Bug Powder Dust

One-man electronica act Bomb the Bass, also known as Tim Simenon, helped to popularise the idea of the DJ as a bona fide artist, with his run of innovative dance singles in the late 1980s and early 1990s, giving rise to what will eventually be known as DJ culture. Simenon also helped to develop what would subsequently become the trip-hop genre with 1991's 'Unknown Territory' album, which introduced more textural qualities to the electronica scene of the time. However, it is with 1994's 'Clear' album that he really established his credentials as a sound stylist of substance. 'Clear' still constitutes an excellent example of the progressive directions electronica is capable of in the hands of the right man, being a multi-faceted work that bristles with all manner of cabalistic sub-genres, running a triumphant gamut from ferocious industrial pop and sample-based hip-hop to dark-hued, earth-shaking dub and rave-inspired techno. Check out one of the bona fide highlights from 'Clear', the remarkable, propulsive 'Bug Powder Dust', featuring notorious performance artist Justin Warfield on guest vocals. This freeform advocation of recreational drug usage, laden with numerous references to William Burroughs's 'Naked Lunch', is wrapped up in a wildly oscillating, full-fledged, mutated-electronic thrash-metal jacket, and backed by a hallucinatory, hazy, travelogue-themed video.