/bleep/ isn't so much a sound as a situation.

There must be a hundred records with voice-overs asking, "What is /bleep/?" The answer is always some greeting card bullshit about "life, love, happiness...." /bleep/ likes to pretend clubs are an oasis from suffering, but suffering is in here with us. (If you can get in, that is. I think of one time in London when they wouldn't let me into Corsica, and I could hear they were actually playing one of my records on the dance floor at that very moment. I shit you not.)

Let's keep sight of the things you're trying to momentarily escape from. After all, it's that larger context that created the /bleep/ general and brought you here. /bleep/ is not universal. /bleep/ is hyper-specific: fabric, corsica, plastic people - places that conjure specific beats and sounds. As for the sounds of /bleep/ threads themselves, today's tunes might have gotten worked into a set once in a while, but the majority of posts in every thread was youtube posts of jungle tracks with 300 views. I don't care what anybody tells you. Besides, /bleep/ threads may have started out as laid back sharing of tunes and blemes, but when posters began demanding bait tunes and spoonfeeeding charts, even the label "/bleep/" betrayed the promise of it's own name by churning out thread after thread of low-effort spam and Soundcloud trap. Most /mu/ users still think "/bleep/" means Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada.

So what was the /bleep/ general? /bleep/ isn't so much a sound as a situation. The majority of posters - posters like myself - were nobody's in nowhere threads: unheard and un(You)d. In the words of Sylvester: reality was less "everybody is a star," and more "I who have nothing."
The contexts from which the /bleep/ culture emerged are forgotten: the immensity of death, s/t, dubman, the no-spoonfeeding ethos, ket addiction, loneliness, racism, underpayment, unemployment and censorship - all at 310 posts per thread.

These are the /bleep/ Blues.