Originally Published: 2003-04-13

I buy Plaid releases like some people collect fine wine, only I can consume their recordings and keep them too. Plaid are the class of the new electronica, a duo who started off in the important British techno group Black Dog, before subsidizing their own ventures with work-for-hire production jobs like these collected here. Not that they just phoned-in their work, mind you. Plaid had standards to keep up when working for cutting-edge artists like Bjork, whom they produced and toured with. Their version of Bjork's "All Is Full Of Love" starts off this double disc collection with a joyful contrapuntalism that a switched-on Bach would sound like if he was working today. Plaid are also known for their rhythmic invention as well, since leading the way in the early '90's with the "intelligent" use of fast breakbeats (respected by drum & bass producers in-the-know like Photek included here) and slow ones - the "trip hop"-style downtempo funky drumming heard in their remix from UNKLE's classic Mo Wax EP, The Time Has Come (1995). Also on this essential set of remixes is a new Plaid production, "Wrong Ways," that grooves with a gritty analogue texture that's hip to the current interest in sonic revivalism.

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