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Label celebrates 20th anniversary with comprehensive collection

Warp Records are celebrating their 20th year in style with a lavish boxset containing five CDs and five 10″ vinyls, collected together under the very fitting title of Warp20. While the majority of the label’s roster are men, the likes of Leila, Broadcast’s Trish Keenan, Mira Calix and Seefeel’s Sarah Peacock do their bit for womankind by chipping in some previously unheard tracks. Leila contributes a cover of Aphex Twin’s ‘Vordhosbn’ (the Cornish word for sailboat), from Richard D James’s 2001 album drukqs, while Mira Calix teams up with Oliver Coates on a cover of Boards Of Canada’s ‘In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country’ from their 2000 EP of the same name. Broadcast get a look in with exclusive track ‘Sixty Forty’, and also with ‘Tender Buttons’ (the title track of their 2006 album) on the ‘best of the label’ CD curated by Warp Records co-founder Steve Beckett. Tender Buttons album track ‘I Found The F’ also crops up as a cover by Gravenhurst.

While we await a release date for this beautifully packaged collection, Pitchfork have revealed the tracklists for all but one of the CDs (a continuous mix of tracks from the boxset mashed together by Osymyso) and two of the 10″ vinyls (both of which contain locked-groove loops lifted from Warp tracks). Here’s the rest:

Warp20 (Chosen)
CD1 [chosen by online voting]
01 Aphex Twin, ‘Windowlicker’
02 Boards Of Canada, ‘Roygbiv’
03 Squarepusher, ‘My Red Hot Car’
04 Battles, ‘Atlas’
05 LFO, ‘LFO’ [Leeds warehouse mix]
06 Plaid, ‘Eyen’
07 Luke Vibert, ‘I Love Acid’
08 Autechre, ‘Gantz Graf’
09 Jimmy Edgar, ‘I Wanna Be Your STD’
10 Clark, ‘Herzog’

CD2 [chosen by Steve Beckett]
01 Broadcast, ‘Tender Buttons’
02 Squarepusher, ‘My Sound’
03 Boards Of Canada, ‘Amo Bishop Roden’
04 Battles, ‘Race:Out’
05 Flying Lotus, ‘GNG BNG’
06 Black Dog Productions – Xeper, ‘Carceres Ex Novum’
07 Nightmares On Wax, ‘I’m For Real’
08 Mike Ink, ‘Paroles (Original)’ 
09 Aphex Twin, ‘Bucephalus Bouncing Ball’
10 Jamie Lidell, ‘Daddy’s Car’
11 Squarepushed/AFX, ‘Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid’
12 Seefeel, ‘Spangle’
13 Autechre, ‘Drane’ 

Warp20 (Recreated)
CD1
01 Born Ruffians, ‘Milkman/To Cure A Weakling Child’ [Aphex Twin cover]
02 Jimi Tenor, ‘Japanese Electronics’ [Elecktroids cover]
03 Tim Exile, ‘A Little Bit More’ [Jamie Lidell cover]
04 Rustie, ‘Midnight Drive’ [Elecktroids cover]
05 Luke Vibert, ‘LFO’ [LFO cover]
06 Autechre, ‘What Is House?’ [LFO remix] [LFO cover]
07 Russell Haswell, ‘Cabasa Cabasa’ [Wild Planet cover]
08 Clark, ‘So Malleable’ [Milanese cover]
09 Diamond Watch Wrists, Fool In Rain’ [Pivot cover]
10 Hudson Mohawke ft. Wensday Night, ‘Paint The Stars’ [Jimi Tenor cover]

CD2
01 Mark Pritchard, ‘3/4 Heart’ [Balil – Black Dog Productions cover]
02 Mira Calix with Oliver Coates, ‘In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country’ [Boards Of Canada cover]
03 Pivot, ‘Colorado’ [Grizzly Bear cover]
04 Bibio, ‘Kaini Industries’ [Boards Of Canada cover]
05 Jamie Lidell, ‘Little Brother’ [Grizzly Bear cover]
06 Leila, ‘Vordhosbn’ [Aphex Twin cover]
07 John Callaghan, ‘Phylactery’ [based on Autechre's 'Tilapia']
08 Gravenhurst, ‘I Found The F’ [Broadcast cover]
09 Plaid, ‘On My Bus’ [Plone cover]
10 Seefeel, ‘Acrobat’ [Maxïmo Park cover]

Warp20 (Unheard)
10″ 1
A1 Boards Of Canada, ‘Seven Forty Seven’
B1 Autechre, ‘Oval Moon’ [IBC mx]
B2 Clark, ‘Rattlesnake’

10″ 2
A1 Plaid, ‘Dett’
A2 Elecktroids, ‘Elecktroids Bonus Circuit’
B1 Flying Lotus, ‘Tronix’
B2 Nightmares On Wax, ‘Biofeedback Dub’

10″ 3
A1 Plaid, ‘Sam Lac Run’
A2 Nightmares On Wax, ‘Mega Donutz Dub’
B1 Broadcast, ‘Sixty Forty’
B2 Seefeel, ‘As Link’

Alan Pedder

Broadcast, ‘Tender Buttons’

Seefeel, ‘Spangle’