As far as I’m concerned, this remains one of the greatest rap tracks ever recorded: Justin Warfield’s hilarious, pop-culture-reference filled rap (“Top of the Pops, like the Lulu show/I take a walk on Abbey Road/With my shoes off, so”) in a track with such an insanely unforgiving bass sample (from this free jazz song, which makes me think of little as much as the jingles that played between sketches on Sesame Street), topped with the William S. Burroughs inspired title? Seriously, how anyone could resist, I have no idea.
After this song, both Warfield and Bomb The Bass kind of disappeared, as if their jobs were done. The BTB album that followed this track, Clear, was a great one with all manner of guests (including novelist Will Self) and a sound that sounded like dirtier trip-hop, but the next album didn’t appear for another thirteen years, and with a significantly different sound. Warfield, too, put out an album that followed this (with early remixed by David Holmes, of all people) before disappearing from view and reappearing as the lead singer of She Wants Revenge, sounding like this:
Let’s just say that “Bug Powder Dust” may have broken everyone involved, shall we?