Ed Handley: "The main studio at the time was a room in our house just off Finchley Road in London, which we were renting. The neighbour wasn't happy. That's the reason we had to move in the end, which was fair enough. We didn't have massive speakers, they were fairly modest, but there was no soundproofing or anything. We got the odd bad stare in the morning (laughs)." Andy Turner: "We rented this little cottage in Devon after our neighbour in London really complained about the noise. We went down there for a week to work on the mixes so we could listen … read more
Ed Handley: "The main studio at the time was a room in our house just off Finchley Road in London, which we were renting. The neighbour wasn… read more
Ed Handley: "The main studio at the time was a room in our house just off Finchley Road in London, which we were renting. The neighbour wasn't happy. That's the reason we … read more
Plaid sit right at the very heart of global electronica. In fact there's a very real sense in which Ed Handley and Andy Turner are the perfect encapsulation of what the electronic music of their generation was all about. As Plaid and as two-thirds of The Black Dog, they were central to the Artificial Intelligence movement of the early-mid 1990s: alongside their WARP stablemates Autechre, The Aphex Twin, B12 and allies like Richie Hawtin, Speedy J, Kenny Larkin, they brought new rhythmic variation, emotive melody and sensual textures to electronic music, creating a warm and welc… read more
Plaid sit right at the very heart of global electronica. In fact there's a very real sense in which Ed Handley and Andy Turner are the perfect encapsulation of what the electronic musi… read more
Plaid sit right at the very heart of global electronica. In fact there's a very real sense in which Ed Handley and Andy Turner are the perfect encapsulation of what the electronic music of their generation was all about. As Plaid … read more