The Black Dog
58 releases · labels: Dust Science, Soma Records, VO45 · genres: Techno, House
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, in 1994, Ed and Andy broke off from Black Dog Productions, to work full-time on Plaid. Ken Downie continued working in 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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Top tracks
- Static Between Us (Original Mix)
- The Smile You Rehearsed (Original Mix)
- Emotional Extraction Unit (Original Mix)
- Borstal Communications (Album Mix)
- I Dare You (Album Mix)
- Nothing Ever Changes (Mixed)
- Bleak Comfort (Original Mix)
- Longest Journey Home (Sans Passport) (Original Mix)
- Trojan Horus [Part 1] (Album Mix / Remastered)
- The Decline Ov Modernism
Releases
- Psychick Youth
- Feral Grace
- Music For Real Airports - The One Escape Bar
- Music For Real Airports - Live at the Millennium Galleries
- Music For Real Airports - The Collection
- Loud Ambient EP2
- Loud Ambient 2
- Loud Ambient EP 1
- Loud Ambient
- Fragments (Remastered)
- My Brutal Life - The Ambient Mixes
- Sleep Deprivation
- Seclusion EP
- Isolation EP
- Other, Like Me
- Silenced (Remastered)
- Nybrutalism
- Music For Moore Street Substation
- My Brutal Life
- Being Brutal EP