You wait 14 years for a Bomb the Bass album…. and within a year, there’s another one. After spending most of the last twenty years working with the likes of Depeche Mode and David Arnold, the genius that is Tim Simeon finally returned with last year’s “Future Chaos”, an album that left
people who had written him off jibbering and drooling with it’s mix of “little beat” and stunning guest vocals.
Back To Light is an altogether more aggressive affair – beats, tempo and some amazing vocal lines, it feels like the “other” album Tim had to make to get whatever it is out of his system. Fans of the last one will love it, but there’s also room for some new converts here too. Great - but still not as great as his 2001 EP “Clear Cut”.
The album came together quickly. While the shrink-wrapping still cooling on copies of Future Chaos, Simenon was already sketching out tracks for a new album, and in late 2008 he headed into a São Paulo studio to work with a new collaborator: Gui Boratto, Brazil's master craftsman of deep, melodic techno, known for his records on Kompakt and Kompakt Pop, as well as a thrilling remix of Bomb the Bass' own "Black River."