Origin London, England Years active 1991–present Genre Intelligent dance music | Genres IDM Website www.plaid.co.uk Members Ed Handley, Atypic | |
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Associated acts The Black DogAtypicBalil Albums Profiles | ||
Plaid band
Plaid are an English electronic music duo, composed of Andy Turner and Ed Handley. They were founding members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic (Andy Turner) and Balil (Ed Handley), before settling on Plaid. They have collaborated with female singers Mara Carlyle, Nicolette and Björk, and have released records on the labels Clear, Peacefrog, Black Dog Productions, and Warp (along with Trent Reznor's label Nothing Records).
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Aside from their own material, Plaid have done extensive remix work for many other artists, including Red Snapper, Björk, Goldfrapp, and The Irresistible Force. Parts in the Post (2003) contains just a handful of Plaid's remix work to date.
Plaid collaborated with video artist Bob Jaroc for their live performances and on the 5.1 audio/visual project entitled Greedy Baby. The project was completed on 20 July 2005, and was first shown at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in the South Bank Centre, and subsequently at the BFI Imax cinema in Waterloo, London. Greedy Baby was released on DVD from Warp on 26 June 2006.
In 2006, Plaid composed and performed the original score to Michael Arias' anime film Tekkonkinkreet, and then went on to rejoin Arias for his second feature, Heaven's Door, as well as two of his subsequent short films.
In 2009, they contributed a cover of a Plone song to the Warp20 (Recreated) compilation.
Musical style
Plaid is generally described as IDM and has been referred to by some critics as "post-techno." Note that IDM is a term used in America for what was referred to as Ambient Techno in Britain during the early to mid-1990s and later as Electronic Music. They are known to employ a variety of time-signatures in their music and often create syncopated beats and melodies using a variety of real instruments and samples.
Albums
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Compilations
Audio Visual Project
Songs
Do MatterThe Digging Remedy · 2016
Itsu2004
SquanceDouble Figure · 2001