Plug - Here It Comes

Luke Vibert has so many aliases, he and Aphex Twin could have a competition to see who has the most releases that have never been directly credited to them. Vibert primarily records as Wagon Christ these days but he's also well known as Plug for his Drum 'n' Bass For Papa album and the three EPs he released in the mid-nineties. The EPs are startlingly imaginative uses of the jungle rhythms while always bringing melody and his perverse taste for easy listening records to the forefront, whereas the Papa album is a bit more serious.

Apart from a number of compilation tracks, Vibert stopped recording as Plug around the turn of the century, though Todd Osborn aka Soundmurderer somehow managed to get Vibert to give up an EP of unreleased Plug tracks which he released on the Rewind label in 2006. That collection, the Here It Comes EP, is a wonderful reminder of how sweet and twisted those Plug records are and how talented Vibert is.

Below you'll find a link where you can download the aforementioned Here It Comes EP as well as an additional ten tracks from various compilations. That's almost ninety minutes of prime Plug! If that's not enough though, and it really shouldn't be, head on over to Bleep and check out the main Plug releases, all of which will have you bouncing up and down with joy. Then dig deeper into Wagon Christ!


Plug - Here It Comes+

Here It Comes EP:
01 Here It Comes
02 Gangsta
03 Riddim
04 Astronaut

Rarities:
01 The Bowling Green - Strange (Plug Remix)
02 Lunar Laugh
03 Header
04 Dark Matter
05 A Hot One
06 Keep On Going
07 Keen As Mustard
08 Snapping Fuss
09 Argos
10 Ruff Dog

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Nope, not back from my little vacation/break/thing yet, but I was digging through a never ending pile of CDs today and found this. I thought it would be cool to post so here it is. That said, anyone out there have a lossless copy of Trent Reznor's remix of N*E*R*D's Lapdance? It's for an upcoming post. I used to have a promo CD of it but I can't seem to locate it any longer. Any chance someone has a FLAC of it they could share with me? Write me and I'll give you more info if you'd like.

Regarding this little sampler, back in 98 I was going to the Lorain County Community College and we were trying to get their radio station, which didn't actually broadcast on the radio, to be taken seriously and possibly get promotional materials from labels. No one really supported it other than myself and it went nowhere. That said, we did get some really good promo CDs and I managed to get in touch with Nothing Records. At the time they said they wouldn't send me anything because we didn't report to CMJ but somehow I ended up on their mailing list regardless and I received a really nice package from a woman named Leslie Miller. It had two or three copies of this sampler, which features a lot of the electronic artists Nothing was licensing at the time, including what appears to be an exclusive mix of Plaid's Abla Eedio, as well as a CD-R of The Bowling Green's One Pound Note album. That CD-R was totally cool to me because I'd never received a CD-R from a record label person, and this was a little while before it seemed like everyone could make CD-Rs. What more, it even had a track that got deleted from the US pressing due to sample clearance issues! I kept the original and made a copy for the station. Thanks Leslie, wherever you are!


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01 Squarepusher - Tequila Fish
02 Autechre - Vose In
03 Meat Beat Manifesto - Acid Again (Dub Again Remix)
04 Plaid - Undoneson
05 Plug - Cheesy (Amen Mix)
06 The Bowling Green - Think What You're Doing
07 Meat Beat Manifesto - Book Of Shadows
08 Autechre - Corc
09 Plaid - Abla Eedio (Freemix)
10 Squarepusher - Massif (Stay Strong)
11 Plug - Drum 'n' Bass For Papa
12 The Bowling Green - The Road Is A Grey Ribbon