# Forgemasters (band)
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{{Short description|British electronic music act}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}
'''Forgemasters''' was a British [electronic music](/source/electronic_music) act composed of Robert Gordon, Winston Hazel and Sean Maher.[{{cite book | last= Young | first= Rob | authorlink= Rob Young (writer) | title= Labels Unlimited: Warp | year= 2006| publisher= [Black Dog Publishing](/source/Black_Dog_Publishing) | location= London | isbn= 1-904772-32-3 | page= 164}}][{{cite web | url = https://www.vice.com/en/article/warp-25-forgemasters/ | date = 25 July 2014 | access-date = 6 March 2015 | first = Daniel | last = Montesinos-Donaghy | publisher = [Vice Media, Inc.](/source/Vice_Media%2C_Inc.) | title = We Spoke to Winston Hazel About the Birth of Forgemasters}}] Their 1989 single "'''Track with No Name'''" was the first release by [Warp Records](/source/Warp_Records)[{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/20-years-of-the-warp-factor-1778146.html | date = 28 August 2009 | accessdate = 6 March 2015 | newspaper = [The Independent](/source/The_Independent) | title = 20 years of the Warp factor}}][{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/apr/17/warp-records-20-years | date = 17 April 2009 | accessdate = 12 November 2019 | first = Dave | last = Simpson | newspaper = [The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) | title = Bleep of faith}}] and helped define the sound of Warp and [bleep techno](/source/bleep_techno).[{{cite web | url = http://www.factmag.com/2012/04/17/oh-my-god-what-have-we-done-the-secret-history-of-warp-records/ | date = 17 April 2012 | accessdate = 6 March 2015 | publisher = [Fact (UK magazine)](/source/Fact_(UK_magazine)) | title = The secret history of Warp Records}}][{{cite web | url = http://www.rbmaradio.com/lists/warp-special | date = | accessdate = 6 March 2015 | publisher = [Red Bull Music Academy](/source/Red_Bull_Music_Academy) | title = Warp Special}}][{{cite web | url = http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2349 | date = 2 December 2014 | accessdate = 6 March 2015 | publisher = [Resident Advisor](/source/Resident_Advisor) | title = Bleep: The story of Britain's first bass revolution}}]
==History==
Robert Gordon, Sean Maher and Winston Hazel were colleagues in the FON record shop and studio in Sheffield.[{{cite book | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=iCPH4iyQf3MC | title=How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005 | author=Richard King | year=2012 | publisher=[Faber and Faber](/source/Faber_and_Faber) | isbn = 9780571278329}}] Gordon was an engineer at FON Studio and co-founder of [Warp Records](/source/Warp_Records). The name Forgemasters was taken from a local heavy engineering firm, [Sheffield Forgemasters](/source/Sheffield_Forgemasters).[{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/label-profile-warp-records-398605.html | first = Sarah | last = Birke | date = 2 November 2007 | accessdate = 6 March 2015 | newspaper = [The Independent](/source/The_Independent) | title = Label Profile: Warp Records}}] Dave Simpson, writing in ''[Fact](/source/Fact_(UK_magazine))'' 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."