Frequencies
1991 · techno · house · electro
Warp Records · WARP LP3
№ 18 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century
Yorkshire bass weight; Warp's founding statement and the sound of a sub being tested
Frequencies is Warp's founding statement and the sound of a sub-bass being tested to destruction. Yorkshire bleep techno makes low end the whole composition rather than a support for it, turning physical pressure into musical form. The back half thins out, but the front half still sounds capable of changing the shape of a room.
№ 13 on The 10 Best Progressive House and Rave Albums
Warp's bleep manifesto, and a sequence of brilliant machine studies rather than a sustained arc. It survives away from the dancefloor better than almost anything from 1991 and it does not argue across a side.
№ 15 on The 10 Best IDM Albums
Yorkshire bleep, and the record that shook Warp into existence. Sits on the border between this list and techno.
Also ranked
- Dancefloor
- № 2
- Influence
- № 17
- External poll
- № 13
Tracklist
- A1Intro
- A2LFO
- A3Simon From Sydney
- A4Nurture
- A5Freeze
- A6We Are Back
- B1Tan Ta Ra
- B2You Have To Understand
- B3El Ef Oh!
- B4Love Is The Message
- B5Mentok 1
- B6Think A Moment