“If you were trying to explain IDM to someone who had heard neither the term nor the music categorized as such (i.e. 99% of the populace), you could do worse than to put on a Plaid record. With a history stretching back to the formative days of post-techno, including a contribution Warp Records' seminal *Artificial Intelligence* compilation (the duo was then working with Ken Downie as Black Dog Pro”
