![]() It suffered under hastily imposed (and unofficial) censorship broadcast regulations, as the outbreak of the First Gulf War prompted UK broadcasters, especially the main national music station BBC Radio 1, to blacklist a variety of songs and acts deemed potentially controversial due to their content or titles. In February 1991, the first single from Bomb the Bass' new album Unknown Territory, "Love So True" was released with vocals from Loretta Heywood. In the cartridge-based console versions, the music is radically simplified, being purely synthesized and lacking the voice samples of the computer versions. Sections of the music were sampled and then re-sequenced (by computer game musician David Whittaker). The game was one of the first instances of a computer being programmed to play a pop single with reasonable accuracy. The Amiga version of the loading music is based on the same track, but significantly different, with such changes as helicopter sound effects at the beginning and end. There are two versions of the track in the game: a nearly faithful rendition (only missing a few spoken lines) as the loading music, and a simplified version as the in-game background music. In turn, this song features many samples from Sly and the Family Stone song, " You Can Make It If You Try", and its theme seems heavily inspired by The Splash Band track "The End (Disco Version)" released in 1984, which is itself based on the theme of John Carpenter's film Assault on Precinct 13. The Bitmap Brothers cooperated with Tim Simenon to include the 1988 Bomb the Bass hip hop track "Megablast (Hip Hop on Precinct 13)" as theme music for the computer game Xenon 2 Megablast, which is also the origin of the game's subtitle. Īlong with Trevor Horn, he co-produced "Krazy", a remix of the song " Crazy" by Seal, which Simenon had originally mixed. Morgan informed Cherry's record company of Simenon's interest in the track, and a deal was struck for him to produce what became "Buffalo Stance". He co-produced Neneh Cherry's " Buffalo Stance" after a chance encounter with Jamie Morgan of band Morgan-McVey in London nightclub The Wag, where Simenon was doing a DJ set including the track's first incarnation, a Morgan-McVey B-side called "Looking Good Diving With The Wild Bunch." Simenon expressed interest in reworking the track, before alerting Morgan to the approach of a crazed stalker who was trying to kill him. Talking to Sound on Sound magazine many years later, Simenon said of the track's construction: "I suppose I was tuned in to what was current at the time and was able to pick and choose what I wanted with some knowledge of how it should be applied." Also featured were dialogue clips from the television shows Dragnet and Thunderbirds. ![]() Īccording to the BBC, which featured "Beat Dis" on their clip-based TOTP2 show, the track contains an alleged 72 samples, including lifts from hip hop like Public Enemy, funk (including The Jimmy Castor Bunch), and Ennio Morricone. Having already taken a part-time sound course at the School of Audio Engineering in Holloway, Simenon was able to build "Beat Dis" himself - assisted in the process by producer Pascal Gabriel, who went on to experience his own success as co-producer of S'Express and a wide variety of other artists. While the bass line and drum tracks of " Beat Dis" were written by Simenon, the rest of the track was compiled from samples. Pushing the needle: The accelerated success of "Beat Dis" When the record was released by Rhythm King records in the UK (on their Mister-Ron sublabel) it debuted at number five and peaked a week later at number two on the chart of 21 to 27 February 1988, giving Bomb the Bass the chance to appear on Top of the Pops (in a performance that also included Adele Nozedar from Indians in Moscow, who was working for the record company at the time). Simenon then decided to change the name of the project from the Rhythm King All Stars to Bomb the Bass, with Simenon and Gabriel using the names DJ Kid 33 and Emilio Pasquez to give the impression that the record was an American import. However, as the back catalogue of the company was at that point small, the duo used a number of other records and samples from other companies, with the record evolving into " Beat Dis". ![]()
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