Plaid: "Good coffee, disabling the internet, cleaning the mouse mat..." - 7 top questions from yesterday's Reddit AMA

Read 7 of the questions answered by Plaid at the Reddit AMA on July 1st, covering relationships, thoughts on Aphex Twin, Björk and Autechre, cartoons, film soundtracks and a lot more.

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Plaid should be much more famous than they are, they're like the easily accessible brother of Aphex and BOC. I think Squarepusher is overrated.

I think RDJ is overrated. Squarepusher is just as good as RDJ. I'm sure RDJ learned a lot of breakbeat shit from Tom. Tom released Feed Me Weird Things before RDJ started doing that drum bass shit.

well yeah i think AFX got inspired by Squarepusher but the Hangable Auto Bulb eps were actually released in 1995, before Feed me weird things (1996) but this was not the first D&B records by >[].

  On 7/2/2014 at 2:08 PM, Klopjob said:

Plaid should be much more famous than they are, they're like the easily accessible brother of Aphex and BOC. I think Squarepusher is overrated.

 

Plaid are frickin' awesome and one of the first electronic artists I got into. I'm so sad I missed this, but work is a nightmare right now and i had no time.

here's the step by step formula to get more famous than other musicians:

1) get on MTV in the 80' or 90's

  On 7/2/2014 at 2:10 PM, pafr said:

I think RDJ is overrated. Squarepusher is just as good as RDJ. I'm sure RDJ learned a lot of breakbeat shit from Tom. Tom released Feed Me Weird Things before RDJ started doing that drum bass shit.

  On 7/2/2014 at 2:10 PM, pafr said:

I think RDJ is overrated. Squarepusher is just as good as RDJ. I'm sure RDJ learned a lot of breakbeat shit from Tom. Tom released Feed Me Weird Things before RDJ started doing that drum bass shit.

IIRC they were real good friends at the time and were sending tracks back and forth trying to outdo each other in the complexity of drum programming

 

 

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(bradezone: Plaid + David Lynch = my head just exploded)

 

Well, that would be something alright!

  On 7/2/2014 at 3:06 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

  On 7/2/2014 at 2:28 PM, k h o v said:

well yeah i think AFX got inspired by Squarepusher but the Hangable Auto Bulb eps were actually released in 1995, before Feed me weird things (1996) but this was not the first D&B records by >[].

sorry, I forgot music was a competition.

 

 

i never said it was

WATMM sure is an interesting place. Even the footie threads turn into AFX arguments.

  On 7/2/2014 at 4:11 PM, Bechuga said:

WATMM sure is an interesting place. Even the footie threads turn into AFX arguments.

Welcome to WATMM.

I think Plaid are just as good as RDJ and Autechre, the music they produce is just less complex and more rooted in popular music. There should actually be more famous, because they're a lot more accessible.