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Plaid | Trainer
LP, Warp
Tekst: da volgaBabe
Publicatiedatum: 07 augustus 2000
"Aah! Those were definitely the days." A hundred times this particular thought must have occured to me during the first (re)listening of this absolutely marvelous collection of Plaid-classics. In the nineties usually conveniently classified under the 'intelligent techno' denominator, Plaid (and The Black Dog) in fact were and still remain a class of their own. Not just 'cause they were way more inventive and daring in their rhythms, sounds and structures than the average technoproducers of that period, not only 'cause they allowed far more influences in their music, not because they were the only ones who, in the end, seemed capable of deepening the original melancholic Detroit spirit, but also because the result of their early-90ies ramblings still sounds incredibly up-to-date after the fifty or so new technogenres that have sprung out of the fertile ground since.
So which classics and -more importantly- rarities are on it? We have here the entire 'Mbuki Mvuki' lp, their first ever release, -you're bound to pay up to a 100£ for the original, I've heard- plus the groundbreaking 'Scoobs in Columbia', a track that is never ever going to bore me, were I exposed to it a zillion times. There is one of those legendary early Planet E -releases 'Nort Route'. The two, at times almost lyrical ep's that appeared on Kirk DeGiorgio's A.R.T. imprint, the ep they put out on the now defunct Clear imprint, some great unreleased tracks and the bulk of their other monikers Tura and Balil. Everything, that is. For those who were not aware of these boys up till now: this is the most impressive collection of strange, akward, mysterious, experimental, ecclectic, stoned-out and mad-as-a-hatter grooves'n'things you're bound to hear in quite a while. Not without a slight hinting of nostalgia, I proclaim hereby: Those really were the days.
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