People On Sunday

Gone for a Wander

Feorm Falorx

Tomason

Perspex

MixTape forever :)

Written, performed, mixed & mastered by
André "pixelorb" Brandes © 2025

Image: pexels.com (CC0 Creative Commons)

Instruments:
- U-he Repro-1
- U-he Diva
- TAL U-NO-LX
- Synapse "The Legend"
- Synapse Dune 3
- Toontrack EZ-drummer 2
- AAS Strum GS-2
- Full Bucket FB-7999

MixTape

Salience

DSA094wav

Reachy Prints

Nafovanny

https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/107937-richard-devine-sortlave
https://richarddevine.bandcamp.com/album/sort-lave
http://smarturl.it/RDSortLave

After a break of 6 years, Atlanta based electronic musician, producer and sound designer Richard Devine returns with a new album ‘Sort\Lave’ on Venetian Snares‘ Timesig imprint. Recorded between 2016 and 2017 using Richard’s custom built Eurorack modular system and two Nord G2 Modular units, Sort\Lave features 12 tracks of intricate electronica that ranges from abrasive percussive experiments such as ‘Revsic‘ to ‘Astra’s dazzling juxtaposition of sounds and onto the radiant ambience of the album’s closer ‘Takara‘.

Talking about the album’s genesis Devine explains “I’ve been using modular synthesizers since I was 17, but have never written complete tracks using these newer systems. This was my first experiment to see if it would be possible and I probably spent about 5 years building up the systems that I used on this album.”

“I wanted the record to sound very different to my previous works which had been more cold, digital, clinical even, and had all been made using computers. The aim here was the complete opposite, to create something that felt very organic, detailed, spacious, big and warm and just as importantly, a record that you could put on and play all the way through that flowed in a seamless way.”

This new approach was to prove fruitful and enabled Devine to create music in an entirely new way. “I really wanted to break free from timeline-based music creation and do things with my hands on the fly,” he explains. “So the tracks are more like captured snapshot performances where I could experiment and play around with the idea of probability-based sequencing for every patch, string multiple sequencers together that would feed other sequencers to come up with interesting rhythms and melodies. It was really fun coming up with new sounds this way too, I felt like I created several I haven't heard before with this album. Some of the tracks on the album were complete accidents and evolved from something that happened spontaneously. In the end I feel this is one of the best records I have released to date, so I’m very excited to share it with the world.”

Making his debut in 1995, Devine’s releases for labels including Schematic, Warp Records and Detroit Underground have established him as one of the leading figures within the electronica community. In addition to his musical productions, Devine has enjoyed a lengthy and successful career in sound design, developing patches for many of the world’s leading music technology businesses and working with companies such as Google and Nike.

Sort\Lave

Richard Devine - Opaque Ke (TIMESIG009)

Late Night Tales: Hot Chip

At Dawn

Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country

Angel's Flight

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”.