Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust 1994 (Remastered)

Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust Support This Channel Bomb the Bass is an electronic music alias of English musician and producer Tim Simenon. 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 “Bug Powder Dust“ is a song by Bomb the Bass, featuring the vocals of Justin Warfield, released as the band’s eighth single in 1994 as the first single from the Clear album. Bug Powder Dust reached number 24 in the UK charts, makes an appearance in many rundowns of ’classic’ British hip-hop and rap tracks, and was voted Select Magazine’s single of the year in 1994. The track incorporates a bassline by Alphonso Johnson, as performed on the title track of Flora Purim’s album, Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly. Johnson is probably best known as having been with the jazz-fusion group Weather Report. A video for the song was directed by Alex Winter. The words “bug powder dust“, and several other lyrics, are references to American writer William S. Burroughs, specifically to his groundbreaking 1959 novel, “Naked Lunch“. #remastered #90smusic @videos80s