As a Warwick University student in the late eighties/early nineties I spent most weekends hitching to Sheffield to buy records from the Warp shop and then dancing to them at the Palais nightclub the same evening. Secondly, I know much less about the middle than the beginning and the end: my love of Warp goes right back to the start with the Forgemasters, Sweet Exorcist and Nightmares on Wax. For a start, I’m biased – my Warp is a label of electronic “listening music” for “long journeys, quiet nights and club drowsy dawns”, so you won’t find critics’ favourites like Jamie Lidell’s Multiply or Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest in this list (unlike others). Who better then to give you the definitive guide to the 20 greatest Warp LPs. A constant love during our friendship has been the music of Warp records. First drawn to music by The Smiths, he caught the first wave of acid house before discovering drum n bass, jazz and electronica, finding time along the way to be the bass player in Creation indie 'almost legends' Adorable. ![]() In the fifteen years I've known him he's been a constant inspiration in the world of musical discovery.
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