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...specialty, Ted J. Kaptchuk, OMD, is, in a word, unconventional. Poised for a professional, intellectual interview at this Harvard Medical School (HMS) assistant professor’s home, I’m surprised when a young, sleepy-eyed boy answers the door. A bearded man with a black beret, plaid shirt and short ponytail—the man who’s asked me to please call him Ted—follows his son into the foyer. “Take off your shoes and come on in,” he says...

Author: By Cornelia L. Griggs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Herbal Essence | 4/25/2002 | See Source »

...hours of trying to dance haphazardly to implosive quasi-funk is enough for a day, which is why Plaid garnered the most cheers and excitement. Besides their relative fame, as former members of the Black Dog—a pioneering techno outfit—and as one of the Warp label’s most acclaimed artists, Plaid throw all pretensions out the door. Their music is quirky and experimental, even resembling some of the insectile funk and robo-talk that had preceded them. Yet it’s a perfectly logical extension of the Detroit techno, electro...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plaid’s Music Gets You Twisted Up | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...Plaid clearly know this, and their entrance was well appreciated, if a bit underwhelming to these eyes. Rather than tuning instruments or hyping the crowd, they stayed true to the geeky stereotype and hooked up their laptops. The performance that followed was surprisingly high-octane, considering their poignant and wonderfully nuanced records. Sheathed in Plaid’s trademark heavenly synths, the funk came like a double shot of adrenaline and a breath of fresh air. The biggest response, other than to Mira dropping a booty ghetto-tech track at the end of her set, was the ominous...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plaid’s Music Gets You Twisted Up | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...only the previous performances hadn’t been so physically and mentally tiring; even at their best and most entertaining, Plaid almost sounded superfluous. And unlike Mira Calix, whose DJ set was alluring in its egoless focus on the music itself, Plaid themselves seemed extraneous. The most fascinating aspect of the artists’ presence onstage was the automated robot camera filming them as they twiddled knobs and rubbed their touchpads. Such is the dilemma of this music; with few exceptions, it still works best on record—whether in the comfort of a bedroom or the shuddering...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plaid’s Music Gets You Twisted Up | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

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Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plaid’s Music Gets You Twisted Up | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

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