Recording
Track With No Name
Forgemasters
Independently chosen for3 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.
- Released
- 1989
- Label
- Warp
- On
- Bleep Techno, The Eighties, and Warp
- Updated
- 2026-08-31
Ranked No. 2 in Bleep Techno
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.
Picked by The Eighties
Funded by an enterprise grant, named after a steelworks, released by a Sheffield record shop. The decade ends with a public body accidentally paying for the first Warp single, which is as good a summary of the whole argument as exists.
Picked by Warp
Catalogue number one, funded by a government enterprise grant, made by people who worked in the shop. Everything else here exists because this sold well enough locally to pay for the next one.