Join The Future: UK Bleep & Bass 1988-91Various Artists

• Unique 3 – Only The Begining
• Original Clique – Come To Papa
• Demonik – Labyrinthe
• Nexus 21 – Self Hypnosis (Mr Whippy Remix)
• Cabaret Voltaire – Easy Life (Jive Turkey Mix)
• Alfanso – Dub Feels Nice (Version 4) [Previously Unreleased]
• Ital Rockers – Dreams
• Man Machine – Animal (DJ Martin & DJ Holmes Primordial Jungle Mix)
• Nightmares On Wax – 21st Kong
• Tuff Little Unit – Join The Future (Original Instrumental Mix) [Previously Unreleased]

• 1. Unique 3 – Only The Begining
• 2. Original Clique – Come To Papa
• 3. Demonik – Labyrinthe
• 4. Nexus 21 – Self Hypnosis (Mr Whippy Remix)
• 5. Cabaret Voltaire – Easy Life (Jive Turkey Mix)
• 6. Alfanso – Dub Feels Nice (Version 4) [Previously Unreleased]
• 7. Ital Rockers – Dreams
• 8. Man Machine – Animal (DJ Martin & DJ Holmes Primordial Jungle Mix)
• 9. Nightmares On Wax – 21st Kong
• 10. Tuff Little Unit – Join The Future (Original Instrumental Mix) [Previously Unreleased]

Wicked compilation via JD Twitch’s (Optimo) Cease & Desist label!

'Join The Future: UK Bleep & Bass 1988-91' features a mix of historic cuts, period classics, overlooked gems and unreleased material. It was mastered for release by Warp Records co-founder and Forgemasters member Rob Gordon, a producer, remixer and studio engineer who arguably did more than anyone else to define the sub-heavy sound of the style.

Gordon also contributed a previously unheard version of Alfanso’s “Dub Feels Nice”, a near mythical track he produced in 1991 that has never received a proper commercial release. The cut has been a secret weapon for a handful of Sheffield DJs for almost 30 years, most notably Gordon’s fellow Forgemasters member Winston Hazel. Fittingly, the compilation also includes the original unreleased instrumental version of Tuff Little Unit’s Steel City classic “Join The Future”.

Many of the other tracks on the compilation are rare, hard to find or have not been issued on vinyl or digital since their initial release. It opens with Unique 3 and the Mad Musician’s “Only The Beginning” – the 1988 A-side of the first ever Bleep record – and also includes tracks and remixes from fellow scene pioneers Ital Rockers (an early alias of dub hero Iration Steppas), Nightmares on Wax, Cabaret Voltaire and DJ Martin and DJ Homes, the previously unheralded Chapeltown duo behind the influential Leeds-based studio and record label BASSIC.

Elsewhere on the compilation you’ll find Birmingham producer Demonik’s sought-after debut single “Layrinthe”, a hard-to-find cut from Bedford-based men of mystery Original Clique, two classic cuts from the vaults of influential Midlands label Network Records and a glassy-eyed slab of Bleep/deep house fusion from 100 Hz.