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London, England (1987 – present)
Bomb the Bass (formed 1987, in London, England) is the umbrella title for the output of British musician and producer, Tim Simenon. The band, which has evolved its style over the years, has been classed as electronic or dance.
As a name, Bomb the Bass came from Simenon’s approach to collaging and mixing sounds whilst DJing in the mid to late 1980s; he says “samples were either scratched in live or sampled and looped on top of the rhythm section. So the concept was one of bombing the bass line with different ideas, with a collage of sounds. Bombing was a graffiti term for writing, like people would ‘bomb’ trains or whatever.”
Released in 1987, the band’s debut single was Beat Dis, with composition credited to Emilio Pasquel / Captain Black / DJ Kid 33. Keenly disguised as a U.S. import on the Mister-Ron imprint, in an attempt to conjure the mystique of Bomb the Bass being an underground New York act, the single exceeded mere expectations by eventually reaching number two on the UK charts.
Its roaring success put the then still relatively unknown Simenon on the front cover of Britain’s most serious, and highly influential music newspaper, the NME. This event was notable not only for being the moment when the previously pro-rock / anti-disco paper sided with post-disco dance music (at this time indie was the NME’s genre du jour), recognising and valuing Simenon for being a DJ first and foremost, rather than a musician; but also for the dawn of the term DJ Culture. Used as the cover’s sub-heading, the term would henceforth become the accepted term for the incoming trend (of which Simenon was arguably one of the UK’s pioneers) of DJs as superstars, and which would dominate popular music at least for the next decade.
As a name, Bomb the Bass came from Simenon’s approach to collaging and mixing sounds whilst DJing in the mid to late 1980s; he says “samples were either scratched in live or sampled and looped on top of the rhythm section. So the concept was one of bombing the bass line with different ideas, with a collage of sounds. Bombing was a graffiti term for writing, like people would ‘bomb’ trains or whatever.”
Released in 1987, the band’s debut single was Beat Dis, with composition credited to Emilio Pasquel / Captain Black / DJ Kid 33. Keenly disguised as a U.S. import on the Mister-Ron imprint, in an attempt to conjure the mystique of Bomb the Bass being an underground New York act, the single exceeded mere expectations by eventually reaching number two on the UK charts.
Its roaring success put the then still relatively unknown Simenon on the front cover of Britain’s most serious, and highly influential music newspaper, the NME. This event was notable not only for being the moment when the previously pro-rock / anti-disco paper sided with post-disco dance music (at this time indie was the NME’s genre du jour), recognising and valuing Simenon for being a DJ first and foremost, rather than a musician; but also for the dawn of the term DJ Culture. Used as the cover’s sub-heading, the term would henceforth become the accepted term for the incoming trend (of which Simenon was arguably one of the UK’s pioneers) of DJs as superstars, and which would dominate popular music at least for the next decade.
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ValeraLipatov wrote:
Спасибо за Z19!! Это было великолепно...)
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Rob209 wrote:
new picture anyone ?? http://www.last.fm/music/Bomb+the+Bass/+images/61928799
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MrCheM wrote:
Back to light is a great album, I'm fan :D
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kozhushko9 wrote:
Тимофей красавец! За Ultra отдельное ему спасибо![2]
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baacardi wrote:
Who the hell is Paul Conboy and does he sing for any other groups? I really like his voice and couldn't find any info about him (leave me a shout if you know?). I only heard of these guys because Lanegan sang on a track... Glad I did though - Back to Light & Future Chaos are fucking brilliant albums.
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A1enochka wrote:
да хороши!!!!!!!!
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doozer77 wrote:
Тимофей красавец! За Ultra отдельное ему спасибо!
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Varnish_ice wrote:
пиздаты
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Slavomir wrote:
Back To Light RULES!!!! One of the best electronic album I've ever heard!
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antiqwar wrote:
Очень качественно!, очень круто!- я давно искал что то подобное- и нашёл вас))
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dprssvmnds wrote:
megablast is still killing me after all this time!!! thanks!!! the music of xenon2;)))
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m-chill wrote:
"Up the mountain" <3
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monKey_shit wrote:
просто люблю
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DM_Killer wrote:
Ай, молодца!!!
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tosika wrote:
ништяк
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Fabio7676 wrote:
Beautiful Group!
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gorgeous_pink wrote:
dark, sexy, soft, warm, cold... absolutely brilliant! love this album <3
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dehfolt_sister wrote:
wow! взорвали... гениально!
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Fluxx_ wrote:
Really, really great album.
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julienMD wrote:
up the mountain!!!!!!
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