Bleep Techno
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
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Number 2: 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, Warp
Number 4: 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
Number 5: 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, Warp
Number 6: 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.