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...