Today's compilation:
Warp10+2 Classics 89-92 1999 Bleep Techno / Techno / House / Ambient Techno
A vital look back at the first few years of the legendary Warp Records, the world's premier label for electronic music that's weird, but not too weird:
And speaking of industrial music, as Sheffield is the city from which legendary group Cabaret Voltaire hails, it kind of makes perfect sense that Warp would then become the label to proliferate noise-infused dance music, and that one of the Cabs' own members, Richard H. Kirk, would be on the label too, making up half of the duo of Sweet Exorcist. Here, SE provide the clearest example of a very early IDM track—something that's not four-on-the-floor techno or bleep techno, but sort of branches off from them—where all different kinds of noises are jointed together into one highly intriguing collage of rhythm and melody, on "Clonk (Freebass)," which also includes sampled wordless male vocals to add more percussion too.
Key highlight:
Sweet Exorcist - "Clonk (Freebass)"
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