Back in the late 90s Andy C, Ant Miles and Shimon joined forces to become Ram Trilogy, a Hornchurch juggernaut ready to take on all comers. 'No Reality' appeared on the first release in their original three part (you see what they did there) "Chapters" series which saw a big leap forward in the Ram Records sound.
It has a short mostly beatless intro featuring rolls of thunder, sci-fi sounding synths and an incredible morphing bassline. A male voice declares "there is still no such reality as something..." before been cut off by a repeated clacking sound. This was sampled from The Orb's 'Majestic', who in turn had sampled it from multi-media collage group The Tape-beatles 'Music With Sound' and possibly originated from a self improvement tape or similar. I think the samples goes on to say "for nothing" (it appears at 15:34 in the Tape-beatles clip, but is also used in full slightly earlier at 15:14 underneath other voices).
As the sample fades out a brief yet brilliantly produced drum build-up gives a sense of lift before the drop, the sort of technical flair that would characterise Ram Trilogy's tracks. The main drums are based around the 'Life Could' break which gives the track an off-kilter feel and there is a great section about two thirds of the way through where the bassline is manipulated to give it a stuttered effect which always blows my mind. The 'Chapters' series included several other classic tracks and I will be featuring these in future posts.
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