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The Black Dog – Fact Interview

Posted on 20th March 2008 in Press

The Black Dog

There’s a new interview up on FACT, one where I seem to swear a lot 🙂 Click Here?

Radio Scarecrow Reviews/Quotes/News

Posted on 6th March 2008 in News, Press

Reviews and Quotes are starting to come back in for Radio Scarecrow, so we thought we’d share what’s coming in with the dogsquad – we don’t have a massive PR machine and do much of the PR ourselves with Don from Soma. We’ll be adding to this thread as things come in.

DJ Magazine – Album Of The Month
The Black Dog – Radio Scarecrow – Soma
If any one UK outfit was responsible for taking the Detroitian templates and blending ? rather than bastardising ? their boundaries into something genuinely innovative, then that would be The Black Dog. Remaining as invigorating as ever, visionary early-?90s works like ?Temple of Transparent Balls? and ?Spanners? might have been tagged ?intelligent techno? but their cutting edges bled influences into d&b, ambient and electronica. Now a reshaped trio (Ed Handley and Andy Turner long departed to continue their Plaid project), original member Ken Downie and kindred underground spirits Martin and Richard Dust have spent three years labouring on this latest sonic masterpiece.

Posted on 28th February 2008 in News

1. Space Bird – System 7 – A-Wave Records
2. Reykjavik – Function – Sandwell District
3. Powers Of Ten – Portable – Sud Electronic
4. Convoy – Marlow – Black Acre Records
5. Trust – Luca Bacchetti – Wagon Repair
6. In The Trees (C2 Remix) – Faze Action – K7
7. You Are Here – Nathan Fake – Border Community
8. Floods – The Black Dog – Soma
9. Kout – Jakes – Hench
10. 2 Steps Back – Jakes – Hench

New Single – Set To Receive – Soma 240 17/03/08

Posted on 19th February 2008 in Releases

Set To Receive

Set To Receive EP
A. Set To Receive
B1. EVP Echoes
B2. Short Wave Lies [Live]

Listen Here

New Single released on 17/03/08 and the final tracks to be taken for the forthcoming album Radio Scarecrow. Already getting charted and played by the like of Louis Osbourne, Laurent Garnier and Claude Young.

Laurent Garnier ? Black Dog as good as ever.

Claude Young ? The Black Dog has done it again! Deep funky electronics presented by the masters of the game. This release is definitely something for the mind body and soul. 10/10?

Denise Breidbach ? Great release, all three tracks are massive ?hits?!!! Absolutely stunning. 10/10?

Radio Scarecrow Site Launched

Posted on 19th February 2008 in News, Releases

tBd – Burn The Yellow Brick Road

Posted on 8th February 2008 in Press

Nowhere

This is the second part of the interview we did with Jonty Skrufff about the Radio Scarecrow and various other bits and bobs.

1. Starting with the press release: it says ?since the release of Silenced in October 2005 The Black Dog have been working delicately on its successor?: ?working delicately? is an unusual phrase: why ?delicate?: what does the term mean in practical terms?

[Martin] It doesn?t seem that unusual to me, music and the whole creative process is delicate by its very nature. The slightest thing can throw it completely off, even if you are making the most violent kind of music. This is why we created special mixes

[Ken] To me, it means “carefully crafted” and hand stitched with love. This was not the time to say “fuck it, that will do”. A lot of extra tweaking beyond the call of duty went into the album. It took six months to put the tracks into their correct (and final) order, for instance.

[Martin] Jesus, I still have 67 cdr?s in the car with all the different tracks and track orders on them, that was a real quest but it?s something that you have to do if you love music. It has to be right.

Posted on 17th January 2008 in Press, Releases

Radio Scarecrow

Since the release of Silenced in October 2005 The Black Dog have been working delicately on its successor. Two years in the making and the first album to be completed in their new Sheffield Lab.

Radio Scarecrow has been over two years in the making, constantly developing and building, culminating in a masterpiece work that flows delightfully and hits hard. A true progression on Silenced, the trio are keen to note ?the beats are faster and the bass is much heavier ? so much so that it was making us ill working with the low frequencies for hours on end, we could only do 3 hours at a time on some parts?.

Posted on 12th January 2008 in Mixes, Podcasts

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‘The Vault’ turns 13 years old this month!

For this year’s annual celebration, I will be airing an exclusive set by THE BLACK DOG. I’ll also be taking a trip down memory lane and playing some of the classic tracks that got me hooked on techno.

The show will air on January 16, 2008 at 9:30pm (GMT -5:00) Eastern US Time. Listen live at www.wesufm.org

Streams

Windows

http://www.wesleyan.edu/liveradio/wesu-low.asx

iTunes
http://radio.wesleyan.edu:8000/listen.pls