beyond the bleep

 

raggatechno-ish tune off the terrific maxi-EP or is it mini-LP Energy on Vinyl

Rhythmatic is a unit with a lot of tunes 

Like this - the Kevin Saunderson sound with monsta sublo bass added

Well actually not a huge tonnage of tunes actually but lotsa remixes of the same tune for sure

Supposedly there was a "stillborn" attempt to do a full album - resulting in this sampler of what was never to come

But then there's Energy on Vinyl, which is '92 and features "Nu Groove" and does almost constitute an album with its 8 tracks - a short-ish album. And there is an attempt to go "beyond the bleep" with a bit of hardcore rave vibe there.

After that a long long silence from Mark Gamble & Leroy Crawford until 2012 

And then in 2016 the Splatter EP

Rhythmatic contributed to Originators project too - bleep pioneers reactivated and reunited for a record pointedly titled The Adventures of A Warped Collective.

https://theoriginators.bandcamp.com/album/the-adventures-of-a-warped-collective

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A lot of bleep artists struggled with where to go next once it was clear the bleep moment had passed

I am conducting an ongoing investigation into "late bleep" - twilight gems of a genre that's passed its historical window

but beyond the golden-hour phase, few of them managed to carve out a new direction

NoW went trip hop with dubby touches (nice enough on Smoker's Delight)

RHK went IDM / ambient, more or less - as Sandoz and as himself (that said, some of the most enjoyable late-bleep or edge-of-bleep-during-bleep's-prime stuff I heard in my investigation-so-far is all the Cabaret Voltaire albums of that time, which are essentially Sweet Exorcist with a bit of Mal on vocals here and there) 

Who else? Well, Rob Gordon had a few leaning-towards-propah-techno bits (I have that RG Projects comp somewhere)

Nexus 21 became Altern-8

Ital Rockers became Iration Steppas, right? the dead end of digi-dub

Unique 3? Ability II? Ubik? 

LFO, of course, did Advance, which... wasn't actually much of an advance on Frequencies, and not nearly as good, but a few nice moments... then much later Sheath was a return to what they did best, and very good.

Dance music is cruel, isn't it....  it's quite rare for people to prosper beyond their allotted Moment

The jungle bods actually did better than the bleepers or the Belgians.... had a longer run of it