Forgemasters was a British electronic music act composed of Robert Gordon, Winston Hazel and Sean Maher.[1][2] Their single "Track with No Name" was the first release by Warp Records[2][3][4][5][6] and would help define the sound of Warp and bleep techno.[5][7][8]
Robert Gordon, Sean Maher and Winston Hazel were colleagues in the FON record shop and studio in Sheffield.[9] 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.[5]
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.[3][4][6][7] 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."[5] Matt Anniss, writing for Resident Advisor in 2014, called it "one of the defining records of the era".[8]
