Bio Rhythm 3 (Re-Indulge)

It’s not normal to take 31 years to release a follow up album. But then Network was never a normal sort of record label, and often opted for the quirky rather than the quick buck. The logo was launched in 1990 and that year, along with a slew of startlingly good singles, created and issued two Bio Rhythm compilations, each of which showcased cutting edge USA techno rubbing shoulders alongside its’ sparse UK bleep counterpart.

At the time the words quality and dance music compilations were not phrases shared that much. Bio Rhythm 1 and it’s almost instant follow up Bio Rhythm 2 bucked the trend with groundbreaking exclusive tracks, iconic minimal artwork and surreal sleeve notes.

Three decades on Network Records return with a brand-new Bio Rhythm compilation. Buoyed by a reappraisal of the role of bleep techno in the uk dance music story and a growing acceptance that Network was one of British dance music’s most significant labels of the early 1990s. Network have stepped back into the spotlight with a collection of timeless “dance music with bleeps” that’s every bit as alluring as its predecessors.

Fittingly, much of the material comes from producers and remixers based in and around the Midlands, while there are also plenty of nods towards the label’s storied past scattered across the compilation. it begins with a brand-new re-edit of Neal Howard’s ‘Indulge’ – originally the first single to be released on Network – from Birmingham’s Discomendments and ends with a timely airing of the first compilation’s unofficial theme tune, C&M Connection’s Detroit-meets-Yorkshire classic ‘Bio Rhythms’.