Nice article.

"...........What’s striking about bleep listening to it today is how well-produced these tracks sound. There’s none of the low-resolution cruddiness of sample-and-breakbeat based hardcore, but a glistening thickness of texture and beat that comes from using analog synths and drum machines, and, in some cases, from making the tracks in professional studios rather than using home studio set-ups. Yet despite its time-defying excellence, bleep is poorly served in terms of compilations: basically, there’s Warp’s Classics double-CD, plus out-of-print comps from the original era. But the good news is that the original vinyl is easy to find. Because bleep dominated the British rave scene between late 1989 and early 1991, the classic tunes were pressed in large numbers, so there’s lots of copies still floating around at reasonable prices......"

http://www.factmag.com/2013/07/22/the-2 ... ever-made/

Good read that...I feel a mix coming on...

Now there's an idea! An amazing era.


"Watch ya bass bins, I'm tellin' ya!"

Bleep & Bass is the legacy of the North! What a legacy it is!! I remember reading about the Sheffield guys N.O.W, L.F.O. etc congregating in Kikis and trying to shake the glass bar (some 2 feet thick) with their subs....some feat indeed! Big up to one of the purest (and starkest) forms of UK dance music out there X