![]() ![]() ![]() All I offer is a brief attempt to tell his story through the vinyl records he left in his wake. For more details of his career, particularly his time with Warp records, I recommend you read Rob Young's excellent book "Warp - Labels Unlimited". ![]() He was a bit of a geek from an early age, with a strong interest in electronics that would stand him in good stead when he became a staff engineer at Sheffield's legendary FON studio complex in the mid-80s, working closely with Mark Brydon (future star of Moloko) on many and varied recording projects. What follows isn't a biography or any kind of well-researched factual account of his career (this is, after all, just a load of amateur dross) but I can tell you that his parents came from Jamaica, he was raised in Sheffield and his earliest musical adventures occurred within the fringes of reggae and punk. He never became a personality that people could latch onto.more of a shadowy enigma, but still his shadow looms large in my mind when I think about the foundational aspects of the kind of music that really appeals to me. Perhaps because, unlike say A Guy Called Gerald, he was very much a backroom boy who's most important work was done behind the scenes, or under aliases. ![]() Or me he's one of the key architects that shaped the sound of British underground house and techno music in its developing stages, yet Robert Gordon remains a somewhat neglected figure. ![]()
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