Warp Records - off topic


Last month I looked at Ninja Tunes and Kompakt Records and this month another dance label is in the spotlight, Warp records.

Warp were founded in Sheffield in 1989 by Steve Becket and Rob Mitchell who worked together at the FON record store. They were joined in their venture by producer Robert Gordon, who produced their first record. The first release was called 'Track with no name' and was funded by the Enterprise Allowance Scheme and sold out of the back of a car. The second release by the now internationally famous Nightmares on Wax was called 'Dextrous' and sold 30,000 copies despite a complete lack of promotion.

Warp records were now becoming well known on the dance music theme and their fifth release LFO's eponymously titled single sold 130,000 copies and resched number 5 in the UK charts.

In 1992 several more acts from the genre that is sometimes called 'Intelligent techno' were added to the label icluding Aphex Twin, Black Dog and Autechre.

They were soon followed by more varied dance acts such as Sabres of Paradise, Red Snapper and Antipop Consortium.

In 2000 Warp moved to London, as did its store Warpmart.

In 2004 Warp opened their download record store, Bleepand they also released a video named Warp Vision.

Warp have continued to release and produce music from a variety of genres, although they are still most famous for 'Intelligent Techno' with 3 great albums being released by Clark, Autechre and Squarepusher this year. However, they have been joined by a number of acts with different styles including the esoteric indie sounds of Battles, !!! and Grizzly Bear to the indie rock of Maximo Park and the post rock of 65daysofstatic.
Here's the video for Aphex Twin's classic On from the early days.


Grizzly Bear's Knife


Squarepusher - My Red Hot Car


Warp's Spring 2008 sampler:
1. Autechre - Altbizz
2. Clark - For Wolves Crew
3. Jamie Liddel - Little Bit of Feel Good
4. Born Ruffians - Hummingbird
5. Leila - Mettle
6. Flying Lotus - Gangbang
7. Harmonic 313 - Call to Arms
8. Pivot - In the Blood
9. Battles- Atlas
10. Grizzly Bear - Deep Blue Sea
11. !!! - Yandus
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