Monday, November 29, 2004  3:13 am 

What do you mean it’s not the 80’s ?

Eon is usually Ian Beta (who used to do stuff for Rhythm King Records), J Saul Kane of Depth Charge and some other luminaries. An Idiot’s Guide to Dreaming have some Eon mp3s for you, and a nice little story too

In this case they blow the whole cool thing off using the name Ignition with Marcus J Knight, Ali Love, Simom Bartholomew and Stephanie Newman for a release on Kingsize records.

The sleeve sums up this record perfectly.

One remix is by Chicken Lips which takes all the retro-originality (wow that is a new old concept) away and makes it very contemporary (i don’t like it), and the other is called the dance city mix, which is cool. This is the original and the best ocean drive mix.

Ignition - Love is War

Anyone who likes Chromeo or Playgroup Number 1 will love it.

I feel like Ed Dmx (or for the amazing scratching version see Spoilt Victorian Child) dropped every single 1980s cliche in his book of tricks on one song, got Avenue D and Opti-Grab do the rap then got Les Rhythm Digital to produce it. It’s even got a hair metal guitar attack like old electro tracks used to (apparently played by Simon Bartholomew from the Brand New Heavies ????? what the fuck is that about? Still, it sounds like Eddie, and thats ok).

Pete Tong?? The press release says a cross between Motley Crue meets Chic, I wouldn’t go that far. Try it between Shannon Let the Music Play and Colonel Abrams Trapped and…

Bomb the Bass - Don’t Make Me Wait

This is so far removed from an underground classic is hurts. Maybe Beat Dis or the Afrika Bambaataa/Assault On Precinct 13 inspired Megablast have some kinda cool, but this still body rocks our world.

Tim Simenon was an ace DJ trying to program beats like Public Enemy and NWA in his bedroom, and djing on the proto acid house London scene. Lauraine was singing her little heart out like the soul diva she luckily wasn’t bless her heart.

They did dead naughty things in the video like spray paint and skate board and wear baseball caps at funny angles and everything, so as a kid I was well sold.

This is scruffy dance music at its overenthusiastic amateur best, which is no insult. I’d rather have a rough diamond than a polished turd any day. I guess it was some of the first dance music people got a chance to get in the charts along with label mates S’Express.

Excellent write up of the influence this uk sampling/dance/hip-hop act had on music at Discogs Bomb The Bass.

It all comes round, cos guess who the producer was on Enter the Dragon? Our old mate J Saul Kane(see top).

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