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From:
Giles Ward
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Date:
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 22:19:44 -0000
Subject:
Re: (idm) plaid
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<199710312226.WAA22994@sand.global.net.uk>
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quoted 5 lines eeewwww...why so many vocal parts on the plaid full-length? maybe next> eeewwww...why so many vocal parts on the plaid full-length? maybe next > time ed and andy won't resort to using their famous friends voices. i > just don't understand, i was really enjoying the sounds on the album > until the voices kicked in. what do the rest of you who heard the album > think?
I'm quite chuffed with it.
quoted 2 lines am i alone thinking the vocals should've been left out?> am i alone thinking the vocals should've been left out? > personally i can see past it,
really? It shouldn't bother you then. Buy a karaoke machine which masks out vocals from tracks if it really upsets you.
quoted 7 lines but i know i'd prefer the album sans> but i know i'd prefer the album sans > bjork, nicollete and whoever else plays their bagpipes, err i believe > even andy sings a bit too. yikes, what's the world coming too? lately > i've been noticing a lot of vocal tracks being added to electronic > musicians work, who in the past mostly refrained from it, and while i > guess some people enjoy the use of singing over beats, i know i > definitely do not.
Well don't buy it then. Plaid make music for themselves, not fussy, narrow minded IDM Nazis. There's plenty of stuff without vocals on out there.
quoted 2 lines at the very least i wanna hear people do something> at the very least i wanna hear people do something > different with the vocals
Are you suggesting the likes of Nicolette and Bjork are nothing special?
quoted 2 lines i'm still pro-instrumental, with the voice being> i'm still pro-instrumental, with the voice being > left out.
Try taking your head out of your arse. Do guitars worry you too?