Ed: "This is the one with bird samples in. I don't know if they were ours. They may have been from a sample CD of Amazonian birds. When you listen to them they don't sound like European birds to my ears." Andy: "No, they are definitely Amazonian (laughs). The reason we used a lot of samples is because we were able to. It was the first time we got the Yamaha CBX-D5 digital recording processor. It was literally the ability to sample found sounds that made us do it." Ed: "It also has a pitch-shifting, portamento-type, bendy thing going on, hasn't… read more
Ed: "This is the one with bird samples in. I don't know if they were ours. They may have been from a sample CD of Amazonian birds. When you… read more
Ed: "This is the one with bird samples in. I don't know if they were ours. They may have been from a sample CD of Amazonian birds. When you listen to them they don't sound… 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