Squarepusher - Beep Street

Name: Squarepusher - Beep Street
Uploaded: 1997-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released 28 April 1997 on Warp Records (WARP50) as the second track on Hard Normal Daddy — Squarepusher's debut Warp album and a landmark in the drill 'n' bass subgenre. The album was championed by NME and The Wire as one of the best of 1997, and later by Pitchfork as one of the greatest IDM albums of all time. The track samples James…

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Released 28 April 1997 on Warp Records (WARP50) as the second track on Hard Normal Daddy — Squarepusher's debut Warp album and a landmark in the drill 'n' bass subgenre. The album was championed by NME and The Wire as one of the best of 1997, and later by Pitchfork as one of the greatest IDM albums of all time. The track samples James Brown's 'Soul Pride' and runs at 161 BPM — a tempo emblematic of Squarepusher's…

Why it matters

Beep Street is widely cited as a highlight of the drill 'n' bass canon — a micro-genre that pushed drum 'n' bass BPMs and programming complexity beyond dance-floor functionality into avant-garde territory. The track's video form — static, dark, durational — is a significant artifact of how Warp…

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