Beep Bleep
Bleep, Warp Records' MP3 store, is turning five this month, and, proving that it's all grown up, subsuming Warpmart, Warp's former mail-order outlet, in a one-stop shop for digital downloads and physical media alike. (You can see the new site at beta.bleep.com.)
To celebrate the occasion, Warp asked a handful of friends, family and hangers-on (Thom Yorke, Steve Beckett, Kiran Sande, Luke Vibert, Zomby, myself, for starters) to list five favorite records in the Bleep catalogue. The results are occasionally surprising and generally instructive—see for instance Surgeon, wisely repping Bauhaus alongside Scorn and Horace Andy…