Peacefrog
2003
Parts In The Post
About This Album
Though Plaid don't share the post-production prowess of Aphex Twin (who was similarly anthologized barely a month before), any collection of their remixing -- widely scattered and rarely heard -- is welcome indeed. Dance luminaries Peacefrog heartily obliged (after Warp head Greg Eden gave the go-ahead) and the results rank between Aphex Twin's 26 Mixes for Cash and Herbert's Secondhand Sounds as the best available post cards to latter-day remixing; if not as consistently breathtaking as Aphex, the duo's work is also less monolithic and rigid than Herbert's often aped style. Parts in the Post takes nearly all of Plaid's remixing work following their 1995 split with Ken Downie (Black Dog), though the styles heard range far into the past, back to the ghostly electro of early-'90s classics like "Choke and Fly" (for glorious examples of such, check their remixes of Funki Porcini's "King Ashabanapal" or Studio Pressure's seminal "Relics," from fellow Kirk DeGiorgio associate Photek). Like all the great electronic remixers, Plaid can go both ways with their work, either remaking a track with little relation to the original or essentially re-producing the artist by integrating their style into the framework of the song.
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