In July 1992 Warp put an android in an armchair and called it electronic listening music. The sleeve was an instruction, the title was a joke, and IDM never recovered from either.
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 […]
