Artists signed to Warp include Flying Lotus, Plaid, Oneohtrix Point Never, Danny Brown, Brian Eno, Hudson Mohawke, Kelela and Yves Tumor.

In the early 1990s, Warp became associated with the UK's northern bleep techno scene, including acts such as LFO, Sweet Exorcist, Forgemasters and Nightmares on Wax.

In 2004, Warp opened the online store bleep.com, which sells downloadable music free of digital rights management.

Warp was founded amidst the development of Northern England's "bleep techno" scene, often characterized as the first uniquely British rave style.

[4] While drawing influence from American techno and house, bleep artists also utilized electro-style synthesizer sounds and unusually heavy bass.

[6] The first release (WAP1) was by Forgemasters (produced by Robert Gordon), whose 500 copy pressing of "Track with no Name" was financed by an Enterprise Allowance grant and distributed in a borrowed car.

[10]: 567 Warp's third record, "Testone" (1990) by Sweet Exorcist (Richard H. Kirk and Richard Barratt), defined Sheffield's bleep techno sound, by making playful use of sampled sounds from Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Computer Game" (1978) and the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

[12] Warp went on to release a series of singles and albums from 1992 under the Artificial Intelligence heading, a series of experimental electronic music releases by artists such as Aphex Twin (as Diceman and later Polygon Window), Autechre, B12, the Black Dog, Richie Hawtin and Alex Paterson (of the Orb).

In 1996, Warp started the Blech club night in Sheffield,[6] also in London between 1997 and 1999,[14] and released an accompanying compilation CD under the same name.

Signings included Brian Eno, Oneohtrix Point Never, Mount Kimbie, Kwes., Darkstar, Kelela, patten and Jeremiah Jae.

Warp released a split remix 12" for Record Store Day, which was a collaboration between Brian Eno, Nicolas Jaar and Grizzly Bear.

Nightmares on Wax (George Evelyn) released his first album in five years, entitled Feelin' Good, and followed this with one of his biggest ever international tours, with a live band.

In December 2013 Warp collaborated with Tate Britain to present a free evening of performance and installations, Warp x Tate,[24] alongside artist Jeremy Deller, inspired by Deller's work 'The History of the World',[25] with contributions from Oneohtrix Point Never, Patten, Darkstar, Hudson Mohawke and Rustie.

He has directed videos for Aphex Twin's 1997 single "Come to Daddy" and 1999's "Windowlicker", as well as "Come On My Selector" by Squarepusher and "Second Bad Vilbel" by Autechre.