Don't miss the brand new Polymer A/V show by Plaid in San Francisco, on the final stop of their North American tour.
Tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/plaid-polymer-live-a-v/
A strong visual aesthetic has always been part and parcel with Plaid's output -- whether in artwork, videos, or on-stage projections, which the two feel are vital to what they do and have evolved along with technical tools. Their 'Polymer' tour will feature the artists 'playing' a visual sequencer, with custom screens built for three-dimensional image mapping for a fully sensory enveloping experience.
The duo, composed of Ed Handley and Andy Turner, has crafted and evolved their sound over nearly thirty years cementing them as veterans in the IDM electronic music world. Marking Plaid's tenth album, 'Polymer' melds a tangled plethora of broken beats, rhythmic textures, and bright melodic soundscapes. The album reflects on the multitude of forms that plastics and proteins can take form.
"The problems and benefits of Polymers felt like good themes for this album, their repetitious strength, endurance and troubling persistence, the natural versus the synthetic, silk and silicone, the significant effect they have on our lives," says the artists.
About the Artist
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 welcoming counterpart to the white heat of the rave explosion.
But where the others would swiftly diverge and head off in many creative directions -- into increasing abstraction or intricacy, or back towards pure techno -- Plaid were the ones who stayed truest to the musical values they started out with. Their sound palette has got broader over the years, their techniques more sophisticated, they increasingly incorporate "real" instruments. But over the years, their focus has remained the same: intricate but always grooving rhythm, immersive listening experience and melodies and sound design that connect direct to the emotional centres.
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Tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/plaid-polymer-live-a-v/
A strong visual aesthetic has always been part and parcel with Plaid's output -- whether in artwork, videos, or on-stage projections, which the two feel are vital to what they do and have evolved along with technical tools. Their 'Polymer' tour will feature the artists 'playing' a visual sequencer, with custom screens built for three-dimensional image mapping for a fully sensory enveloping experience.
The duo, composed of Ed Handley and Andy Turner, has crafted and evolved their sound over nearly thirty years cementing them as veterans in the IDM electronic music world. Marking Plaid's tenth album, 'Polymer' melds a tangled plethora of broken beats, rhythmic textures, and bright melodic soundscapes. The album reflects on the multitude of forms that plastics and proteins can take form.
"The problems and benefits of Polymers felt like good themes for this album, their repetitious strength, endurance and troubling persistence, the natural versus the synthetic, silk and silicone, the significant effect they have on our lives," says the artists.
About the Artist
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 welcoming counterpart to the white heat of the rave explosion.
But where the others would swiftly diverge and head off in many creative directions -- into increasing abstraction or intricacy, or back towards pure techno -- Plaid were the ones who stayed truest to the musical values they started out with. Their sound palette has got broader over the years, their techniques more sophisticated, they increasingly incorporate "real" instruments. But over the years, their focus has remained the same: intricate but always grooving rhythm, immersive listening experience and melodies and sound design that connect direct to the emotional centres.
http://pppolymer.net/
Don't miss the brand new Polymer A/V show by Plaid in San Francisco, on the final stop of their North American tour.
Tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/plaid-polymer-live-a-v/
A strong visual aesthetic has always been part and parcel with Plaid's output -- whether in artwork, videos, or on-stage projections, which the two feel are vital to what they do and have evolved along with technical tools. Their 'Polymer' tour will feature the artists 'playing' a visual sequencer, with custom screens built for three-dimensional image mapping for a fully sensory enveloping experience.
The duo, composed of Ed Handley and Andy Turner, has crafted and evolved their sound over nearly thirty years cementing them as veterans in the IDM electronic music world. Marking Plaid's tenth album, 'Polymer' melds a tangled plethora of broken beats, rhythmic textures, and bright melodic soundscapes. The album reflects on the multitude of forms that plastics and proteins can take form.
"The problems and benefits of Polymers felt like good themes for this album, their repetitious strength, endurance and troubling persistence, the natural versus the synthetic, silk and silicone, the significant effect they have on our lives," says the artists.
About the Artist
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 welcoming counterpart to the white heat of the rave explosion.
But where the others would swiftly diverge and head off in many creative directions -- into increasing abstraction or intricacy, or back towards pure techno -- Plaid were the ones who stayed truest to the musical values they started out with. Their sound palette has got broader over the years, their techniques more sophisticated, they increasingly incorporate "real" instruments. But over the years, their focus has remained the same: intricate but always grooving rhythm, immersive listening experience and melodies and sound design that connect direct to the emotional centres.
http://pppolymer.net/
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Tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/plaid-polymer-live-a-v/
A strong visual aesthetic has always been part and parcel with Plaid's output -- whether in artwork, videos, or on-stage projections, which the two feel are vital to what they do and have evolved along with technical tools. Their 'Polymer' tour will feature the artists 'playing' a visual sequencer, with custom screens built for three-dimensional image mapping for a fully sensory enveloping experience.
The duo, composed of Ed Handley and Andy Turner, has crafted and evolved their sound over nearly thirty years cementing them as veterans in the IDM electronic music world. Marking Plaid's tenth album, 'Polymer' melds a tangled plethora of broken beats, rhythmic textures, and bright melodic soundscapes. The album reflects on the multitude of forms that plastics and proteins can take form.
"The problems and benefits of Polymers felt like good themes for this album, their repetitious strength, endurance and troubling persistence, the natural versus the synthetic, silk and silicone, the significant effect they have on our lives," says the artists.
About the Artist
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 welcoming counterpart to the white heat of the rave explosion.
But where the others would swiftly diverge and head off in many creative directions -- into increasing abstraction or intricacy, or back towards pure techno -- Plaid were the ones who stayed truest to the musical values they started out with. Their sound palette has got broader over the years, their techniques more sophisticated, they increasingly incorporate "real" instruments. But over the years, their focus has remained the same: intricate but always grooving rhythm, immersive listening experience and melodies and sound design that connect direct to the emotional centres.
http://pppolymer.net/
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