Īfter Peel's death, Warp publicly thanked the DJ for his backing: Outside Warp's usual parameters, Peel also gave airtime to releases on indie subsidiary label Gift, including early 90s singles from Sheffield session stalwarts Pulp, before the band signed for Island. It subsequently worked with other electronic music artists long championed by the DJ, including Alex Paterson (of the Orb) and Brian Eno. Kirk of Peel session veterans Cabaret Voltaire. The first album released by the label was by Sweet Exorcist, who featured Richard H. Warp initially tapped into two areas that interested Peel: the local Sheffield tradition of electronic music and the northern club music explosion of the late 1980s from both sides of the Pennines. The DJ closely followed the evolution of the Sheffield label from early “bleep techno” 12-inch dance singles from outfits such as LFO and Nightmares On Wax to a wider range of experimental electronic music more for home listening, including releases by session artists Aphex Twin and Boards Of Canada. In June 1998, the opening night of the Meltdown festival curated by Peel was a Warp label live special featuring Autechre, Broadcast, Plaid and Plone. Warp Records - Artificial Intelligence (Full Album)
(John Peel, Featured Label, BBC website, 2000 (archived) I was very impressed with their performances at the Warp Records Showcase, though they all seemed a little nervous beforehand, when they got on the stage they did me proud." Each artist has a strongly defined personality that subtly comes out in their music. "The thing about records on the Warp label is that they are always the same yet somehow startlingly different.
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