Plaid
Experimental electro duo Andy Turner and Ed Handley started creating
disconcerting, post-techno, angular soundscapes for cult dance label Warp
Records in 1991 and remixed for Goldfrapp, UNKLE and Bjork. Alongside the likes
of Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Autechre, the pair were at the forefront of a
new generation of DJs in the 1990s, who moved on from the death of rave culture
by producing darker, stranger, ambient beats in their bedrooms (or in Plaid's
case, their shed) and were occasionally dubbed "Intelligent Techno". The Suffolk
schoolfriends grew up listening to 1980s hip h...
