Disposable Information
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Warp Records (http://www.warp-net.com)
If you like techno music you can't dance to and without a 4 to the floor beat then these records I recommend without hesitation. Basically almost everything Warp have done will send me directly to the 'Pseuds Corner' section of Private Eye. But then, John Peel always appeared there when he raved about records which specialised (only) in being less than 10 seconds long, which I taped. I guess the problem is that John Peel appeared there and still has his show (although he appears to have recently migrated into the suspect school of 'I'm old and therefore can afford to be excessively genial' journalism) whereas this selection of tracks will be merely dismissed as the ravings of a madman with no mates. Such is the way the world works.

• LFO Frequencies and Advance.
  Frequencies is their first record and full of severe bass rumbling ideal if your "Car rides by with the Booming System". Play very loud. Includes the number one tune of British pop chart LFO which was most appreciated by me because certain DJs on radio refused to play as "there is no chorus". Advance is a deeper work which I think is often brilliant but a dinner party guest once described as "like tinnitus". A higher recommendation is difficult to come by. Mark Bell of LFO also produced Bjork's Homogenic album and releases his less commercial stuff under the addictive Speed Jack moniker. His latest track 'A Tribute to All Those Who Said Fuck You' appeals at least in terms of its title if not the music.
• Autechre Incunabula, Amber, Chiassic Slide, Autechre
  Autechre have only ever included one album note, which was 'Disposable Information, contains some surface noise'. Their most recent record (Autechre) avoids such nonsense and includes neither any cover art or any markings on the CD. UnderBOAC on this record has a drum rhythm fashioned from the most unlikely noises and an interesting processed vocal section about the benefits of an unnamed washing powder.
• Aphex Twin Richard D James Album
  Most of Aphex Twin's output is characterised by an excessively overloaded sound which spells certain destruction for minor speakers and is on now deleted twelve inches. Buy them if you find any! Being named after a two-track tape recorder popular in the early 1960s, he says 'Oh, and by the way, Aphex is a trade mark of Aphex Systems Limited and is used by permission'. I am uncertain whether I am allowed to quote his recording name as a consequence.
• Speedy J Ginger, G-Spot.
  For some reason (almost certainly extremely low sales...) Jochem Paap (Speedy J refers to his habitual speed modification to +8 on Technics decks whilst DJing) moved to NovaMute for his greatest record to date, 'Public Energy No.1". This aberrant behaviour is almost certainly the cause of the appaling title and (I couldn't believe this) the cliche of a crop circle pattern on the cover. Nevertheless, Ginger is deep and tuneful, G-Spot is not quite right and 'Public Energy No.1' is an unbelievably good record that sounds like nothing else, with beats being processed through vocoders and harmonic distortion. Particularly on 'Haywire' and 'Hayfever'.
• Nightmares On Wax Smoker's Delight Carboot Soul
  Another highly productive duo on the Warp label, Nightmares on Wax have struggled to produce three albums over the last two decades. The tunes are usually either blindingly good or "could not be fucked" mediocre but their influence on the UK dance music "scene" cannot be underestimated (actually, I read that in a music magazine).