It's excellent, actually. I've never heard any of the material off of Mbuki
Mvuki, and Plaid were right when the said that it's pretty rough sounding.
But it's still interesting. All fairly Scoobs In Columnbia style.
Probably the best thing about the compilation is the set of unreleased
tracks that come with it. Chirpy, Prig and Eshish are all unreleased tracks,
all of which are excellent, Eshish displaying leanings towards the sound
they adopted on Not For Threes. Probably my favourite track is another
unreleased one called Tan Sau which is simply magnificent.
It's nice to have this album, if only to prove to my friends that Plaid
didn't always produce the goofy sort of music that features heavily on Rest
Proof Clockwork (which I love incidentally - it's just that a lot of people
I know who aren't into IDM claim that it's too "silly"). The inclusion of
the tracks they released through Kirk Degiorgio's Art label is cool since a
lot of this was classed as highly experimental and influential if I'm not
mistaken (I don't claim to be an expert on the history of IDM or
electronica).
I'd recommend this to anyone in an instant. The packaging is very nice too
:)
James A.D. Knapman.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelley Hackett [SMTP:khackett@aba.iupui.edu]
> Sent: 30 June 2000 14:17
> To: Knapman, James; 'idm@hyperreal.org'
> Subject: RE: [idm] The arrival of Plaid's Trainer
>
> How does it sound?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Knapman, James [mailto:JKnapman@PFS.Co.UK]
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 6:24 AM
> To: 'idm@hyperreal.org'
> Subject: [idm] The arrival of Plaid's Trainer
>
>
> Just to let everyone know, Warpmart is now accepting orders for the new
> Plaid compilation album. I ordered my copy yesterday afternoon and
> received
> it this morning, well ahead of it's advertised release date, so if people
> are itching to get hold of a copy of this, head over there.
>
> James A.D. Knapman.
>
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