Record label Network Records Albums The Black Steel EP | Genre Dance/electronic | |
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Members Winston Hazel, Sean Maher, Robert Gordon Similar Sweet Exorcist, Tuff Little Unit, LFO, Coco Steel & Lovebomb, Greater Than One | ||
Forgemasters was a British electronic music act composed of Robert Gordon, Sean Maher (aka DJ Parrot) and Winston Hazel. Their single Track With No Name was the first release by Warp Records and would help define the sound of Warp and bleep techno.
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History
Robert Gordon, Sean Maher and Winston Hazel were colleagues in the FON record shop in Sheffield. 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.
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. 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." Matt Anniss, writing for Resident Advisor in 2014, called it "one of the defining records of the era".
Singles and EPs by Forgemasters
Singles with contributions by Forgemasters
Notable compilation album appearances
Remixes
Songs
Track With No NameThe Black Steel EP · 1991
ClapThe Black Steel EP · 1991
Track With No Name / !!! - Hello? Is This Thing On? / Elecktroids - Future Tone / LFO - We Are Back / Lex Loofah - Freaky Deaky / DJ Majuva - Township Funk / Leila - Little Acorns / Coco Steel & Lovebomb - Feel It / Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco / DJ Majuva - Township Funk2009