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online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2019-06-28 04:52 [#02581328]
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why don't they use distortion on anything?


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2019-06-28 05:00 [#02581329]
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to answer my own question, dopest acid i've heard in a while
@acid


 

offline Roger Wilco from Mo's Beans on 2019-06-28 09:33 [#02581330]
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I tried to listen to their new album and I found it
deeply underwhelming.

Mind you've I've never liked Plaid. Too prim, too fussy.

Yes, I said that.


 

offline mermaidman on 2019-06-28 09:40 [#02581331]
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because distortion has allergies to plailooooool


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-06-28 12:26 [#02581333]
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me and Russell were talking about plaid last night


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2019-06-28 14:03 [#02581337]
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Jivver once told me that Plaid uses an Omnichord to
come up with their unusual chord and melody movements and
I've never been able to un-hear it.


 

offline Roger Wilco from Mo's Beans on 2019-06-28 14:52 [#02581338]
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"Some Omnichord musicians will play the instrument as a
keytar, by strapping the instrument on both ends and playing
it as if it were an electric guitar
"

If Plaid do this live then maybe I'll get back into them.

I remember once Jivver called Beaumont Hannant a bit of a
dick and up until then I'd kind of liked what I'd heard of
his, but after that damning judgement I could never
listen to him again.

And never will


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-06-28 14:57 [#02581339]
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who is the nicest down to earth IDM person? has anyone met
them on here?


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-06-28 14:57 [#02581340]
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ive had a few emails and twitter talks with Ceephax over the
years he seems like a really down to earth sort


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2019-06-28 23:22 [#02581369]
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bit late for plaid


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-06-29 04:52 [#02581397]
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tesco value autechre


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-06-29 05:02 [#02581399]
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flashbulb, he is the lidl aphex twin


 

offline Roger Wilco from Mo's Beans on 2019-07-07 13:23 [#02582030]
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"Ops" from the latest Plaid album just came on on Spotify
shuffle (or whatever,) and I enjoyed it. In the longer term
I don't know what this means, and whether this changes
anything. All I will say, for now, is that I enjoyed
it. The track "Ops".


 

offline Roger Wilco from Mo's Beans on 2019-07-07 13:24 [#02582031]
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Apart from Jivver, obvs, Luke Vibert was the nicest IDMer I
ever met. An impression I am led to believe shared by many.


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2019-07-07 14:28 [#02582038]
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plaid is awesome, first row, heavyweight idm masters. they
had some bland tracks and album(s) in the last years but so
did aphex and co.

i got spotify recently and started listening to some new
tunes and there are some pretty good ones. me like


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-07-07 14:33 [#02582039]
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i thoroughly enjoyed their peel sessions when i was a young
lad


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2019-07-08 10:22 [#02582090]
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all their songs sounds so clear, it's like their trademark,
distortion would ruin it for them.


 

offline RussellDust on 2019-07-08 23:16 [#02582119]
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I like plaid more as they age.


 

offline RussellDust on 2019-07-08 23:17 [#02582120]
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Reachy prints was ace


 

offline RussellDust on 2019-07-09 00:19 [#02582123]
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Everyone else does.


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2019-07-09 00:46 [#02582124]
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all their songs sounds so clear, it's like their
trademark, distortion would ruin it for them.


YHBT

(why doesn't simian mobile disco do grungy songs?!)


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2019-07-09 00:46 [#02582125]
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((but the vocals in "synthesize" could actually represent
how distortion could work in a plaid track))


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2019-07-09 00:57 [#02582127]
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just re-listening to the nts set and it's very good
indeed... especially enjoying the 5/4 track around the 20min
mark, mixed in perfectly too. tricky to pull off so well


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2019-07-09 01:44 [#02582132]
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i never did well with time signatures. i can dance to this
set, i can dance to venetian snares, but i couldn't actually
tell you what time signature any of it's in. if i sit there
and focus, yes, i can probably figure it out... but, i
dunno, all the EpicMegatracker stuff has been like: take
some noise, take a drum loop, pitch it and slice and chop
until it fits a tempo, and you wind up with a drum loop that
loops perfectly at 165bpm but where the beats fit are not
4/4. if it didn't blind me i'd run everything double-time to
increase that aspect of it. instead, i'll just use sample
offset and such to squeeze in between the grid lines

so, yeah. "they use odd time signatures" has never really
been a selling-point for me, for any band.

errata: the first time i "grokked" an odd time signature was
the verse of "money" by pink floyd, my freshman year of
college


 


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