Recording
Dextrous
Nightmares on Wax
Independently chosen for3 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.
- Released
- 1989
- Label
- Warp
- On
- Bleep Techno, Twice Over, and Warp
- Updated
- 2026-08-31
Ranked No. 5 in Bleep Techno
Leeds, and considerably warmer than its neighbours here. George Evelyn was already writing tunes while everyone else was still testing speakers.
Picked by Twice Over
Two teenagers in Leeds with a sampler, making one of the records that established what a Warp release sounded like before anyone knew that was a category. The narrowest and hardest of the three entries here.
Picked by Warp
The bass frequency as the entire point of a record, which is what "bleep" meant before anyone had a word for it. It established that the label's taste was a taste and not just a postcode.