In fact, two of Warp’s biggest hits of the rave era – ‘ Tricky Disco’ by Tricky Disco and the still omnipresent ‘LFO’ by LFO – were not only bona fide rave smashes but also breaks-fuelled anthems that crash-landed into the UK Top 40 and onto our TV screens as part of Top Of The Pops increasingly dance-crazed Thursday night's coverage. Kirk (alongside DJ Parrot, real name Richard Barratt) tragically passed away last month. The second-ever release on Sheffield’s soon-to-be-essential Warp Records imprint, the song traced a sonic terrain that led to a series of similarly successful rave-crushing 12” releases in 1990 from the likes of LFO and Sweet Exorcist, whose founding member Richard H. I was a mere teenager when Nightmares On Wax first entered my orbit with the proto-bleep instrumental ‘ Dextrous’ in ‘89.
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