Re: MM&W/ Jimi Tenor

Pirkka Hartikainen (phartika@niksula.hut.fi)
Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:01:22 +0200 (EET)


> the 10". But one question I definitely have, is why is a band like Jimi
> Tenor on Warp Records? Has Warp expanded beyond electronica?

in his own words (translated by myself from Finnish interview):

"I was performing in Vienna, and there as a representative from WARP
in the audience. I was on stage, when Mika of Panasonic brought me
a gigantic lebenkase-horsemeat pie and placed it on my organ. I have
no idea why. I fondled the pie while I was playing a romantic song.
At that point Steve from Warp decided: 'I'll make that guy a star!'
It took the lawyers six months to write a deal on it."

and, remember that artists such as Nightmares on Wax & Red Snapper
have been on Warp before Tenor..

pirkka