# The 6 Best Bleep Techno Tracks of All Time

Sheffield and Leeds, 1989: Detroit's sequenced tones stripped to a few sine bleeps and dropped over sub-bass borrowed from Jamaican sound systems. The first British techno that sounded like nowhere in America.

- **Origin:** Sheffield and Leeds, England, 1989
- **Tempo:** 118–135 BPM
- **Also known as:** bleep, bleep and bass, yorkshire bleep, warp
- **Tracks:** 6
- **Updated:** 2026-08-31
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/genre/bleep-techno/

## The list

### 1. [LFO](https://waxonia.com/artist/lfo/) — [LFO](https://waxonia.com/track/lfo--lfo/)

*1990 · Warp*

A test tone, a bassline and their own name spoken over it, and it reached number twelve in the national chart. Nothing else on the radio that year was remotely this austere.

Also on: [Warp](https://waxonia.com/theme/warp/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/LFO%20LFO) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=s-1Y2EqThyQ)

### 2. [Forgemasters](https://waxonia.com/artist/forgemasters/) — [Track With No Name](https://waxonia.com/track/forgemasters--track-with-no-name/)

*1989 · Warp*

Warp's first release, funded by an enterprise grant, named after a Sheffield steelworks. The label that later signed Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada starts exactly here.

Also on: [The Eighties](https://waxonia.com/theme/the-eighties/), [Warp](https://waxonia.com/theme/warp/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Forgemasters%20Track%20With%20No%20Name) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ys9e2m0LTs)

### 3. [Unique 3](https://waxonia.com/artist/unique-3/) — [The Theme](https://waxonia.com/track/unique-3--the-theme/)

*1989*

Bradford, and usually credited as the first bleep record. The bass is doing something no Detroit producer had asked a bassline to do.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Unique%203%20The%20Theme) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=hwyVNDIhxzM)

### 4. [Sweet Exorcist](https://waxonia.com/artist/sweet-exorcist/) — [Testone](https://waxonia.com/track/sweet-exorcist--testone/)

*1990 · Warp*

Richard H. Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire with DJ Parrot, making a record out of calibration tones. Sheffield's industrial past and its dance present in one object.

Also on: [Warp](https://waxonia.com/theme/warp/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Sweet%20Exorcist%20Testone) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ooD4plDsO60)

### 5. [Nightmares on Wax](https://waxonia.com/artist/nightmares-on-wax/) — [Dextrous](https://waxonia.com/track/nightmares-on-wax--dextrous/)

*1989 · Warp*

Leeds, and considerably warmer than its neighbours here. George Evelyn was already writing tunes while everyone else was still testing speakers.

Also on: [Twice Over](https://waxonia.com/theme/twice-over/), [Warp](https://waxonia.com/theme/warp/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Nightmares%20on%20Wax%20Dextrous) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YiTL_HptsiY)

### 6. [Tricky Disco](https://waxonia.com/artist/tricky-disco/) — [Tricky Disco](https://waxonia.com/track/tricky-disco--tricky-disco/)

*1990 · Warp*

Silly, insistent, and a top twenty hit. Bleep's brief pop moment, before the whole scene sped up into hardcore and left the tempo behind.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Tricky%20Disco%20Tricky%20Disco) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=XG6CTs6cPQ4)

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