12/31/2023 0 Comments Matt anniss![]() Anniss forgoes an index for a pure chronographical time-line that carries the book through, mimicking the urgency of a dub-plate record – a desire to get the thing out there as soon as it is produced.” Anniss takes an occasional moment to stop and sample the air, such as on Snake Pass between Manchester and Sheffield (64) or at Park Hill flats for a brutalist memoir to accompany the concluding paragraphs. He has a point here, and he sets out to demolish myths, redress historical versions, timeframes and figures, and re-situate the northern origins of bleep… The pace is urgent, intense and breathless, with dot-to-dot detail of dance spaces, club names, tracks and dance moves. “There is an important rationale to the book, as Anniss argues for re-assessing the historical understanding of this scene within the wider complex chronology of dance music. Musique Journal, France, November 2020 (read the review – in French – here) “ story is not just a hyper-well-constructed suite of highlights told in great detail that makes dance nerds swoon ( which I am): it is above all a more than convincing proposal for an alternative history of British house and techno.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Lauren O’Neill, in ‘the Best Non-Fiction Books on British Music Culture’, Rolling Stone UK, February 2021 (read the article online here) Anniss researched this book for five years in order to claim the untold story of Britain’s dance music revolution for the unique time and place that generated it.” “Britain is an electronic music heavyweight – this is the place that invented jungle, dubstep, speed garage – and here, dance music journalist Matt Anniss traces the origins of all of this back to bleep techno, which began in Yorkshire in the 1980s. Includes a personal foreword by Optimo Music’s JD Twitch, an exhaustive index, hundreds of footnotes and an extensive chapter-by-chapter recommended listening list (the Bleepography), featuring details of scores of essential, rare and previously overlooked records. Now expanded to include more interviews, analysis and a brand-new afterword, Join The Future is one of the most revealing and significant books on dance music in years. It brings forth the untold stories of bleep’s pioneers and those who came in their wake, moving from mid-80s electro all-dayers and reggae soundsystem clashes in the North and Midlands, to the birth of breakbeat hardcore and jungle in London and the South East in the early ’90s.Īlong the way, you’ll find first-hand accounts of key clubs and raves, biographies of forgotten and overlooked production pioneers, stories of bleep outposts in Canada and the United States, and the inside story of the early years of one of electronic music’s most iconic labels, Warp Records. Yet another previously overlooked sound predated them all: bleep and bass, or bleep techno, the first distinctly British form of electronic dance music.Ī mixture of social, cultural, musical and oral history based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews, Join The Future tells the previously hidden history of ‘bleep’ for the first time. Since the dawn of the 1990s, Britain’s dancefloors have moved to a string of styles built around skeletal rhythms and heavy sub-bass, including breakbeat hardcore, jungle, drum & bass, dubstep, UK garage, grime and bassline. Named by Rolling Stone UK as one of the best books on British music culture, Join The Future puts forward a persuasive new argument about the origins of UK club culture’s long-running love affair with bass. Matt Anniss’s critically acclaimed history of UK dance music in the acid house era returns in updated and expanded form. You can find extended excerpts from Join the Future online now at The Quietus and Resident Advisor. An updated and expanded second edition of the book, featuring a new afterword chapter, additional analysis and updated chapters, was published in early 2023. It can also be found in book shops and selected record stores worldwide. Named by Rolling Stone UK as one of the best books on British music culture, It is available to purchase now direct from the publisher, Velocity Press. Join The Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music is a critically acclaimed book by journalist and author Matt Anniss, originally published in 2019. ![]()
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