Jules Hyam, David Newman, and Andrew Odia were three students who met at Sheffield University in 1988.

Andrew was a former indie-kid, cellist, and recorder player in an early music group before discovering and diving headlong into Sheffield's electronic/black music scene, via sessions at Occasions with Winston and Parrot, at The Palais with Anwar and Green, and at the parties he went on to co-host around town - heavy on the Detroit techno, Chicago house and Yorkshire bleeps.

David, a fellow Mancunian, had already been a fan of synth music from the likes of Gary Numan and Depeche Mode, and by 1987 he could be found podium dancing at the Hacienda on a Friday night to the new electronics of 808 State, Guy Called Gerald, and Mr. Fingers. In Sheffield, the tracks he'd already begun to write now came under the influence of acts like Aphex Twin, LFO and Cabaret Voltaire, recordings courtesy of WARP Records.

Andrew and David were introduced to each other by Jules, a music fan who'd turned his passion into a business with the creation of Bunker Studios: a massive old mixing desk, Yamaha monitors, a handful of Korg and Roland outboard synths and drum machines, and an Akai S3000. Before moving to premises in the city centre, the studio's unglamorous original location had been the attic of a suburban villa, made infinitely more glamorous by the fact that none other than Richard H. Kirk (an idol of all three) was the neighbour on the other side of the walls.

It's here that Jules manned the studio as engineer for a variety of projects. He played David and Andrew each other's tracks, they both liked what they heard, and the three went on to collaborate in bringing out the 5-tracker Space Disco EP on Andrew's Byo-Jo Recordings (BYO1) in 1993. Only a hit at Fatcat Records at the time, it went on to become a collector's item, was reissued (and sold out) on vinyl on La Bella Di Notte in 2020 and will be reissued digitally via Audiomoves in 2022/2023.

When people began to ask Andrew whether any other recordings from that era existed, he told them that he'd had recordings that had been intended for follow-up releases. But during a break-in at his home back in Manchester after leaving Sheffield, a bag containing all his old tapes had been stolen. Then, out of the blue, a few years ago, David was in touch to say that he'd found some music while listening through some of his own old DAT tapes. These are the only remaining tracks from that early '90s Bunker studios era presented as 2 EPs (EP2 to follow).

Jules Hyam, David Newman, and Andrew Odia were three students who met at Sheffield University in 1988.

Andrew and David were introduced to each other by Jules, a music fan who'd turned his passion into a business with the creation of Bunker Studios: a massive old mixing desk, Yamaha monitors, a handful of Korg and Roland outboard synths and drum machines, and an Akai S3000. Before moving to premises in the city centre, the studio's unglamorous original location had been the attic of a suburban villa, made infinitely more glamorous by the fact that none other than Richard H. Kirk (an idol of all three) was the neighbour on the other side of the walls.

From a studio in a deserted building behind The Forum, Sheffield. Andrew, David & Jules composed music within a stone's throw from FON Records, a shop that became the first WARP Records store. FON stood for Fuck Off

Nazis and Sheffield stood for its own unique style of techno. Bunker Studios consisted of a massive old mixing desk, Yamaha monitors, a handful of Korg and Roland outboard synths and drum machines, and an Akai S3000.

EP2 is a collection of tracks at this magical time by three 20 year old electronic music fanatics who had been plugged into LFO, Forgemasters, Cabaret Voltaire, Mr Fingers and Detroit's pioneers of the electronic groove.