plaid Bare Necessities

[Guest fox]

I know it's been discussed before, but what's the consensus on the Bare Necessities album? Plaid alone? This Spencer guy with Plaid "producing"?

 

I lean towards just Plaid, myself. I'm not hearing much of anything else. What say you?

[Guest sirch]

"written by +One, produced by Plaid". +One = Sean Spencer. or does it?

 

i'd be interested to know what else he's done. i remember somebody from DeFocus saying he'd done some other things aswell... this was on their forum, i think... years ago. i seem to remember the other stuff he'd done was a bit more straight 'dancey'...

tech-house-ey, maybe... i can't remember if i checked it out or not. but if i did i obviously didn't think much of it, otherwise i'd remember. :)

 

would like to have another listen now tho...... if anybody knows for sure what else here's done... for sure for sure.

[Guest fox]

This certainly isn't proof* of any kind, but Plaid have been part of releases where the actual group appeared as a bunch of pseudonyms "produced" by Black Dog (and for some reason i still think discogs is wrong in saying that ed is discordian popes and ken is close, up, over - i could swear the plaid os9 site had a free track by close, up, over on it) and when bare necessities was released Plaid were under contract with Warp, so it would make sense that they might use a pseudonym to put out an album on another label.

 

not rust-proof, anyway

[Guest sirch]

This certainly isn't proof* of any kind, but Plaid have been part of releases where the actual group appeared as a bunch of pseudonyms "produced" by Black Dog (and for some reason i still think discogs is wrong in saying that ed is discordian popes and ken is close, up, over - i could swear the plaid os9 site had a free track by close, up, over on it) and when bare necessities was released Plaid were under contract with Warp, so it would make sense that they might use a pseudonym to put out an album on another label.

 

not rust-proof, anyway

 

 

this is very true! still, i think Sean is/was a real person. but maybe Plaid did do a little more than just record and mix the album.

a bit like what they do when remixing, they add a lot of "additional production".

 

as for Discordian Popes. yes, that was Ken Downie. and Close, Up, Over was definitely Ed.

i thought most people knew this already?

[magdog]

Bare Necessities to me sounds 80% Plaid & 20% Sean Spencer.. i may be off by a few percent mind

[Guest sirch]

i don't reckon it's that much. how does anybody know what Sean Spencer sounds like anyway, to be able to say it's more, or less, of him? it just sounds a lot like Plaid because of the sounds/instruments used i reckon. and they mixed it, so it has that nice Plaid production sound.

i've always thought it sounded way too simple to be completely written by Plaid. sounds to me like the equivalent of Ceephax to Squarepusher. like if Plaid had a younger brother or cousin that they let loose in their studio, and then just helped arrange and mix down some of the good stuff for him in to proper tracks, with some additional sounds and melodies 'n stuff. ...i dunno.

[theplaided]

bare necessities is Stevie Wonder. he was just so sick of his own image in sunglasses by some piano that he wanted to make this release...i know it cause when i looked carefully at the sleeve of the album through my spying glass, i saw his picture he was insidiously smiling...

[theplaided]

seriously, someone may ask them by email, i guess...

 

it always sounded to me very Plaid-y, by the way...

[magdog]

i don't reckon it's that much. how does anybody know what Sean Spencer sounds like anyway, to be able to say it's more, or less, of him? it just sounds a lot like Plaid because of the sounds/instruments used i reckon. and they mixed it, so it has that nice Plaid production sound.

i've always thought it sounded way too simple to be completely written by Plaid. sounds to me like the equivalent of Ceephax to Squarepusher. like if Plaid had a younger brother or cousin that they let loose in their studio, and then just helped arrange and mix down some of the good stuff for him in to proper tracks, with some additional sounds and melodies 'n stuff. ...i dunno.

Ummm, yeah, 60 / 40 then

[Guest sirch]

lol. who knows...

 

50/50 i'd say. or 100% Plaid. or, 100% Spencer. or... this album doesn't even exist. this is just a dream, within a dream.

[magdog]

hahaha :)

 

Seriously though, sounds like Spencer was let loose in the Bubble and Plaid added their magic.