Andy: "This features Leila playing piano. I don't think it was a real piano; it's a MIDI one. But, yeah, the riff is by Leila. Her background was quite jazz-based and she was a really good keyboard player. She'd also had tracks out on Rephlex. She was the impetus to this track, then we wrote a beat that has that kind of '90s hip-hop swing to it. We were still using the Akai S950, which was quite hip-hop."
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Andy: "This features Leila playing piano. I don't think it was a real piano; it's a MIDI one. But, yeah, the riff is by Leila. Her bac… read more
Andy: "This features Leila playing piano. I don't think it was a real piano; it's a MIDI one. But, yeah, the riff is by Leila. Her background was quite jazz-based and she … 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