I was listening to a community access show callled ROTT on Radio Sheffield
back in the autumn of '89 - they played Forgemasters' 'Track With No Name'
and announced that it was from "a new Sheffield label called Warp". A top
tune, no doubt, thought I didn't buy it there and then.
A few months later I read a review of a tune called 'Testone' by Sweet
Exorcist, so popped into a dance music store in Sheffield and picked it up.
The shop, previously called FON Records, was now called WARP. As soon as I
got it home, I realised I'd already heard the track some time ago, played
out at a Sheffield club called Cuba, and those distinctive test tone bleeps
had sent the whole place absolutely nuts.
The next few months were incredible, as Warp seemed able to storm the UK Top
40 at will. 'LFO' and 'Tricky Disco' on Top Of The Pops?? It seems
incredible, but it happened during that mad summer of 1990.
Hanging out at the Warp Shop became something of a favourite pastime - if
you stayed long enough, you'd see Rob and Steve, the LFO guys, Nightmares On
Wax, Richard H. Kirk and others disappearing up the back stairs. Having been
hanging around the fringes of the label back in those days, the heights that
Warp has since reached astound me, and make me very happy too.
Reading the posts from you all, from the US, Europe, Australia and right
across the world, this label has had and continues to have a stupendous
influence. Without a doubt, Warp is Sheffield's greatest export.
My thoughts go out to Rob's family, Steve and the Warp crew, and all his
friends.
Damon.
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