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- Forgemasters discography at Discogs
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Forgemasters was a British electronic music act composed of Robert Gordon, Winston Hazel and Sean Maher. [1] [2] Their 1989 single "Track with No Name" was the first release by Warp Records [3] [4] and helped define the sound of Warp and bleep techno. [5] [6] [7]
Robert Gordon, Sean Maher and Winston Hazel were colleagues in the FON record shop and studio in Sheffield. [8] Gordon was an engineer at FON Studio and co-founder of Warp Records. The name Forgemasters was taken from a local heavy engineering firm, Sheffield Forgemasters. [5]
Their single "Track with No Name" was the first release by Warp Records. It was of a techno subgenre, the primarily Sheffield-based bleep techno, and written in four hours one evening at Gordon's home studio. [4] [6] [9] Dave Simpson, writing in Fact in 2012, described it as "driven by an eerie pulse, a sound which would soon be called a 'bleep' and become the distinctive signature of hardcore northern techno and, for its first two years, the sound of Warp." [5] Matt Anniss, writing for Resident Advisor in 2014, called it "one of the defining records of the era". [7]
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