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Mbuki Mvuki
''Mbuki Mvuki'' is the debut studio album by Plaid, independently released in 1991 on Black Dog Productions The Black Dog is a British electronic music group, founded in 1989 by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner. The group are considered pioneering figures of techno's ruminative "home-listening" aesthetic in the early 1990s. Followin .... All tracks on this album are also contained on the first disc of the compilation Trainer, released in 2000. Track listing #"Anything" - 5:00 #"Slice Of Cheese" - 5:43 #"Link" - 6:02 #"Perplex" - 4:05 #"Summit" - 4:38 #"Bouncing Checks" - 5:29 #"Yak" - 5:43 #"Scoobs In Columbia" - 3:40 External links *Mbuki Mvuki at Pitchfork.com 1991 albums Plaid (band) albums {{1990s-electronic-album-stub ...
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Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at  revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ...
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Plaid (band)
Plaid are an English electronic music duo composed of Andy Turner and Ed Handley. They were founding members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic (Andy Turner) and Balil (Ed Handley), before settling on Plaid. They have collaborated with female singers Mara Carlyle, Nicolette and Björk, and have released records on the labels Clear, Peacefrog, Black Dog Productions, and Warp (along with Trent Reznor's label Nothing Records). Aside from their own material, Plaid have done extensive remix work for many other artists, including Red Snapper, Björk, Goldfrapp, and The Irresistible Force. ''Parts in the Post'' (2003) and ''Stem Sell'' (2021) contains a lot of Plaid's remix work to date. Plaid collaborated with video artist Bob Jaroc for their live performances and on the 5.1 audio/visual project entitled ''Greedy Baby''. The project was completed on 20 July 2005, and was first shown at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in the South Bank Centre, and subsequently at ...
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Intelligent Dance Music
Intelligent dance music (commonly abbreviated as IDM) is a style of electronic music originating in the early 1990s, defined by idiosyncratic experimentation rather than specific genre constraints.''"…the label 'IDM' (for avant-garde, 'intelligent dance music') seems to be based more on an association with individualistic experimentation than on a particular set of musical characteristics."'' Butler, M.J., ''Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music'', Indiana University Press, 2006, (p. 80). It emerged from the culture and sound palette of electronic and rave music styles such as ambient techno, acid house, Detroit techno and breakbeat;''"The electronic listening music of the nineties is a prime example of an art form derived from and stimulated by countless influences. Partisan analyses of this music claim a baffling variety of prime sources (Detroit techno, New York electro + Chicago acid, Eno + Bowie, Cage + Reich, Gary Numan + Tange ...
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Black Dog Productions
The Black Dog is a British electronic music group, founded in 1989 by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner. The group are considered pioneering figures of techno's ruminative "home-listening" aesthetic in the early 1990s. Following several self-released EPs, the group signed to Warp Records in 1993 and released albums such as ''Bytes'' (1993) and '' Spanners'' (1995). In 1995, Handley and Turner departed to work on their spin-off project Plaid. Downie continued recording under band the name, with Richard and Martin Dust joining. The band's early EPs were collected on the 2007 compilation '' Book of Dogma''. Biography Early career In 1989, The Black Dog was unable to find a label to back its releases and started its own, Black Dog Productions, which released four vinyl records including the acclaimed '' Virtual''. These were followed by a number of EPs on the General Production Recordings label. The Black Dog released their first full-length album ''Bytes'' on War ...
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Not For Threes
''Not for Threes'' is the second studio album by English electronic music duo Plaid. It was released on 27 October 1997 by Warp. The album was released in the United States on 28 April 1998 by Nothing Records. Critical reception In 2017, ''Pitchfork'' ranked ''Not for Threes'' at number 36 on its list of the 50 best IDM albums of all time. Track listing Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Plaid * Ed Handley – production * Andy Turner – production, vocals (on "Ladyburst") Additional musicians * Benet – guitar (on "Kortisin", "Rakimou" and "Lilith"), violin (on "Rakimou" and "Lilith") * Björk – vocals (on "Lilith") * Coba – accordion (on "Rakimou" and "Lilith") * Mara – vocals (on "Myopia", "Ladyburst" and "Rakimou") * Nicolette – vocals (on "Extork") Design * Robert Clifford – photography * Think 1 – design Charts References External links ''Not for Threes''at Warp Warp, warped or warping may refer to: Arts and entertain ...
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Studio Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at  revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ...
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Trainer (album)
''Trainer'' is a two-disc compilation released in 2000 by Plaid (band), Plaid. It includes the group's rare 1991 debut ''Mbuki Mvuki'', as well as other hard-to-find or unreleased material. Some of the tracks were recorded under Plaid's aliases Atypic, Balil and Tura. Track listing Disc one #"Uneasy Listening" – 5:37 #"Anything" – 5:01 #"Slice of Cheese" – 6:00 #"Link" – 6:04 #"Perplex" – 4:05 #"Summit" – 4:38 #"Bouncing Checks" – 5:29 #"Yak" – 5:51 #"Scoobs in Columbia" – 5:34 #"Chirpy" – 4:47 #"Prig" (as 'Atypic') – 4:52 #"Eshush" (as 'Balil') – 4:42 #"Blah" (as 'Atypic') – 4:47 #"Norte Route" (as 'Balil') – 4:31 Disc two #"Fly Wings" – 4:06 #"Whirling of Spirits" (as 'Balil') – 5:55 #"Choke and Fly" (as 'Balil') – 5:51 #"Small Energies" (as 'Balil') – 6:09 #"Jolly" (as 'Atypic') – 6:07 #"Letter" (as 'Tura') – 5:20 #"Soft Key" (as 'Tura') – 5:18 #"Reishi" (as 'Tura') – 9:01 #"Uland" (as 'Balil') – 4:09 #"Tan Sau" – 6:07 #"Andr ...
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1991 Albums
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