rhythm King.

Simenon, born in london in 1968, was a DJ at the legendary Wag club when he decided to attend a studio engineering course. With a bag full of records to sample from his studio trickery allied to the growth of homemade dance records he put together his first record Beat Dis wich reached number 2 in the UKin february 1988.

With it's innovative and starting use of samples, from Thunderbirds to the hi-fi demonstrtation LP "Journey Into Stereophonic Sound" it was hugely influential on the UK dance scene and a pop world looking for inspiration.

Meanwhile Simenon helped to pioneer the DJ-as-artist trend, pre dating Norman Cook and giving namechecks, within the records, to such luminaries of the wheels of steel as westwood and Mark Moore (Of S-Express Fame)

The debut album from Bomb The Bass was Into The Dragon released in october 1988 wich produced two further top 10 hits in the same year - Megablast / Don't Make Me Wait and Say A Little Player featuring the vocals of Maureen Walsh.

Simenon continued to produce several massive hits and groundbreaking tracks, for other artists, Neneh Cherry "Buffalo Stance", Adamski "Killer" and Seal's "Crazy". Not gaining enough credit for these collaborations he return to Bomb The Bass with another top 10 hit "Winter In July", in 1991 taken from the second album, "Unkown Territory". The Album marked a change of direction more trip hop than techno.

Around this time he was forced to change the group's name, temporarily, falling foul of sensitive types during the Gulf war!

Tim Simenon continues to produce other acts, working with Bjork and Naomi Campbell, among others, while Bomb The Bass activities are on hold!

TRACKLIST

Beat Dis (12" Version) 5:58

Megablast (Rap Merlin & DJ Dezire) 6:52

Say A Little Prayer 5:28

The Air You Breathe 6:53

Don't Make Me Wait 4:19

Liquid Metal 4:24

Shake It 5:11

Dynamite Beats 1:46

Run Baby Run 4:47

On The Cut (2000 AD) 3:53

Hey You 3:24

Switching Channels 4:48

Dune Buggy Attack 4:49

Winter In July (Ubiquity Mix) 7:13

Megamix 2:57

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