But their most obvious immediate effect was a kind of rhythmic shift: in the wake of their initial success, you suddenly couldn’t move for indie bands who wanted to make their audiences dance. That was Mani’s musical raison d’être. “It’s what the bass and drums are for, aren’t they?” he once averred. “That’s what they’re for.”
There’s a bit on Primal Scream’s live version of Screamadelica, in “Loaded”. Mani’s playing bass for them by this time. And the whole thing simply does swing – as a result of his bass playing – in a way that the recorded version just doesn’t.