Richard David James was born on 18 August 1971 in Limerick and raised in Cornwall. The birthday gets marked every year. The more useful anniversary is the second half of that sentence, because the label he ended up co-founding was not built out of a taste. It was built out of a postcode. A supply […]
On 6 July 1992, Warp Records released a compilation with a picture of a sleeping android on the cover. The robot is slumped in an armchair. Two record sleeves lie on the carpet beside it: Kraftwerk’s Autobahn and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. A third, Pioneers of the Hypnotic Groove, is Warp’s […]
