The Plaster Origin is Accidental! The catalyst element was the access to machinery, locations and means by a wide variety of people with creative wishes that until then knew for a fact that was impossible to have independent releases in Portugal, what until then was only achieved by the Punk Movement with low "quality" recording standards to which it's music was immune, remaining audible while dirty and later becoming one of the aesthetic languages of the genre.
The initial Plaster members where placed in a Studio that only did Audio for Film works, fully equiped with analogue and digital equipment, at the time State of the Art was the infamous 8 track non-linear and non-destructive (amazing new features, toghether with Normalization) Soundscape, the (non-accessible for them) Sonic Solution Post-Production and Mastering Digital Workstation, the fantastic Sony DASH that could fit 24 digital tracks in 1/4 inch reel to reel tape and as if it wasn't enough, a second Studio that was locked and out of use for over an year.
Under layers of dust lived an impressive 2' reel 2 reel Studer tape Recorder, a 48.8.2 Soundscape desk, BBS Gates, 2 Drawmer 1960 Comp and 2 Neumann U47 Microphones.
After work, the Plaster crew practically moved to that S2 and started to have the first contact with electronic instruments not common on Rock and never had been seen in Portuguese Punkers Gear.

This studio ended up being a breeder for computer based music, were they could test the insipid synthesis technologie of emerging DAWs with standard AKAI samplers and EMU synths. This residency and free spirit brought them a colaboration with the HipHop band Micro, resulting in the recording of their first album Micro Estática.
More colaborations followed with names like Sam the Kid, Bamboo Beat, Chill Fado Live Band, G.M.S., Lwegi, Paulo Bragança and fado diva Mariza.
Thru this process a lot of experiments were going on on Plaster and their individual careers as DJ went up and their music started to present a more dance floor oriented groove, always in a laptop spirit.