Here you’ll find links to essential audio documents related to the Join The Future project, as well as others exploring similar sonic territory or in some way touching on the story told in Join The Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music. Scroll further down the page for links to DJ mixes and talks/discussions.

Join The Future on Noods Radio 

Join The Future has been a fixture on Noods Radio since 2020. After broadcasting a six-hour “takeover” on a Sunday afternoon, we were given a bi-monthly residency in spring of 2021. From series two (2022) onwards, the show has been broadcast monthly. Many of the shows have a specific focus or theme, with audio documentaries, extended interviews and label showcases a speciality. Below you’ll find a list of shows (plus the takeover), arranged by newest to oldest. Click on the links to be taken to a post about each show with embedded ‘listen back’ links and more info. Click on a series link header to access a playlist of shows from that season on Soundcloud. You can also find all of the shows archived via the Join The Future residents page on the Noods website.

Series 5 (2025)

Episode 1: Join The Future 5th Anniversary Mix-Up (originally transmitted 22nd January 2025)

Series 4 (2024)

Episode 9: Mark Archer in conversation (originally transmitted 27 November 2024)
Episode 8: NY & NJ house special (originally transmitted 25 September 2024)
Episode 7: We Out Here special (originally transmitted 28 August 2024)
Episode 6 (originally transmitted 24 July 2024)
Episode 5 (originally transmitted 22 May 2024)
Episode 4: Lila Hart in the mix (originally transmitted 24 April 2024)
Episode 3: Spring Selections (originally transmitted 27 March 2024)
Episode 2: with Tara Hill (CTM festival review) (originally transmitted 29 February 2024)
Episode 1 (originally transmitted 24 January 2024)

Series 3 (2023, 8 x 1 hour episodes)

Episode 8: Stream like you mean it – 20 years of best before: (originally transmitted 22 November 2023)
Episode 7 (originally transmitted 27th September 2023)
Episode 6: Party Lines – Ed Gillett in conversation (originally transmitted 23rd August 2023)
Episode 5: Books & Beats (originally transmitted 26th July 2023)
Episode 4: Richard Sen in conversation (originally transmitted 28th June 2023)
Episode 3: Break The Limits – Early Breakbeat Hardcore Revisited (originally transmitted 26th April 2023)
Episode 2: A Certain Ratio – Martin Moscrop in conversation (originally transmitted 22nd March 2023)
Episode 1: Mark Archer and Neil Rushton in conversation – recorded live at Cafe Artum, Birmingham, February 4th 2023 (originally transmitted 22nd February 2023)

Series 2 (2022, 10 x 1-hour episodes)

Episode 10: Aftermath – The Persistence of Myths and Misleading Narratives in Dance Music History (and What We Can Do About Them) (originally transmitted 25th November 2022)
Episode 9: Kerri Chandler in conversation (originally transmitted September 29th 2022)
Episode 8: Out of Space – UK rave culture past, present and future with Jim Ottewill (originally transmitted 24th August 2022)
Episode 7: French Connections with Martin James in conversation (originally transmitted 24th July 2022)
Episode 6: Ron Trent in Conversation (originally transmitted June 22nd 2022)
Episode 5: The Story of DiY Soundsystem with Harry Harrison (originally transmitted May 25th 2022)
Episode 4: ‘Serious Dances, Serious Dancers’ with Winston Hazel – recorded live at We Out Here 2021 (originally transmitted April 27th 2022)
Episode 3: A History of Bassline – Part 2: 2005-2022 (originally transmitted March 23rd 2022)
Episode 2: A History of Bassline – Part 1: 1996-2004 (originally transmitted February 23rd 2022)
Episode 1: Jordan GCZ in Conversation (originally transmitted January 25th 2022)

Series 1 (2021, 4 x 2-hour episodes)

December 2021 (Round-up of the year + selections from the Network Records catalogue)
October 2021 (Words & Music panel discussion; music books round-up; Richard H Kirk tribute)
June 2021: Versatile Records Special (celebrating 25 years of the label with founder Gilb’r, plus bonus web-only episode featuring a deeper dive into the label catalogue)
April 2021: Leeds Special (the story of Bleep in Leeds, featuring DJ Martin, Mark Iration, Homer Harriott and many more)

Join The Future – Noods Radio Takeover
A six-hour special, first broadcast on Noods Radio on Sunday 7th March 2020 and repeated on NYD 2022. Loosely based on Join The Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music, the takeover’s five episodes (3 x 60 mins, 2 x 90 mins) discuss the roots, origins, development and legacy of Bleep & Bass, and how the style fits into the UK bass continuum, via a mixture of scripted history/analysis, new interviews with artists including Peter Duggal (Demonik/Doggy) and Haider (Breaker Breaker), and DJ mixes from JD Twitch, Titia, West Norwood Cassette Library, CP Smith and Porter Brook. All five episodes are available to stream via our story dedicated to the event.

