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The Black Dog
UK electronic group
Formed in 1989
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The Black Dog is a British electronic music group, founded in 1989 by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner. The group are considered pioneering figures of techno's ruminative "home-listening" aesthetic in the early 1990s.
Following several self-released EPs, the group signed to Warp Records in 1993 and released albums such as Bytes (1993) and Spanners (1995). In 1995, Handley and Turner departed to work on their spin-off project Plaid. Downie continued recording under the band name The Black Dog until his death in 2025, with Richard and Martin Dust joining. The band's early EPs were collected on the 2007 compilation Book of Dogma.
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The Black Dog était à l'origine un trio de producteurs anglais de musique électronique, formé de Ken Downie (1966-2025), Ed Handley et Andy Turner, également connus à l'époque sous le nom de Black Dog Productions. Le groupe s'est formé à partir d'une petite annonce de Ken Downie.
Après le départ de Ed Handley et Andy Turner (produisant en duo sous le nom de Plaid), Ken Downie a poursuivi par intermittence le projet Black Dog avec différents artistes pour finalement revenir sur le devant de la scène avec une série de publications sur le label Dust Science Recordings, dans une formation l'associant aux deux fondateurs du label, Martin et Richard Dust.
Le nom du groupe a été choisi par Ken Downie en référence au dieu funéraire égyptien Anubis.
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Discography
Albums
- 1993 Temple of Transparent Balls
- 1995 Spanners
- 1996 Music for Adverts (And Short Films)
- 2002 Unsavoury Products
- 2005 Silenced
- 2008 Radio Scarecrow
- 2009 Further Vexations
- 2010 Music for Real Airports
- 2011 Liber Dogma
- 2013 Tranklements
- 2015 Neither/Neither
- 2018 Black Daisy Wheel
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- 2018 Post -Truth
- 2019 Conspiracy Tapes RMX Destruction Day
- 2020 Fragments
- 2021 Music for Photographers
- 2022 Brutal Five To One Mix V2
- 2023 Music for Airport Lounges
- 2023 The Grey Album
- 2023 My Brutal Life
- 2023 Music For Moore Street Substation
- 2024 Other, Like Me
- 2024 Sleep Deprivation
- 2025 My Brutal Life 2
- 2025 The Black Dog Presents Sleep Deprivation: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
- 2025 My Brutal Life: Ambient Mixes Box Set
- 2025 Loud Ambient
- 2025 The Black Dog Presents Sleep Deprivation: Greatest Hits, Vol. 3
- 2026 Loud Ambient 2
- 2026 Music for Real Airports: The One Escape Bar
- 2026 Feral Grace
- 2026 Psychick Youth
EPs
- 1989 Age of Slack EP
- 1990 The Black Dog EP
- 1991 Parallel Squelch
- 1992 Vanttool
- 1992 Black Dog Productions E.P.
- 1996 SayonaLaLa
- 1998 Plan V vs. Black Dog
- 2005 Bite Thee Back EP
- 2005 Trojan Horus
- 2005 Remote Viewing
- 2006 Riphead EP
- 2007 Techno Playtime EP
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- 2008 Detroit vs. Sheffield
- 2009 Vexing EP
- 2009 We Are Sheffield EP
- 2010 Thee Lounge EP
- 2010 Subject to Delays EP
- 2011 Liber 353 {Book Ov Law}
- 2013 The Return Ov Bleep
- 2013 Darkhaus, Volume 1
- 2014 Sound of Sheffield, Volume 1
- 2014 Sound of Sheffield, Volume 2
- 2014 Werk + Play EP
- 2014 Exhibit 1 & 2
- 2014 Sound of Sheffield, Volume 3
- 2014 Sound of Sheffield, Volume 4
- 2015 Very Extended Play
- 2018 Hoaxer EP1
- 2018 Hoaxer EP2
- 2018 Hoaxer EP3
- 2018 Hoaxer EP4
- 2018 Thee Lounge EP
- 2020 Allegory 1 [Red]
- 2020 Allegory 2 [Green]
- 2020 Allegory 3 [Blue]
- 2020 Further Fragments
- 2021 Dubs: Volume 1 (Sheffield)
- 2021 Dubs: Volume 2 (Brutal)
- 2021 Dubs: Volume 3 (Construction)
- 2022 Brutal Minimalism EP
- 2022 Concrete Reasoning EP
- 2022 Fighting Modernism EP
- 2022 Dubs: Volume 4 (Suburbia)
- 2022 Black EP
- 2023 Music for Dead Airports
- 2023 The White EP
- 2023 The Reproduce EP
- 2023 Being Brutal EP