Search And Destroy: Warp Records

I own this! It's still in its tube. I should find a frame for it. Or maybe I should stick it on ebay. Or maybe somebody here should offer me a stupid price for it. :)

This comp is a bit bleh. It sounds very 1992, if that makes any sense. I don't listen to it much (even though I was thrilled to pick it up for five bucks at Amoeba in SF!)

Coco Steel and Lovebomb were great, but cruelly ignored since their album was released right in the wake of the AI series, not to mention that nobody looked to Warp for house music at the time. The Nightmares On Wax album suffered a similar fate.

Finnily enough I was also reminded of early St Etienne at times on that record. 'Feel It' is such a classy track.
-- the music mole (colinsbarro...), March 13th, 2004 9:46 PM. (colin s barrow)

KENNY LARKIN = even less impressive, frankly.

ELECKTROIDS = fan-fucking-tastic!! drexciya at their most spacy, dubby and microtextured. don't think neptune's lair or the work as shifted phases - think other people place or transllusion (the LP on supremat, not rephlex) - lush, r&b + freestyle influenced midtempo electro with tons of mad crazy detroit synthi fuckery. go to bleep.com and listen to "future tone" / "japanese electronics" / "silicon valley" / "midnight drive" ... tell them i told you

And just to clarify, in my previous comment I'm referring to NOW's "Smokers Delight" (1994), not their debut.

destroy: interpol, morris dancing

warp really trumped all those people who were like "can it get any more forgettable than drukqs?" by releasing like ten albums more forettable than drukqs.

it's time for everyone to admit that broadcast sucks now. they lost it long before "haha sound" came out.

I grabbed this off bleep thanks to some ilxor who described as something like "improbably spacious".

So, how's that new Clark album?

For some one who loves IDM tinged house a la Sutekh or Alex Smoke, is this something necessary to investigate?

Although the brief clips I heard just made it sound like really typical mid 00's IDM with more of a 4/4 emphasis. But I guess that's why you're the judge and I'm the law talking guy.

i listened to the last clark album (body riddle) loads when it was first released but have barely touched it since. why is this?

actually i think he really started to develop his own sound with body riddle. will probably return to it at some point...

the new one is supposed to me more dancefloor orientated apparently.

So I'm kind of after something with a similar sensibility to Flying Lotus at the moment, but, er, a bit smoother and less busy. I can almost hear it in my head. Does such a thing exist? Doesn't have to be on Warp, by the way.

Plone. For Beginner Piano. (though Press a key on some obscure label is even better).

The Chris Morris Jam CD and the incidental music.

Surely late Warp deserves some props for Battles - Atlas?

BTW, seen the video for Parisian Goldfish, speaking of Parisian Lotus? I didn't know whether to smile or be appalled. :)

oops Parisian Goldfish by Flying Lotus...

Plone sounds pretty nice, cheers Sven.

love that plone album. recently got hold of the unreleased followup but haven't spent a lot of time with it yet. plone dude is now mike in mono, peddling a similar if slightly more spritely line in poppy electronica

Plone were lovely and very, very, underrated but heard nothing more afterwards, so must check out mike in mono stuff, thanks for the tip jonty.

Been years since I even heard of Plone, will try digging up some of that old stuff. Remember liking it back then.

The first single, Press a Key, is just gorgeous.

Warp is doing their own song search right now with this Warp20 compilation and website. Has anyone else voted/contributed?

yeah i voted:

AFX - Laughable Butane Bob
Link - Amazon Amenity (Chameleon Mix)
Squarepusher - Journey To Reedham
Seefeel - Spangle
LFO - Psycodelik
Boards Of Canada - Orange Romeda
Broadcast - Dave's Dream
Anti-Pop Consortium - Ghostlawns
Luke Vibert - Synthax
Sabres Of Paradise - Wilmot

altho probably pointless to vote for obscurer tracks by the bigger artists if you want them to make it onto the compilation

i voted, can't remember what for, probably only for an ae track anyway. what i wanna know is when are this bitches gonna get more stuff on spotify

i voted, can't remember what for

Me too.

Given I used to work for them I have paid surprisingly little interest to them in years. I should go and vote though.

Man, the current chart is full of Grizzly Bear and Flying Lotus. There was me thinking I should think really hard and vote for something a little less obvious than "Eutow" or "Tricky Disco" or whatever, but looks like us old 90s fogeys got to represent.

(says someone who's also going to vote for like Brothomstates and maybe V.L.A.D. and all that other turn-of-century stuff that made the real 90s heads disown Warp and don't-call-it-IDM forever)

vote the other people place!

Voted for these:

Red Snapper - Crusoe Takes a Trip
Nightmares on Wax - Aftermath
Black Dog - Chase the Manhattan
Two Lone Swordsmen - Sticky
LFO - Tied Up (Sweep Mix)
Jake Slazenger - Nautilus
Boards of Canada - Telephasic Workshop
DJ Mink - Hey! Hey! Can U Relate?
Mike Ink - Paroles (Mike Ink Remix 96)
F.U.S.E. - F.U.

one hundred pounds!

http://warp.net/records/warp20/warp20-box-set

buy -> rip -> ebay?

Yeah, but there's a danger it'll be too pretty to sell and you won't be able to part with it.

buy -> develop star-trek replicator -> replicate -> ebay

one hundred pounds works as a price tag because warp fans are exactly the sort of bojos who go for box sets with fancy artwork etc.

I dunno what bojos are, but I do like sound of that word.

Fucking bojos.

i don't know why i typed it but it's from Back to the Future 2.

Okay, that word sucks.

top 10 picked by the crowd looking decent:

1 Windowlicker Aphex Twin
2 Roygbiv Boards of Canada
3 My Red Hot Car Squarepusher
4 Atlas Battles
5 LFO (Leeds Warehouse ... LFO
6 Eyen Plaid
7 I Love Acid Luke Vibert
8 Gantz Graf Autechre
9 I Wanna Be Your STD Jimmy Edgar
10 Herzog Clark

i fail to understand the logic that goes "sales are falling year over year so let's design and market ever more expensive and exclusive goods"

I know they still release some interesting stuff every now and then, but I already thought the Warp 10 3x2 compilations were like, let's look back at the good old days that ended about four years ago (then).

AI reissue?

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— Warp Records (@WarpRecords) October 29, 2022

ok fine cool i guess, but where’s the early bleep reissues? black dog productions? sabres and two lone swordsmen?

by early bleep i mean nightmares on wax first album, sweet exorcist singles and album, forgemasters, dj mink, tuff little unit and tricky disco singles, tequila slammers comp … coco steel and lovebomb album not too hard to find yet but that would also be cool!

i am not too hopeful for black dog reissues because i know the plaid dudes hate the other dude, but someone should really try to make that happen. i recently grabbed a copy of the “trainer” comp and man that’s a garbage pressing, even by 90s uk idm standards

weatherall i suppose must not have had his estate in order, i would think reissues would be a no-brainer!

warp 10+2 >>>>> AI

agreed but only one or two >s

Warp 10+2 is great yeah

i know the plaid dudes hate the other dude

did you see the tweets where tBD dude said "i don't live in the past, i'm not gonna play Bytes live, ask the Plaid guys, those losers will do it" and one of the Plaid guys responded "yeah it would be pretty messed up for you to play our music"

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

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