Ed: "There are some strings sounds in there that were sampled from one of the toilets on the Bjork tour bus. We noticed one night as we were driving along that it was producing a deep, windy whistling." "Wind must have been coming back up through the bend to produce this nice string, paddy, sound. So we sampled it. It happened as we were driving through Czechoslovakia, so we gave it that title." "We liked recording natural sounds. We'd be quite up for processing, so you can never normally tell what they really are."
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Ed: "There are some strings sounds in there that were sampled from one of the toilets on the Bjork tour bus. We noticed one night as we were dri… read more
Ed: "There are some strings sounds in there that were sampled from one of the toilets on the Bjork tour bus. We noticed one night as we were driving along that it was producing a de… 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