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Tim Simenon

Tim Simenon

Tim Simenon has been played on NTS in shows including Bahamian Moor, featured first on 27 September 2016. Songs played include Play Dead, I'll Strangle You (Filmic Mix) and Laugh Gas (Remix 12'').

(born 21 June 1967, Brixton, London) is a musician, composer, record producer, and label boss, most famous for his work as Bomb the Bass.

Beat Dis, Bug Powder Dust, One To One Religion are just a few of the titles which describe the vast sound.

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."[1]

In between Bomb the Bass projects, Simenon continued to produce, remix and collaborate with a wide range of artists. In addition to collaborating with John Foxx on the 12" single Remember as Nation 12 (which enjoyed a measure of success in clubs and raves across the UK), other acts included Björk, David Bowie, Massive Attack, Ash, Seal, rap act Consolidated, French producer Hector Zazou, Gavin Friday and Depeche Mode. The latter two projects would both have a major effect on Simenon. The Gavin Friday project,Shag Tobacco, not only catapulted Friday into the mainstream (spawning the track Angel which found its way onto the hugely successful soundtrack of the Romeo & Juliet movie), but also caught the attention of a pair of British musicians on the look out for a new producer: Dave Gahan and Martin Gore of Depeche Mode. Says Gahan, "There was loads of names being thrown at us (to produce Depeche Mode's next album after Songs of Faith and Devotion), but in the end we picked (Simenon) because Martin (Gore) and I really liked the Gavin Friday album that he did. Shag Tobacco is an absolutely brilliant album, (and) we really loved the sounds he produced." [1] As a result, Simenon was brought on board to produce what would become Depeche Mode's first album without multi-instrumentalist and production-strong Alan Wilder, Ultra; a project that would demand eighteen months, due to worsening divisions within the band acerbated by Dave Gahan's battle with heroin addiction. Upon release, the album went straight into the UK charts at number one, selling 40,000 copies in its first week of release, and launched a number of singles, including Barrel of a Gun, It's No Good, and Home

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Tim Simenon

Tim Simenon has been played on NTS in shows including Bahamian Moor, featured first on 27 September 2016. Songs played include Play Dead, I'll Strangle You (Filmic Mix) and Laugh Gas (Remix 12'').

(born 21 June 1967, Brixton, London) is a musician, composer, record producer, and label boss, most famous for his work as Bomb the Bass.

Beat Dis, Bug Powder Dust, One To One Religion are just a few of the titles which describe the vast sound.

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."[1]

In between Bomb the Bass projects, Simenon continued to produce, remix and collaborate with a wide range of artists. In addition to collaborating with John Foxx on the 12" single Remember as Nation 12 (which enjoyed a measure of success in clubs and raves across the UK), other acts included Björk, David Bowie, Massive Attack, Ash, Seal, rap act Consolidated, French producer Hector Zazou, Gavin Friday and Depeche Mode. The latter two projects would both have a major effect on Simenon. The Gavin Friday project,Shag Tobacco, not only catapulted Friday into the mainstream (spawning the track Angel which found its way onto the hugely successful soundtrack of the Romeo & Juliet movie), but also caught the attention of a pair of British musicians on the look out for a new producer: Dave Gahan and Martin Gore of Depeche Mode. Says Gahan, "There was loads of names being thrown at us (to produce Depeche Mode's next album after Songs of Faith and Devotion), but in the end we picked (Simenon) because Martin (Gore) and I really liked the Gavin Friday album that he did. Shag Tobacco is an absolutely brilliant album, (and) we really loved the sounds he produced." [1] As a result, Simenon was brought on board to produce what would become Depeche Mode's first album without multi-instrumentalist and production-strong Alan Wilder, Ultra; a project that would demand eighteen months, due to worsening divisions within the band acerbated by Dave Gahan's battle with heroin addiction. Upon release, the album went straight into the UK charts at number one, selling 40,000 copies in its first week of release, and launched a number of singles, including Barrel of a Gun, It's No Good, and Home

Original source Last.fm

Tracks featured on

Most played tracks

Play Dead
Björk (Tim Simenon mix)
One Little Indian2002
I'll Strangle You (Filmic Mix)
Hector Zazou, Gérard Depardieu, Anneli Drecker, Bill Laswell, Tim Simenon
Crammed Discs1992
Laugh Gas (Remix 12'')
Haruomi Hosono (Bomb The Bass, Chris Porter, Tim Simenon mix)
TriStar Music1993
Say A Little Prayer
Bomb The Bass (Mark Saunders, Tim Simenon mix)
Rhythm King Records1988