Other Radio Shows & Podcasts

Devil’s Work on SWU.FM
On March 12th 2024, Join The Future founder Matt Anniss sat in for Farrell on his monthly SWU.FM show Devil’s Work – find out more, listen and check out the track listing here.

Threads Radio: Velocity Press Takeover
On November 20, 2020, Velocity Press, publisher of Join The Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music, hosted a takeover of London-based, community-focussed radio station Threads. Authors of four different books were asked to record their own shows, focusing on the music and stories told in their titles. You can listen to Matt Anniss’ Join The Future show, via the Threads Mixcloud channel.

Dare To Believe: Join The Future Special
On 12th December 2019, just a few weeks after the book was published, Matt Anniss guested on the Dare To Believe show on Noods Radio. He joined host Nicko Smith in the Noods studio for a chat before mixing up some vintage Bleep cuts, unreleased tracks and his own fresh re-edits. Listen via Mixcloud.

Vibes From The TR13E: Join The Future Bleep & Bass Special
In September 2019 Matt Anniss dedicated an edition oft the Vibes From The TR13E show he hosts (and sometimes co-hosts) to Bleep & Bass. The show is a non-stop two-hour mix telling the story of Bleep from start to finish, overlaid with samples from interviews conducted during the book research process, and occasional mic chat from Matt. You can listen to it via the Noods Radio Mixcloud account.

DJ Mixes

Watching Morning (at Watching Trees)
A DJ mix inspired by the set I played on Sunday morning at Watching Trees 2024 – ambient, fourth world, dub, saucer-eyed downtempo grooves and chilled classics. Listen on Mixcloud here.

Bleep Mix #257: Matt Anniss
The Join The Future founder got in the mix to promote the 2023 expanded and updated edition of the book, joining the dots between bleep tracks old and new, early breakbeat hardcore, and other sub-heavy tracks made between the 90s and 2022. Listen via Soundcloud.

Made In Yorkshire (Recorded Live at the DC23 Afterparty, 20/10/23)
As well as presenting a paper on his research into rural rave culture in East Anglia, Join The Future founder Matt Anniss also DJ’d at the afterparty at Jabberwocky in Sheffield. This is the recording, direct from the mix, of a specially themed mix-up – a club-heating selection of sub-heavy dance music made in Yorkshire, by exiled Yorkshire artists, or released by Yorkshire-based labels. Click here for more information and both Mixcloud and Soundcloud links.

Join The Future: Mix 01
In the summer of 2018 Matt Anniss announced the Join The Future project with a mix that was later named one of FACT magazine’s September 2018 mixes of the month. It features mostly lesser-celebrated bleep and bass cuts, plus a swathe of his own special ‘Join The Future’ re-edits. You can find it on both Mixcloud and Soundcloud.

Join The Future: Mix 02
Originally recorded as an hour-long mix for George-Oscar Winstanley’s morning show on Bristol-based online station 1020 Radio, this sequel to the above mix contains both classic Bleep tracks and more recent tracks that share similar sonic traits. Like its’ predecessor, Join The Future: Mix 02 includes a number of Matt’s unreleased re-edits of Bleep cuts. Listen to it via Mixcloud

Join The Future: Mix 03
The return of the JTF mix series in 2025 saw Matt Anniss go down a dub disco/nu-disco/space disco/dub house/acid house/deep house wormhole, joining the dots between this project and his long-running Bedmo Disco partnership with Gareth Morgan AKA Awon DJ.

Talks & Discussions

Matt Anniss in conversation with Colin Steven
This podcast is a recording of the London launch of Join The Future, which took place at Rye Wax in Peckham back in November 2019. In it Anniss answers questions about the book and the story told in it, before playing clips of key bleep tunes and then answering queries from the audience. It’s available to stream on the Velocity Press Mixcloud page.

Storm From The East: The Roots and Rise of Rave Culture in East Anglia
Matt Anniss’s 2019 contribution to the Assembly House Trust in Norwich’s excellent Of & By Series of online talks, workshops and panel discussions. Hosted by Jonathan P. Watts, it features Matt chronicling the roots and rise of acid house and rave in East Anglia, with a particular focus on Norfolk and Suffolk, plus his theory on the key ingredients needed for dance music scenes to develop. Watch via the Assembly Online channel on YouTube.