1. DJ Bone - No Sleep - Sect
2. Los Hermanos - Traditions & Concepts - Submerge
3. Gas - Nah Und Fern - Kompact
4. X102 - Titan EP - Tresor
5. Plej - Home Is Where The Heart - Exceptional
6. Bitcrush - Shimmer & Fade - N5
7. Nurse With Wound - Huffin’ Rag Blues - United Jnana
8. Elec PT1 - Bunker 3079 - Bunker
9. Arpanet - Inertial Frame - Record Makers
10. Dave Gahan - Saw Something - Mute
Dog Bites Back[The Black Dog]: “Every human is capable of feeling a whole heap of emotions, but so little contemporary music seems to address them.”
[DJ Magazine]: So can ‘Music For Adverts’ address this heap of emotions? Especially when many of the tracks are very short (the tribal ambiance of ‘Harpo’ is a mere 0:40, whereas the penultimate blipvert ‘Wot’ clocks in at just 0:34). Why is this, do you get bored easily? Or did you have to edit out one hundred other ideas to fit 20 on one album?
“The ’short tracks’ are an attempt to show that you can have a short simple piece of music that will communicate Itself fully within 38 seconds. About the length of an average advert. Too many people stretch their Ideas out Into boring fifteen minute megamixes. I prefer not to. As David Byrne says In ‘Psycho Killer’ by Talking Heads: ‘Say something once, why say it again?’.
This is an interview we did for Beats magazine early this year. Enjoy.
Back From mastering and being pressed, watch out for the new 12″ out on Soma soon, tracklisting is as follows:
A1. Train By The Autobahn (DJ ReMix) - Robert Hood
A2. Train By The Autobahn [Part 3] - The Black Dog
B1. Train By The Autobahn (8 Mile ReMix) - Robert Hood
B2. Siiiipher (Forgemaster ReMix) - The Bass Soldier
1. Bounce - Mark Broom - 2020 Vision
March 14-16 - Bloc Weekend - Camber Sands
March 21 - Kingpin - Bristol
April 3 - H’s - Texas
April 18 - Secret Location - Sheffield
April 25 - Pressure - Glasgow
April 26 - Venetian Industries - Venice, Italy
May 3 - Lev Festival - Spain
May 30 - Club Danzoo - Madrid, Spain
June 6 - Studio 80 - Amsterdam
June 19 - Day Off For Soma’s Party @ La Terrrazza
June 21 - Sonar - Barcelona, Spain
June 27 - Holodeck - Cardiff
June 28 - Glastonbury
July 12 - T In The Park - Slam Tent - Glasgow
July 27 - Ten Days Off - Vooruit, Ghent
Sept 13 - Berghain - Berlin
Nov 7 - The Loft - Barcelona - Spain
More dates and links being added as we go
This is a remix we are working on for Slam, the track is called Azure and this is the first time we’ve played it out - Slam still haven’t heard it cos it’s not finished yet.
This is an interview we did with our friends in Glasgow from EQtv, well worth bookmarking and supporting these guys. They work tirelessly and everytime we’ve visited Glasgow over the last 2yrs they are always there, busy filming and interviewing everyone they can, supporting the scene - props due.
Check EQtv out here CLICK
iPod version (15.8 MB)
This is a short teaser video we made from footage shot in Detroit & Sheffield for our new 12″ due on the 22nd of Sept featuring tBd, Rob Hood and The Bass Soldier. It’s a Quicktime movie, so you’ll need the player installed and it’s also 15meg, so it may take a while to start, enjoy.
Get Quicktime or check out the low-res version at YouTube
Yes the bass was that loud.
[Eternity]: After deciphering a crazed message on my answering machine from Mr Mark EG I deduced that my mission was to interview a legend of the Techno underworld for Eternity. Interviews are funny things, you never quite know what to expect and when the subject of your interrogation is Ken Downie, a.k.a. The Black Dog, you’re certainly ready for anything.
The Black Dog is one of the most colourful characters you could hope to find within the murky depths of the underground scene. His background and beliefs are as rich and unique as his mind-blowing brand of progressive ambience. Ken Downie, the founder member and “genuine discordian pope” has gone from strawberry picker, to sailor, to computer hacker, to renowned music maker. Although he is often regarded as a true cyberpunk artist, he describes himself as “just a scruffy sod, with a few modems and computers” and regards The Black Dog as a flexible creative vehicle “in a multimedian sort of way”.
This is an hour long set we did at an afterparty after a gig, it mainly focuses on tracks we’ve remixed or had remixed for us.
1. Bozzwell - The Woods (In The Woods Mix By The Black Dog) - Society
2. The Black Dog - D.O.G. Style (The Black Dog’s Late Night Porn Mix) - Dust Science
3. The Black Dog - Alt/Dash/Return/Kill (Remixed by Derailleur) - Dust Science
4. Orlando Voorn - Alice (The Black Dog Mix) - cynet:media
5. Vector Lovers - Hush (Bitten By The Black Dog) - Soma Quality Recordings
6. Claude Young - Electronic Dissident 2 (Bitten Hard by The Black Dog) - Dust Science
7. UB313 - Q (The Black Dog Bitez Down On Beatz And Bleepz Mixx) - Fortune8
8. Rubens - Breaking Into Smile (Dog Style Remix) - Herb Recordings
9. Derailleur - Cognate (Bitten Deep By The Black Dog) - Varial
10. The Black Dog - Alt/Dash/Return/Kill (Live at Fuse, Belgium, 2007) - Dust Science
11. The Black Dog - Machine Machina (Remixed by Vector Lovers) - Dust Science
12. The Black Dog - Evoke (Carl Taylor Remix) - Dust Science
13. Bozzwell - The Woods (In The Woods Mix By The Black Dog) - Society