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Adopting the common euphemism for depression as their name, The Black Dog are often credited with “inventing” the “idm” style of music, in producing a style of dance music equally enjoyable in the comfort of one’s living room. While their work was showered with praise from a great number of club DJs, the DJs themselves rarely played their tracks on the dancefloor.
The group was founded by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner, who had already been producing music under the Plaid moniker. In 1989, they were unable to find a label to back their releases and had to start their own, Black Dog Productions. Their first full-length album, Bytes, was released in 1992 on WARP Records, the label later to publish records from some of the most notable of IDM artists, such as Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, and Autechre. Their music was often produced under a number of different names, such as Close Up Over, Xeper, Atypic, I.A.O., Balil and Discordian Popes. These were often names for the different projects of the three artists.
Later on (1994), Ed and Andy broke off from Black Dog Productions, to work full-time on Plaid. Ken Downie continued working The Black Dog on his own for a while, taking it easy, later to return to music production with Richard and Martin Dust, owners of the label “Dust Science Recordings”. Since, they have released fourteen EPs and four full-length albums.
The group was founded by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner, who had already been producing music under the Plaid moniker. In 1989, they were unable to find a label to back their releases and had to start their own, Black Dog Productions. Their first full-length album, Bytes, was released in 1992 on WARP Records, the label later to publish records from some of the most notable of IDM artists, such as Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, and Autechre. Their music was often produced under a number of different names, such as Close Up Over, Xeper, Atypic, I.A.O., Balil and Discordian Popes. These were often names for the different projects of the three artists.
Later on (1994), Ed and Andy broke off from Black Dog Productions, to work full-time on Plaid. Ken Downie continued working The Black Dog on his own for a while, taking it easy, later to return to music production with Richard and Martin Dust, owners of the label “Dust Science Recordings”. Since, they have released fourteen EPs and four full-length albums.
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lil__ wrote:
I don't like Liber Dogma at all.
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Tim32 wrote:
Dada Mindstab Я люблю это!)
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ambiantotaku wrote:
respect
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Greygoo wrote:
I disagree. The banging, dystopian techno of the Liber EPs is some of my favourite music to come out this year.
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PaulSn wrote:
Everything they will ever do will be shadowed by "Music for Real Airports".
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k1mm0 wrote:
for me, 'Liber Dogma' is kinda meh.
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InterceptorZero wrote:
For an album I didn't rate all that high, these guys have been on my mind a lot.
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techno-and-more wrote:
Hello, from ca. 500 bands, 10 are characteristic for techno last.fm groups, and ... "The Black Dog" is one of those 10, see others at: http://www.last.fm/user/techno-and-more/journal
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mutefm wrote:
The new album is a grower.. which is exceptional for a techno album in these times of formulaic hits.
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TriptheLight wrote:
*LIBER NOX*
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M0D1FY wrote:
Can anyone tell me which is the correct tracklist for CD1 of 'The Book of Dogma' album? The tracklist on the back of the CD is the same as the one from the Soma records website - http://www.somarecords.com/shop/music/soma_cd57/ - but this is contradicted on almost every other website I've looked it up on. I don't know TBD well enough to identify which is the right one :S
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DCozmonaut wrote:
Liber Dogma !
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jamesusillxd wrote:
Is it just me or do thefirst few sentances of the artist biog make no sense...
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uvra wrote:
cool
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PaulSn wrote:
Probably the most creative artists around right now, together with Eulberg.
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Auland wrote:
Every listen is something new.
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gtmb wrote:
The Black Dog with some dark acid dripping techno in a guestmix for Dave Clarke’s weekly White Noise show. http://r.fm/artist/the-black-dog/
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Black_Dog_23 wrote:
Hello 2011 on Last FM
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IllumoHorizon wrote:
"Remote Viewing", "Machine Machina" and "Sudden Intake" are really tasteful. Need to get more of this stuff (Spanners).
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theleft wrote:
so damn good. i'm in love with Radio Scarecrow.
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