Search And Destroy: Warp Records

yes, i’ve long considered grabbing warp 10+2 4LP, there are reasonably priced copies out there (as opposed to the black dog and sabres albums) but i have warp 10+1 4LP and generally do not play it due to similar pressing issues, so not too excited by the prospect

discogs breaks down pretty well who did what on bytes! ken downie gets a ton of shit for acting like a massive ass (deserved imo) and his albums on dust science etc aren’t great. honestly if it was late 90s and my bandmate wouldn’t shut up about william burroughs cut ups and machine elves and reality hacking bla bla bla i’d probably bail too, he seems pretty unchill

on the other hand, iao “mongol hordes” is neatly tied with “olivine” and “object orient” for the best track on bytes, so i’d like to see some reconciliation (or at least a complete reissue)

i think i like “spanners” best though! imo their weirdest album and also the one where all the various threads mesh together best

sometimes i assume all the tracks w sampled breaks (like “chase the manhattan”, “raxmus”) or aggressive arpeggios (“utopian dream”, “chesh”) are downie (since that was his style on “mongol hordes” and “carcares et novum”)

similarly i assign the stuff with weird spiraling latin melodies with pinging mallet sound fx (like “barbola work” and “frisbee skip”) to plaid.

maybe an overly simplistic schema

tBD dude is awful. incredible they were ever able to work together at all. the pre-warp 12"s are some of my favourite recors of the era and i always assume the tracks i love were made by the other two.

i think i like “spanners” best though!

few arguments to be made against an album that has Chesh on it

I took the kids roller skating today and there was a 10 year old there with a WARP Records hat on. what the fuck

i find strange comfort in still receiving warpbot updates