Warp 10: Influences, Classics, Remixes
Warp 10 is a series of compilation albums issued by Warp Records in 1999 to celebrate the label's tenth anniversary. The collection spans three double CD/quadruple vinyl sets, which can be purchased individually. Each volume in the set highlights different phases of electronic music, including influential tracks not originally released by Warp (licensed specifically for this collection), but which helped to shape the artists and musicians who eventually appeared on the label, as well as tracks that influenced the overall sound of the label itself.
- Warp 10+1: Influences (WARP LP/CD 67) contains twenty-two early acid house and techno tracks. Many of these songs are today considered to be the classics of these genres (when they were in their infancy). A number of the tracks had never been available on compact disc before this collection, and seven of the twenty-two were mastered directly from 12 inch vinyl (from such record labels as Cutting, Trax, Fourth Floor, KMS, Metroplex, 10, Cause N' Effect, Transmat, Plezure, and Bassic). Spanning the years 1986 through 1990, the songs represented here were still very much an underground sensation in the United States, however a handful of these songs charted well on the UK singles chart and helped to usher in the acid house craze that swept across Europe in the late 1980s.
- Warp 10+2: Classics 89–92 (WARP LP/CD 68) features eighteen full-length "classic" versions and remixes taken directly from the vaults of Warp Records. Tracks appearing here were produced between the years of 1989 and 1992. As with Warp 10+1, many of these tracks appeared previously only on 12 inch vinyl or now out-of-print compilations and EPs.
- Warp 10+3: Remixes (WARP LP/CD 69) contains twenty-six remixes (of which twenty-five are exclusive to this collection) of tracks taken from Warp Records' back catalog. Although all of the original recordings were released by Warp, the remixers are not necessarily Warp Records artists. The original songs span from the years 1990 through 1998.
| Warp 10: Influences, Classics, Remixes | |
|---|---|
| Compilation album by Various Artists | |
| Released | 1999 |
| Recorded | 1986-1998 |
| Genre | Electronic, Techno, House music, IDM |
| Label | Warp Records |
| Producer | Various |
The album art is the Roger Stevens Building, a lecture hall for the University of Leeds built in the 1970s, and noted for its bizarre brutalist architecture. The quadruple vinyl editions of Influences and Classics 89–92 come in gatefold sleeves, while that of Remixes is packaged as four separate LPs in sleeves inside a hard box.
In a 2013 article for Fact Magazine, Simon Reynolds noted that Warp 10+2: Classics 89–92 remains one of the only compilations that covers the "bleep techno" of the early 1990s: "[D]espite its time-defying excellence, bleep is poorly served in terms of compilations: basically, there's Warp's Classics double CD, plus out-of-print comps from the original era."[1]
Warp 10+1: Influences track listing
Disc 1
| Artist | Title | Orig. Year | Orig. Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitro Deluxe | "Let's Get Brutal" | 1986 | Cutting Records |
| Mr. Fingers | "Can U Feel It" | 1986 | Trax Records |
| Master C&J | "Dub Love" | 1986 | Trax Records |
| Adonis | "No Way Back" | 1986 | Trax Records |
| Fallout | "Morning After" (Sunrise mix) | 1987 | Fourth Floor Records |
| Reese & Santonio | "The Sound" (Smooth mix) | 1987 | KMS Records |
| Model 500 | "Off To Battle" | 1987 | Metroplex Records |
| Steve Poindexter | "Computer Madness" | 1987 | Muzique Records |
| Rhythim Is Rhythim | "Nude Photo" | 1987 | Transmat |
| Da Posse | "It's My Life" (Aluh mix) | 1988 | Trax Records |
| Phuture | "Acid Tracks" | 1988 | Trax Records |
Disc 2
| Artist | Title | Orig. Year | Orig. Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unique 3 | "The Theme" (Original Chill Mix) | 1988 | 10 Records |
| 808 State | "Let Yourself Go" (303 mix) | 1988 | State 808 Records |
| A Guy Called Gerald | "Voodoo Ray" | 1988 | Rham Records |
| No Smoke | "Koro Koro" | 1989 | Cause N' Effect Records |
| Bang the Party | "Bang Bang You're Mine" (Rock Me Gently Original Radio) | 1989 | Cause N' Effect Records |
| Kalexi Shelby | "My Medusa" | 1989 | Transmat Records |
| Farley Jackmaster Funk | "The Acid Life" | 1989 | Trax Records |
| Plez | "Can't Stop" (Acid Rain Forest mix) | 1990 | Plezure Records |
| Virgo Four | "In a Vision" | 1989 | Trax Records |
| Ital Rockers | "Ital's Anthem" (Trebledown/Bassup mix) | 1990 | Bassic Records |
| Juno | "Soul Thunder" | 1990 | Bassic Records |
The 4xLP edition has a different track order, and omits Nitro Deluxe, Model 500, Phuture, Virgo Four, and Juno.
