Before it meant IDM, Warp Records meant bleep and bass: how Sheffield and West Yorkshire producers built British bass music out of steel-city sub-bass and Detroit futurism.
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 […]
