Album · Renegade Soundwave
Soundclash by Renegade Soundwave
Soundclash is an album by Renegade Soundwave, released in 1989. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Biting My Nails”, on 2 lists with a best position of #50.
Soundclash, the debut album from London's Renegade Soundwave, came out on Mute Records and sounds like a pirate station jammed across three frequencies at once. Gary Asquith, Danny Briottet and Karl Bonnie co-produced it with Flood and pieced it together over several years out of breakbeats, tape loops, prowling basslines and samples snatched from all over the map, with hip hop, rock and dub all feeding the machine.
The words go after social issues, but from unusual angles rather than from a soapbox. "Probably a Robbery" gave them a UK top 40 hit and "Biting My Nails" filled the dancefloors. The album itself only crept to number 74 on the UK chart, the one time they charted with an LP, but its standing has grown ever since: the Chemical Brothers and Leftfield are among the electronic acts that took notes. A remix set, In Dub, followed the same year.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Soundclash on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Biting My Nails | 2 | #50 | – | 1990–1991 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.