Bomb The Bass was the musical undertaking of 1 man and he made it occur. Beat dis!

Producer and artist Tim Simenon (b.1968) of Malaysian origan however born in England created his personal musical fantasy, Bomb The Bass, in 1987 aged 19. Over the following few many years he wouldn’t solely stamp his mark on Dance music, but additionally commercially and later as a profitable and in demand mixer and producer. Bomb The Bass developed from Tim’s early DJ-ing stints and sampling and mixing different songs. He connected with Belgian musician Pascal Gabriel, later to put in writing songs for Kylie and Will Younger, and by utilizing sounds and samples along with their very own association, ultimately got here up with the document “Beat Dis”. The track was launched in early January 1988 and would turn out to be an enormous international hit, making No.2 within the UK and No.1 on the US Dance chart.

Pascal would just a few weeks later be concerned with one other aspiring UK artist, Mark Moore, co-writing and producing the “Theme From S-Specific”, a primary smash just a few months later in 1988. 1988 was the 12 months of Tim making his identify and following up “Beat Dis”, he returned to the highest ten that Spring with “Don’t Make Me Wait”. His debut album, “Into The Dragon”, got here that Summer time and would ship one additional prime ten hit earlier than the 12 months was out, a canopy of Aretha Franklin’s “I Say A Little Prayer”, with singer Maureen Walsh making her debut efficiency. However Tim was not executed with 1988 but as he would co-produce the track “Buffalo Stance” for Swedish singer and rapper Neneh Cherry. The track would go on to be an enormous worldwide hit into 1989. Tim went into 1989 and past mixing and producing for different arists, most notably a remix of Seal’s debut solo hit, “Loopy”, in late 1990.

His Bomb The Bass undertaking returned in 1991 with one other killer chart smash within the type of “Winter In July” and his subsequent album, “Unknown Territory”, which adopted “Into The Dragon” into the UK prime twenty, though the 2 different singles from that album missed the UK prime 40. He was again once more in 1994, nevertheless, making the chart with “Bug Powder Mud” and “Darkheart”, each from his third studio album “Clear”. Tim spent the remainder of the 90’s engaged on different initiatives most notably as producer of the 1997 Depeche Mode album, “Extremely”, which topped the UK chart and went to No.5 in America, shifting over 4 million copies. Tim produced the lead single, “Barrel Of A Gun” (UK No.4) together with the three different singles lifted kind the album. He combined and remixed songs and composed music for movie scores (‘Mission Inconceivable’, ‘Romeo + Juliet’).

Underneath the Bomb The Bass banner, Tim made a return in 2008 with the album “Future Chaos” and its direct comply with up “Again To Gentle” in 2010. He performed his first stay set in 2008 for twenty years at London’s Astoria Membership, and recorded and launched “In The Solar” in 2013. However in 2020, Tim introduced he was “executed” with the music enterprise. Is that this it then or will there be a renaissance? Solely Tim will inform…!

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