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September 04, 2009

A Good Long Look at Warp Records, with its Co-Founder...

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Twenty years, huh? Steve Beckett even finds that hard to believe.

“As one of my friends said,” explains the Warp co-founder, “‘Sticking it out with any-fucking-thing for 20 years is amazing, let alone something in the music business.’”

Indeed. Yet here he is, about to usher in a weekend of special events that celebrates the circuit-bending consistency and mind-numbing diversity of a label that’s made stars out of electronic music’s most reclusive producers (Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Autechre) and pressed everything from choir boy folk (Grizzly Bear) and punk funk (!!!) to electro-fied soul (Jamie Lidell) and whatever the hell Battles is.



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