quoted 1 line hey, im getting all these mails with some stuff about plaid and how they>hey, im getting all these mails with some stuff about plaid and how they
sold out and all kindsa other stuff like remixing manson n stuff....someone
please leave an intelligent post on what the >Hell is going on...just a
simple answer would be nice....thanks
quoted 2 lines tangible>
>tangible
It's all rather interesting and quite sad. It seems that Warp are planning
to release a 3 CD, 4 x LP compilation of early Plaid material that was only
available on what are now extremely difficult to get hold of EP's and LP's
or never officially released. None of the tracks being re-issued were
co-written, according to Ed and Andy, with Ken Downie.
However, it seems that for some laughable reason, Ken has a real problem
with this material seeing the light of day on what he claims is a "cash-in"
album and that releasing it on a compilation is presenting it out of
context.
I don't know about everyone else but I don't have the time or money to
wander aimlessly about for the next god-knows-how-many years looking for all
these rare EP's or the Mbuki Mvuki album and then having to pay some
collector hundreds of pounds for the privilege. That is NOT what music is
about. If Ken is so convinced that all of these tracks should be freely
available to all then why hasn't he already released the MP3's he is
threatening to place on the web if the compilation release goes through?
I have to admit that I wasn't aware that much of this material was already
available as free MP3 files, but frankly I'm not that interested. I can only
listen to MP3 files at work, and I'd rather have a CD to play on my far
higher quality hi-fi setup.
I welcome the release of the compilation and don't view it as a "cash in"
nor would I really care if it is, frankly. I have neither heard nor own much
of this material and this album provides me and everyone else who came a
little later to The Black Dog and Plaid's work the chance to hear how
Plaid's music began and evolved, as well as access to material that was
never even released.
It's a little sad to see that all Ken seems to be able to resort to as a
result of Plaid's recent posting is rather immature and unpleasant personal
insults and references to their previous friendship.
Let's hear no more about it. This is not the place for slagging matches.
James A.D. Knapman.
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