Plug

Luke Vibert had already forged connections between trip-hop and the intelligent/ambient scene through his Wagon Christ recordings; he extended a comparable bridge to jungle and drum'n'bass via his Plug output. In 1995 and 1996, well ahead of prominent equipment enthusiasts exploring breakbeats, he issued three EPs of expansive, fragmented drill'n'bass on the U.K. imprint Rising High. The Plug album Drum'n'bass for Papa surfaced on Blue Planet toward the end of 1996. The following year, Nothing—the Interscope-backed imprint led by Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor—issued an American edition of that album, while Vibert also reworked a NIN single. Possibly wary of wider U.S. exposure, he revived the Wagon Christ moniker in 1998. Plug resurfaced in 2012 when Vibert assembled archival 1996 material and placed it on Ninja Tune under the title Back on Time. [See Also: Wagon Christ, Luke Vibert, Amen Andrews, Kerrier District] ~ John Bush