Bomb The Bass, the studio project of Tim Simenon, shot straight into the singles chart in early 1988 with their sample-heavy debut single Beat Dis.

This song is a little piece of music history. Not so much for the song itself (though there’s an argument for that too) but for the cover of the single.

Its smiley logo, lifted from Alan Moore’s Watchmen comics, was what sparked the ubiquitous use of the smiley as the symbol of Acid House.

As with the graphics, the song borrows freely from 72 different songs and snatches of dialogue.

If you’re sharp-eared enough, you can hear bits of James Brown, Public Enemy, Aretha Franklin, Prince and Ennio Morricone, and spoken word samples of Jayne Mansfield and TV series like Dragnet and Thunderbirds.

Beat Dis first appeared in 1987 on Into The Dragon, the first album by Tim Simenon’s studio production group Bomb The Bass (originally called Rhythm King All Stars) and was released as a single early the following year on Simenon’s own Mister-Ron label.

It shot straight into the singles chart at No.5 and peaked at No.2, its success was no doubt helped by the age-old trick of appearing on TOTP with a pretty girl in a miniskirt.

Adele Nozedar of Hull synth-pop group Indians In Moscow went on to run a major record company and write books on her passion for foraging including The Hedgerow Handbook and Mushroom Miscellany.