Re: (idm) plaid

From Giles Ward
Sent Fri, Oct 31st 1997, 22:26

> eeewwww...why so many vocal parts on the plaid full-length?  maybe next 
> time ed and andy won't resort to using their famous friends voices.  i 
> just don't understand, i was really enjoying the sounds on the album 
> until the voices kicked in.  what do the rest of you who heard the album 
> think?

I'm quite chuffed with it.

>  am i alone thinking the vocals should've been left out? 
> personally i can see past it,

really?  It shouldn't bother you then.  Buy a karaoke machine which masks
out vocals from tracks if it really upsets you.

> but i know i'd prefer the album sans 
> bjork, nicollete and whoever else plays their bagpipes, err i believe 
> even andy sings a bit too.  yikes, what's the world coming too?  lately 
> i've been noticing a lot of vocal tracks being added to electronic 
> musicians work, who in the past mostly refrained from it, and while i 
> guess some people enjoy the use of singing over beats, i know i 
> definitely do not.

Well don't buy it then.  Plaid make music for themselves, not fussy, narrow
minded IDM Nazis.  There's plenty of stuff without vocals on out there.

> at the very least i wanna hear people do something 
> different with the vocals

Are you suggesting the likes of Nicolette and Bjork are nothing special?

> i'm still pro-instrumental, with the voice being 
> left out.

Try taking your head out of your arse.  Do guitars worry you too?