小简介 Although Plaid pre-existed the association, the duos Ed Handley and Andy Turner spent most of their early recording years with Ken Downie as the dancefloor-confounding Black Dog Productions. Meshing well with Downies vision of heavily hybridized post-techno and obscurantist thematics, the pair brought several nascent Plaid tracks to the Black Dog table on the groups debut, Bytes, a collection of tracks recorded by various iterations of the three members. The group recorded several albums and EPs throughout the early and mid-90s, helping to forge a style of dance music one step removed from the 12 considerations of the average faceless techno act; Handley and Turners mutual love for early hip-hop contributed BDPs more bawdy, street-level grit. The pair split from Downie in 1995, and began rechanneling their efforts full-time with an EP on the neo-electro Clear label before signing to Warp. (The pair also recorded an album with European t...