Beatsystem is the name of British

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

ian Derek Pierce. Two of his singles charted on the UK Singles Chart in the early 1990s; a cover of

Lou Reed Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942October 27, 2013) was an American musician and songwriter. He was the guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades. Althoug ...

's " Walk on the Wild Side" which peaked at No. 63 in March 1990 and "To a Brighter Day (O' Happy Day)" at No. 70 in September 1993. In the mid-1990s, his work shifted from

electronic dance Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as dance music or club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and List of electronic dance music festivals, festivals. It is generally ...

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experimental An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs whe ...

ambient music Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes Musical tone, tone and atmosphere over traditional Musical form, musical structure or rhythm. Often "peaceful" sounding and lacking Musical composition, composition, beat, and/or structured melod ...

, releasing his debut album ''2297'' on the Nottingham-based ambient label Em:t Records.

Discography

Albums

*''Beatsystem 2297'' (1997), Em:t *''The Sound of Two Eskimos Kissing'' (2011), Entropy Records

Singles

*"Don't Hold Back on Love" (1990),

4th & Broadway 4th & B'way Records (pronounced and spelled out completely as Fourth and Broadway Records in the UK) is a US-based subsidiary of Island Records that specialised in street-oriented music such as hip hop. Established in 1984, it was the flagship ...

*" Walk on the Wild Side" (1990), 4th & Broadway - UK #63 *"To a Brighter Day (O' Happy Day)" (1993),

FFRR FFRR Records (sometimes credited as Full Frequency Range Recordings) is a dance music label founded as a subsidiary of London Records in 1986, with A&R run by the British DJ Pete Tong. Originally a part of London Records' label roster, FFRR ...

- UK #70

References

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* English electronic musicians English record producers English male songwriters British ambient musicians FFRR Records artists {{UK-electronic-musician-stub