Forgemasters was a British electronic music act composed of Robert Gordon, Winston Hazel and Sean Maher.
[5][7][8] Robert Gordon, Sean Maher and Winston Hazel were colleagues in the FON record shop and studio in Sheffield.
[9] Gordon was an engineer at FON Studio and co-founder of Warp Records.
[3][4][6][7] Dave Simpson, writing in Fact 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.
"[5] Matt Anniss, writing for Resident Advisor in 2014, called it "one of the defining records of the era".