Heaven's Door: The Soundtrack

Orchard

Improvisation and composition with expressive midi controllers and a love for physically modeled synths. Most of what you hear on my soundcloud i played or programmed myself, sampling is mostly used for collaborations with other musicians.

Making electronic music since 1988
Official Store | plaid.warp.net
Bookings | marcus@lb-agency.net 
US Bookings | bowen@teamwass.com 
UK Press | duncan@9pr.co.uk
US Press | linda@warprecords.com

Plaid (pronounced \ˈplad\) are the London based electronic music duo Andy Turner & Ed Handley. They are two of the founding members of The Black Dog, releasing their first EP in 1989 and signing to Warp Records in 1991. They have used many other pseudonyms including; Atypic, Repeats and Balil, but have focusing on Plaid since 1995. They have released 11 studio albums as Plaid, from 1991's 'Mbuki Mvuki', to 2022's 'Feorm Falorx'. 

Various sources claim they took their name “Plaid” from the Welsh word for “Party”.

I love all different genres of music and I like to try to play connect the dots in musical interludes and influences as queer child of the great and wide African Diaspora.


Biography
My love affair with music began when I was just a kid. Living with a father who was a musician, he fostered an interest in a wide spectrum of musical genres from the time we could crawl.
    When I was a teenager, I got into making mix tapes for friends and myself. Music inspired me and was my rock when I came out as a queer teen. One Friday night I had the opportunity to play some music at my queer youth group's coffeehouse. It ignited something in me and I decided this was something I 've got to do.
    For a couple of years due to the lack of opportunities I was relegated to making mix tapes and the coffee house nights. I moved to Toronto in the mid 1990's and stumbled into a wonderful place called CKLN 88.1 fm. The station offered training workshops in being a technician and on-air programming. I was soon volunteering there as a tech and doing the occasional on-air fill in. To my good fortune a slot opened on air and soon I was programming a weekly show with Karen Augustine called B.A.S.S (blak Afrikan sistas of soul).
    
    From spinning on air I was asked if I would play a few gigs. I accepted it with joy and have been creating vibes since then. After a year and half on B.A.S.S, I moved onto my own show on CKLN - RedLight Special (Tuesday's 12:30 A.M. -2:30AM) and then now Afrotransit(Thursday’s 5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M) I continued with Aftrotransit on radioregent when CKLN folded.  I am no longer on Radio Regent  but will have a Podcast coming soon!

Personal Information
zest for life and a uncanny knack for stepping in muddy
I get great joy of seeing people respond and participate in whatever fashion they may choose. I like my music to reflect the diversity of the community I live in for me that means pushing the boundaries of race, sexuality and gender. It is how I live .... It is how I play. The key to this is to reach higher and respect always