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Bytes & Spanners (They’re Back!)

Posted on 15th June 2023 in Releases

Bytes & Spanners – two fan favourites that we’ve endured endless questions about over the years.

Finally, they’ve been lovingly remastered and repressed with some tasty new vinyl cuts. If you’d like a little piece of our history, go get your order in now. They’ll ship on the 4th of August 2023.

Bytes
The third album in the Artificial Intelligence series, Bytes was originally released in 1993 and this reissue marks the 30th anniversary. Black Dog Productions were Ed Handley, Andy Turner and Ken Downie. For this record, Handley, Turner and Downie appear under various guises: Atypic, Balil, I.A.O, Close Up Over, Xeper, Discordian Popes and Plaid.

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Spanners
Originally released in 1995, Spanners is the second album from The Black Dog and their first for Warp Records. In 2017 it was selected by Pitchfork as one of ‘The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time’. The reissue will be the first time the vinyl is available since its original pressing in 1995. After this release the original trio of Ed Handley, Andy Turner and Ken Downie went their separate ways – Handley and Turner formed Plaid, whilst Downie carried on with The Black Dog name, initially by himself, and latterly with the assistance of brothers Martin and Richard Dust.

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