Warp 10+2: Classics 89–92 track listing
Disc 1
| Artist | Title | Warp Catalog Number |
|---|---|---|
| Forgemasters | "Track With No Name" | WAP1 |
| Nightmares on Wax | "Dextrous" | WAP2 |
| Sweet Exorcist | "Testone" | WAP3 |
| DJ Mink | "Hey Hey! Can U Relate?" | WAP4 |
| LFO | "LFO" (Leeds Warehouse mix) | WAP5 |
| LFO | "Track 4" | WAP5 |
| LFO | "Probe" | WAP5 |
| Nightmares on Wax | "Aftermath" (LFO remix) | WAP6 |
| Sweet Exorcist | "Testfour" | WAP3R |
Disc 2
| Artist | Title | Warp Catalog Number |
|---|---|---|
| Nightmares on Wax | "I'm For Real" | WAP6 |
| Nightmares on Wax | "Aftermath" | WAP6 |
| Tricky Disco | "Tricky Disco" | WAP7 |
| The Step | "Yeah You" (Robert's mix) | WAP8R |
| Sweet Exorcist | "Clonk (Freebase)" | WAP9 |
| Tuff Little Unit | "Join the Future" | WAP12 |
| Nightmares on Wax | "A Case Of Funk" | WAP15 |
| Coco Steel and Lovebomb | "Feel It" | WAP18 |
| LFO vs. F.U.S.E. | "Loop" | QUICK1 |
The final track does not appear on the 4xLP edition, although it is listed on the sleeve.
Warp 10+3: Remixes track listing
Disc 1
| Artist | Title | Remixer |
|---|---|---|
| LFO / Aphex Twin | "Simon From Sydney" / "Untitled" (SAW2 CD1 TRK7) | Pram |
| DJ Mink | "Hey Hey! Can U Relate?" | Luke Vibert |
| Boards Of Canada | "Kid For Today" | Stereolab |
| Seefeel | "When Face Was Face" | Isan |
| Autechre | "Vletrmx21" | Plaid |
| Aphex Twin | "Untitled" (SAW2 CD1 TRK1) | Four Tet |
| LFO | "Nurture" | Surgeon |
| Sweet Exorcist | "Testone" | Winston and Ross |
| Nightmares on Wax | "Sal Batardes" | Autechre |
| Nightmares on Wax | "Playtime" | John McEntire |
| Broadcast | "Hammer Without A Master" | Underdog |
| Autechre | "EP7/Envane" | Bogdan Raczynski |
| Link | "Arcadian" | Mogwai |
Disc 2
| Artist | Title | Remixer |
|---|---|---|
| Boards Of Canada | "An Eagle In Your Mind" | Push Button Objects |
| The Sabres of Paradise | "Wilmot" | Red Snapper |
| Two Lone Swordsmen | "Spine Bubbles" | Ellis Island Sound |
| Mike Ink | "Polka Trax 3" | Wechsel Garland |
| LFO | "Freeze" | Labradford |
| Squarepusher | "Big Loada" | Oval |
| Broadcast | "Booklovers" | Andy Votel |
| Aphex Twin | "Come To Daddy" | Richard Devine |
| Seefeel | "Air Eyes" | Mira Calix |
| Sweet Exorcist | "Mad Jack" | Jimi Tenor |
| Tricky Disco | "Tricky Disco" | Plone |
| Autechre | "Characi" | Jim O'Rourke |
| LFO | "Tied Up" | Spiritualized |
The final track was previously released on LFO's 1994 single Tied Up.
References
- Reynolds, Simon (22 July 2013). "The 20 best bleep records ever made". Fact Mag. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
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