Far from the cold, mechanical chill that you might feel on hearing the word ‘IDM’,  Sheffield electronic duo Plaid have always filled their albums with warmth and humanity. Ed Handley and Andy Turner have always made dance music for both brain and body, combining radical experimentalism with plaintive, beautiful melodies. And as the years have advanced, so have their production techniques - they’ve graduated from hip hop style sampling to gamelan orchestras, microtonality, and AI-enhanced composition - but that same wide-eyed sense of creativity inhabits their 11th album ‘Feorm Falorx’, a concept album documenting an imagined show on another planet, released in 2022. Come explore their sonic worlds at Sónar by Day this year.