Artist: Bomb the Bass
Genre(s):
Electronic
Rock
Rap: Hip-Hop
Dance
Discography:
Assorted 12's
Year: 2005
Tracks: 18
Clear
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Unknown Territory
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Into the Dragon
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Beat Dis: The Very Best of Bomb the Bass
Year: 2000
Tracks: 15
Beat Dis
Year: 1999
Tracks: 4
Winter In July CDS
Year: 1991
Tracks: 4
Bomb the Bass' Tim Simenon is a sampladelic British hip-hop producer wHO as well co-produced a pair of massive external hits: Neneh Cherry's "American buffalo Stance" and Seal's "Crazy." Born in Brixton of Malaysian and Scottish origin, Simenon grew interested in dance production afterwards perusal studio engineering and DJing at London's Wag Club, a Mecca for fellow breakbeat mavens wish S-Express' Mark Moore and Coldcut's Jonathan More and Matt Black. In 1987, Simenon constructed a medley of a DJ record coroneted "Thrum Dis" which incorporated samples from Public Enemy to Ennio Morricone to classical tv shows Dragnet and The Thunderbirds. Packaged to resemble a white-label import from America, the track became an subway come to and, afterwards its reprint on Rhythm King, a surprising number deuce demolish on the British charts in early 1988. (Coldcut's "Doctorin' the House" and S-Express' "Paper From S-Express" both followed "Beat Dis" into the Top Ten.)
Later that class, Simenon followed with an LP (Into the Dragon) featuring an expanded Bomb the Bass batting order: producer Jonathan Saul Kane (wHO later recorded as Depth Charge) and vocalists Maureen Walsh and Lauraine Macintosh. Two singles from the album, "Megablast" and an inventive cover of the Burt Bacharach-Dionne Warwick classical "State a Little Prayer," collide with the British Top Ten as well. Also in 1988, Simenon co-produced deuce tracks for the debut of Neneh Cherry, stepdaughter of unblock malarkey trumpeter Don Cherry. Both singles, "Buffalo Stance" and "Manchild," became British Top Ten hits. After complementary operate on his have studio, he too produced a cut for Adamski ("Sea wolf") and interracial a single named "Crazy" for an Adamski protégé, Seal.
With all the outside recording commissions, it took nearly trey age for Simenon to ready a follow-up to the number one Bomb the Bass LP. Unknown Territory finally dropped in 1991, light-emitting diode by some other Top Ten individual, "Winter in July," and card-playing a mid-tempo hip-hop esthetic that would only earn critical attention several years afterward later on existence dubbed trip-hop. He as well produced a range of mountains of acts, from Eternal to Sinead O'Connor during the early '90s, and more fruits of his collaborative nature arrived in 1995 with the third base Bomb the Bass album, Clear. The album featured vocal tracks featuring O'Connor, Justin Warfield, Bernard Fowler, Bim Sherman, and Leslie Winer, as well as the subservient input of Tackhead/On-U Sound compatriots Keith LeBlanc, Doug Wimbish, and Skip McDonald. Simenon once more turned to international work during the late '90s, remixing and producing for David Bowie, Depeche Mode, U2, Gavin Friday, Curve, Booth & The Bad Angel, and Hardfloor.
