Beatsystem is the name of British

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroa ...

ian Derek Pierce. Two of his singles charted on the

UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...

in the early 1990s; a cover of Lou Reed'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/ house to

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ambient music, 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 flagsh ...

*" 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 previously run and founded by English DJ Pete Tong. Originally the dance music label of London Records, FFRR is currently a sublabel of Parlophon ...

- UK #70

References

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* English electronic musicians English record producers English songwriters Ambient musicians FFRR Records artists {{UK-electronic-musician-stub