- Audio CD (Mar 3 2003)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Matador Records
- ASIN: B00001SVNI
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #217,870 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 |
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| 1. Track With No Name - Forgemasters |
| 2. Dextrous - Nightmares On Wax |
| 3. Testone - Sweet Exorcist |
| 4. Hey Hey! Can U Relate? - DJ Mink |
| 5. LFO (Leeds Warehouse Mix) - LFO |
| 6. Track 4 - LFO |
| 7. Probe - LFO |
| 8. Aftermath (LFO Remix) - Nightmares On Wax |
| 9. Testfour - Sweet Exorcist |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. I'm For Real - Nightmares On Wax |
| 2. Aftermath - Nightmares On Wax |
| 3. Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco |
| 4. Yeah You (Robert's Mix) - The Step |
| 5. Clonk (Freebass) - Sweet Exorcist |
| 6. Join The Future - Tuff Little Unit |
| 7. A Case Of Funk - Nightmares On Wax |
| 8. Feel It - Coco Steel And Lovebomb |
| 9. Loop - LFO Versus F.U.S.E. |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
The British label Warp calls these tracks classics, and in one sense of the word it's tough for Americans to know if that's right: damn few of us remember sharing our first kiss while Forgemaster's "Track with No Name" blared on the car radio or dancing cheek too cheek with a prom date while the cover band played Tuff Little Unit's "Join the Future." But in another sense, there's no doubt these 18 tracks are timeless originals. The 7 to 10 years that have elapsed since each of them came out (an eon in the fast-changing world of techno) have done no damage to the music. Dated, yes--you wouldn't mistake these tunes for anything anyone's putting together in 1999 (not counting those cheeky nostalgia buffs who are trying to recreate the sound of '89)--but damaged, no. There's an innocence to these tunes, a naive belief that those thin drum timbres and unadorned breakbeats are enough to keep a dance-floor crowd happy. The blippy analog textures of LFO's "Probe" or Sweet Exorcist's "Testone" are pretty thin, too, and it's tough to imagine how trippy they must have sounded back in the day. But trippy they were: not a few of today's innovators were inspired by what they heard here, and the fact that our ears are now too jaded to make it out lends this collection an undeniable poignancy. Where most techno wants to transport you into the future, these tracks lull you back into a just-passed golden age. --Jeff Salamon
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5.0 out of 5 stars
this is a steal...,
This review is from: 1989-1992 Warp 10+2 Classics (Audio CD)
i bought this simply because it had "lfo" by lfo on it and like the other reviews said, good luck finding these tracks anywhere else. "aftermath" is probably my 2nd favorite on this cd. deep bass, simple song structure, spacy synths.... why cant somebody revive the blip?
5.0 out of 5 stars
A valuable CD,
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This review is from: 1989-1992 Warp 10+2 Classics (Audio CD)
This anthology does two things nicely: first, puts on a single metallic plate a lot of good tracks that are still relevant to contemporary electronic music. And then, it makes available a few songs that are very hard to find, even on tape or in some digital format. Except for Nightmares on Wax, all the other musicians are unavailable this side of the ocean.This CD is a good remainder of what electronic sounds used to be: simple and intense. Uncluttered by layers of beeps and zaps, each song is about repetition and rythm. Most of the 80s music has aged like lava lamps: a kitch piece of forniture that has been rescued because of its pathetic ugliness. Not so for this music. Its roots are in the detroit sound, but also in the early Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk. This could be dance music, but it really dares to stretch its boundaries. Warp 10+2 is also a good album, with a twist similar to this one (vintage techno). The third of the series is made of entirely original music, with dense, fast remixes. It's a good counterpoint to the first two albums.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Full of hard-to-find near classics,
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This review is from: 1989-1992 Warp 10+2 Classics (Audio CD)
Matador does an excellent job here of capturing a specific era of hypnotic, blippy, bleepy house. It took me back to the early west coast rave scene, when the "house is a feeling" motto thoroughly embraced cold, robotic textures and turned them into hot dancefloor anthems. The songs by LFO, Tricky Disco, Nightmares on Wax and Coco Steel make this album well worth its price.
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