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Plaid | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 31, 2000)
• Original Release Date: October 31, 2000
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Warp Records
• ASIN: B0000516ZE
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #320,330 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have, November 12, 2003

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Devin Gardner (Annandale, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trainer (Audio CD)

Truly, one of the greatest early releases of an 'IDM' artist. From the moment it starts off with Uneasy Listening, it will have you dancing till the very end, hitting the listener with everything from strong, driving techno, to relaxed jive and beautiful, etheral ambient mixtures. While the first CD is more oriented towards tonal, listener friendly dance, the second CD consists of pieces which focus on either ambient motifs and more abrasive percussive tunes, which means it is definately going to be harder to digest for a lot of listeners. Reagrdless, this CD is truly an amazing compilation, and will help listeners to discover where the roots of the IDM genre come from. This is a must have along with Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Nos. 85-92, Autechre's Incunabula, and U-Ziq's Tango n' Vectiff.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Plaid by all the other names is still excellent!!!, September 21, 2000

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"o2nspace" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trainer (Audio CD)

Balil, Atypic, Tura, The Black Dog, call them what you will. This album is a great collection of those lesser-known tunes that came from the minds of Ed Handley and Andy Turner before they gained their most recent popularity as the ingenius duo, Plaid. It's amazing and inspiring just how easliy the "Plaid" sound graces genres from the whole spectrum ranging from Rock to Classical and everything in between and to the sides. I love the Latin flavor of "Scoobs" and the live techno ambience of "Choke and Fly" is absolutely gorgeous!! You really cannot explain what it is to hear Plaid. They don't work in genres; they don't imitate stuff they've heard. Rather, they have their own original sound, and any influences you might hear in their music are altered to sound like Plaid, yet remain recognizable! Plaid is truly their own type of music. You'll love this album and all their others even more.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, June 1, 2001

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Giuseppe A. Paleologo "gappy" (Riverdale, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trainer (Audio CD)

First of all: I woudln't recommend this album to a newbie of electronica, IDM or Plaid specifically. Not that it is bad, but there are more important albums to buy first, such as "Bytes" (under the Black Dog name) or "Not For Threes" or even "Rest Proof Clockwork". Yet, this is a good album for the very simple reason that the music has aged gracefully. It is not at the edge any more, and bears traces of late 80s pop music and a certain falir for exotic sound (like animal sounds) that were popular at the time (listen to "Lifeforms" by FSL to get an idea...). Still, this is supremely enjoyable music. Although its structure is simpler than the later production by Plaid, everything is here already: polyrithms and catchy melodic loops.

I would suggest this to anyone with some knowledge of electronica and a philologic interest in its roots. In this respect, this album is valuable at least as much as the "Warp 10+x" series.