“We just carried that on because we wanted more sounds like that.”īut dancers at Niche didn’t just want the pitched-up grooves and big basslines of speed garage. “Double 99’s ‘Ripgroove’ had a massive influence on the scene up North,” Niche regular turned producer Big Ang explained on NTS’ 2021 Evolution Of Garage special. Crucially, the team of resident DJs - and, it should be noted, other local DJs who fed into the development of bassline house, such as Naughty Nick - were not shy of dropping speed garage tunes in their sets, with a bootleg remix of Double 99’s ‘Ripgroove’, featuring Tina Moore’s belting vocal from ‘Never Gonna Let You Go’ over the top, being a Niche favourite. Niche - which had opened in 1992 under the ownership of a businessman known as ‘the Godfather of Sheffield’, Steve Baxendale - was the most renowned of these after-hours venues, initially with a house-heavy playlist that attracted the most energetic and party-hearty dancers. Licensing laws at the time dictated that most clubs had to shut at 2am, with only a handful of venues in larger cities being awarded 24-hour licences - and even then, they couldn’t sell alcohol. In the mid 1990s, Yorkshire boasted some of the most popular and well-known club brands in the UK at the time, including Love To Be, Hard Times, Back To Basics, Gatecrasher and Up Yer Ronson. To understand the emergence of bassline, we need to travel back further in time than the release of ‘California Dreaming’. It should be viewed as an important step in the hardcore continuum that’s as important as dubstep or grime.” Because of that, it wasn’t given credit for being as arresting, innovative and sonically brutal as it is.
“I think because it was 4/4 and fast, many people used to lump bassline in with things like happy hardcore, donk and scouse house. “The attitude towards it has definitely changed since I started DJing,” says Local Action/2 B Real artist and NTS resident Finn. Over the years and decades that followed, bassline’s popularity would swell in the Midlands and, eventually, elsewhere across the UK, all the while evolving to become an integral part of wider UK dance music culture. Within 12 months of Scott and Collings’ dub appearing in stores, bassline house - or as it was sometimes called in honour of the club that spawned it, ‘Niche music’, or simply ‘Niche’ - had spread to other after-hours venues in the North. It had been created with the dancefloor of one club in mind: Niche, on Sidney Street in Sheffield an infamous after-hours spot that boasted a committed, energetic and up-for-it crowd. The dub, crafted by a DJ called Shaun Banger Scott and his production partner Jonathan Collings, was weightier and more driving, peppered with Korg M-1 organ stabs and a warped and wild, speed garage style bassline. It featured, on its flipside, a dub that would prove hugely inspirational to DJs and dancers in the North of England.
Created by a Sheffield-based trio of DJs and producers called High Jinx a year before its release in 1997, ‘California Dreaming’ was a bouncy, organ-heavy house cover of The Mamas & The Papas song of the same name. Read more lives and keep our modern world working.A quarter of a century ago, a record slipped out on Rumour Records that would change the course of UK dance music history.
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