From their playful early releases in the late 80's until now, electronic music pioneers Ed Handley and Andy Turner have explored diverse musical styles and embraced new methods of synthesis whilst maintaining a musical thread that spins back through the early Hip Hop scene of their youth and beyond to the sounds of the late 60s and 70s that inspired it.
The innovative London duo have been expanding the realm of electronic music as Plaid since they diverged from trio The Black Dog in the early 90s, and have toured extensively and collaborated widely over the years, writing for and performing with sonic researchers, percussion groups, solo artists such as Björk, and orchestras, most recently for the BBC Concert Orchestra. They have written for computer games and scored several feature films, one of which, Tekkon Kinkreet, was awarded the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year.
