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Music For Real Airports – Repress Shipping Now

Posted on 20th January 2023 in Releases

The 2023 pressing of Music For Real Airports from Dust Science is shipping now!

We’ve got a lovely triple-vinyl cut from Air Studios and a very special cassette, exclusively from DustStore and our Bandcamp page. Vinyl, CD and downloads will be available from all the usual culprits.

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Music For Dead Airports – Out Now

Posted on 6th January 2023 in Releases

Our new EP, Music For Dead Airports, is available now from DustStore.com, Bandcamp and all the usual streaming and download services.

Supporter Downloads
As always, our supporters on Patreon can download this release right now. For the price of a nice beer each month, you can get this and loads more downloads too:
https://www.patreon.com/theblackdogma

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Music For Dead Airports – Coming 6th January 2023

Posted on 20th December 2022 in Releases

To celebrate the re-issue of “Music For Real Airports” on Dust Science, we’ve created a brand new EP, this time focusing on local efforts to bring air travel to the locals around our hometown of Sheffield.

“The Black Dog present four tracks written in Sheffield airports, car parks and on the land where both once stood, channelling what should have been, instead of the feverish nightmares they became. Once again we find ourselves reflecting on the difference and why it has to be so.

Sheffield has a terrible history with airports, both attempts have now failed. Sheffield City Airport was first proposed in 1968, but it wouldn’t open until 1997. Even the low-cost flight revolution couldn’t save it, the business model was based on high-fare short-hop journeys. To make matters worse, many of the aircraft operated by the low-cost providers couldn’t actually land at the airport. The last flight left in 2002. The airport was later sold for a very controversial £1.

Doncaster Sheffield Airport, otherwise known as Robin Hood Airport, opened in 2005 and boasted a longer runway, suitable for much bigger aircraft. It managed to attract a few low-budget operators until Flybe and Wizz Air announced they’d be terminating all their flights, with the final one leaving on the 5th of November 2022.”

Released 6th of January 2023

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Music For Real Airports – Repress On Dust Science

Posted on 2nd December 2022 in Releases

Our 2010 album “Music For Real Airports” has been re-pressed and re-issued on Dust Science. We have a lovely limited edition package comprising of 3 x 12″ records, pressed on 180g heavy-weight vinyl, using brand new, great-sounding lacquers from Air Studios. Along with this, we’ve also re-pressed the CD and got a tasty special edition cassette.

Released on the 20th of January 2023, pre-order at:
DustStore.com
Bandcamp

Music for Real Airports is a multimedia art project and album by electronic musicians The Black Dog and interactive artists Human. It is a response to the reality and experience of airports and air travel. It’s also a contemporary reply to Brian Eno’s idealistic ambient works from the 1970s.

The Intent
Airports are important and revealing. They are dystopian microcosms of a possible future society. The necessity of safety requires that they be systems of human control which only elevate the stress of their transient occupiers. Airports promise travel, exploration and excitement but endlessly break that promise with their stale, tedious pressure. They are intense and overwhelming environments. Anyone who travels by air will have been puzzled by the way that airports tend to reduce us to worthless pink blobs of flesh, the human equivalent of the bags on the conveyor belt. Yet despite the frustration of being in that atmosphere, some of the best aspects of human nature are revealed, alongside some of the very worst.

Airports make for great “people-watching”. Airports have some of the glossiest surfaces in modern culture but the fear underneath remains. Unlike Eno’s Music for Airports, this is not an album to be used by airport authorities to pacify their customers. It’s not a utilitarian accompaniment to airports, in the sense of reinforcing the false utopia and fake idealism of air travel.

The Album
The resulting album is bittersweet, enveloping and engaging the listener. It is ambient in tone but highly focused. This is not sonic mush, nor is it adolescent noise. Much of the raw material was made in airports over a three-year period. While on tour, The Black Dog made 200 hours of field recordings, much of which was processed and combined with new music in the airport itself, waiting for the next flight. This vast archive was slowly distilled into a set of particularly evocative pieces of music. Composed in large degree of methodical drones, there is little in the way of beats until halfway through – yet rhythm is plentiful within the buzzing synthetic warmth.

This record is not necessarily a comfortable listen, it captures the spectrum of emotions stirred by airports. There may be tension and disappointment, but there is also romance and excitement.

No Bounds, Heeley Swimming Pool, Sheffield – 13/10/2019

Posted on 5th October 2019 in Gigs

An unusual pair of live gigs coming up this week, Heeley Baths in Sheffield for a “deep, immersive listening experience”!

“We are proud to present two unique immersive deep ambient performances at Heeley Swimming Pool with The Black Dog. We have commissioned Sheffield’s legendary techno pioneers and WARP records veterans to do two performances in the pool area while you, the audience swims in the pool, guided through a deep listening journey under mood lighting and sonic mastery. As part of our focus on the intersection of well being, science, technology and music we are slowing the pace of Sunday evening with this perfect way to end the week and to end the festival. Each Session will be 30 minutes long and will never be repeated. Come and truly be in the moment with The Black Dog (Live) in Heeley Pool!”

Session 1:
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Session 2:
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No Bounds Festival 2019
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