IMHO Plaid's music became ultimatelly dull. I'll elaborate by small digression : I've liked how in "Hi-Tech Soul" interviews Detroit music creators admitted how much Alvin Toffler's book influenced them. That was great. I've felt this all over from Detroit music , and one needed no 'electronic' means to achieve it. The sound had to be futurist to 'feel' into the theme, and the rising popularity came not from fact it was some nice fairytale, but from fact more and more people actually experienced things book described. Then voila, there was musical world for their emotional mindstate! Plaid gone too much 'mainstream'. You cannot conform to thing you want to shape. It's like trying to make statue reminding rocks you try to make statue from. It's art in itself, but it's nice in the interview they do admit they do not quite want to go into this type of art. I disagree that it's hard to surprise people sonically. Plaid slept under the rock the whole 8bit game era! with just 3 channels or even plain beeper music, many 8bit artists create sonic world for games, with sound effects and musical themes. It takes a lot to 'train' the ear , and music is not something 'universal' . Emotions are, but music is not. There was lot of research on tonal map teaching done recently , thanks to advances in fMRI and i do recommend Plaid to get into it srlsy. Or just study how people get into acid, or 8bit chiptunes, as with their musical knowledge they can do aswell that :) There are many 8bit games still released . It would be good study to make music for them as with that they would use their 'mainstream pleasing' skills ... But there is more into futuristic music to explore even with current toolset, and i see Plaid seem to feel that intuitively by not abandoning the music scene for live coding or 'academic music' as they call it ;) They also do have several 'storytelling' pieces. Even if they want to follow just Detroit style it's matter of choosing right inspiration :) Perhaps it would be good to just see how Detroit music propagated through punk scenes. Somehow more people from punk scene do recognize Detroit techno than anyone who listened to dance or even some genres of electronica. It's because punk stemmed from situationism, something phenomenologically predicting "future shocks" and even trying to control it. Dadaism, surrealism, distortion of propaganda - it was all known , and labels like Smitten just flow on it , being classified as punk or acid depending on just legacy of classifier. So perhaps "society of spectacle" and "science and sanity" could be new inspirations for new wave of plaid's creation? or they will reinvent fairytale world of psytrance and merge with mainstream? ... time will show...
Piotr Curious what? You obviously didn't listen to Plaids live sets/mixes... ThePlaided has uploaded several Awesome ones. I've been listening this past week, and reading your comment saying it's dull... nah mate, some of the best music ever ... :-)
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Thanks for the upload !!! Plaid are just amazing I listen to them for 8 years now and I love them!
Great interview, thanks for sharing, man!
I wonder when the guys from Redbull academy will finally share the Ed's interview with us...
PLAYED! ITS PRONOUNCED PLAYED! YESSSSSS! YESSSS! I WAS ALWAYS RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG! I'M IN LOVE!
According to Ed its pronounced Plad
I've been listening to their stuff since the Black Dog days. I'm really looking forward to their new album Scintilli. Already preordered it on Bleep.
@sheatheman Yup, not sure about that stuff, normally just use him at the beginning of a sentence. But wow you found him!
I love Plaid. That is all.
WOAH YES I LOVE PLAID!
Your sounds give me the same feelings as when I listen to Cevin Key's project Download.
This is HEAVY shit gents! Subbed.
@exerhlp it is already up there on redbull's site already...cant be downloaded but yet, watchable...
@TheAPC91 quite rite! indeed!
can anyone shed some light on their recording rig that we keep seeing?
Acid is microtonal?
Whats the tracks at 12 minutes in and at the end. Thanks!
Robin Dreier it’s “Zeal” from the album Spokes. :)
@TheAPC91 I think the button you are referring to is shift or caps lock
thanks man
Howdy boys what is the piece playing at 00:15 ?
What is that portable recorder on the table??
what's the song at 3:00?
is this interview on one of the dvds
you re welcome
If you love Plaid's music, you should know that I really really love you :)
I love you too.
the launching of big face..off greedy baby
@ThePlaided that's what i meant... this is selfish to show it, but not to share it..
E.M.R.
Recycle more...
Soon...
IMHO Plaid's music became ultimatelly dull.
I'll elaborate by small digression :
I've liked how in "Hi-Tech Soul" interviews Detroit music creators admitted how much Alvin Toffler's book influenced them.
That was great. I've felt this all over from Detroit music , and one needed no 'electronic' means to achieve it. The sound had to be futurist to 'feel' into the theme, and the rising popularity came not from fact it was some nice fairytale, but from fact more and more people actually experienced things book described. Then voila, there was musical world for their emotional mindstate!
Plaid gone too much 'mainstream'. You cannot conform to thing you want to shape. It's like trying to make statue reminding rocks you try to make statue from. It's art in itself, but it's nice in the interview they do admit they do not quite want to go into this type of art.
I disagree that it's hard to surprise people sonically.
Plaid slept under the rock the whole 8bit game era!
with just 3 channels or even plain beeper music, many 8bit artists create sonic world for games, with sound effects and musical themes.
It takes a lot to 'train' the ear , and music is not something 'universal' . Emotions are, but music is not. There was lot of research on tonal map teaching done recently , thanks to advances in fMRI and i do recommend Plaid to get into it srlsy.
Or just study how people get into acid, or 8bit chiptunes, as with their musical knowledge they can do aswell that :)
There are many 8bit games still released . It would be good study to make music for them as with that they would use their 'mainstream pleasing' skills ...
But there is more into futuristic music to explore even with current toolset, and i see Plaid seem to feel that intuitively by not abandoning the music scene for live coding or 'academic music' as they call it ;) They also do have several 'storytelling' pieces. Even if they want to follow just Detroit style it's matter of choosing right inspiration :)
Perhaps it would be good to just see how Detroit music propagated through punk scenes. Somehow more people from punk scene do recognize Detroit techno than anyone who listened to dance or even some genres of electronica. It's because punk stemmed from situationism, something phenomenologically predicting "future shocks" and even trying to control it. Dadaism, surrealism, distortion of propaganda - it was all known , and labels like Smitten just flow on it , being classified as punk or acid depending on just legacy of classifier.
So perhaps "society of spectacle" and "science and sanity" could be new inspirations for new wave of plaid's creation?
or they will reinvent fairytale world of psytrance and merge with mainstream? ... time will show...
Piotr Curious what? You obviously didn't listen to Plaids live sets/mixes... ThePlaided has uploaded several Awesome ones. I've been listening this past week, and reading your comment saying it's dull... nah mate, some of the best music ever ... :-)
@failmedotnet HA!!! I CARE NOT!!!
what song is at 9:30???
Ricky Davis Music Zn Zero, off of Greedy Baby. Glad I could answer your question 2 years late