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Further Vexations (Remastered) – Out Now

Posted on 14th February 2025 in Releases

Our 2009 album “Further Vexations” has been remastered at Abbey Road and reissued as digital downloads, streaming, CD and a limited edition 2×12″ purple vinyl.

Our supporters over at Patreon can get the downloads free right now, and the physical objects can be ordered right now:
DustStore.com
Bandcamp

Out In The World:
Kompakt
Juno.co.uk
Juno Download
Boomkat
Bleep
Norman Records
Rough Trade
Spotify
Apple Music
Beatport
Deezer
traxsource
Amazon

Further Details:
Full details and previews at Dust Science

Further Vexations (Remastered) – February 2025

Posted on 14th January 2025 in Releases

Our 2009 album “Further Vexations”, has been remastered and recut at Abbey Road Studios, and is available to order now on digital download, CD and a very limited edition 2×12″ coloured vinyl pressing. Shipping on the 14th February 2025.

Order Now:
DustStore.com
Bandcamp

Further Vexations picks up from what was started in Radio Scarecrow, moving beyond the world of open secrets and the bemusing transmissions of number stations, to exploring the dark cynicism of Orwellian practices carried out by our Governments, institutions and corporations.

Martin Dust from tBd explained, “Our main concern was and still is the amount of personal freedoms being surrendered under the banner of “for your own safety” – CCTV, Biometrics and the World Wide Databases being the latest inventions to save us from ourselves. What is it going to take for people to wake up? How much further can the people we’ve put into power go before something finally snaps? We’ve had enough now! We believe that people have become lazy and accepting of “beige” political parties who have realised if they stand for nothing, people will fall for anything.”

10 years on, the references to George Orwell’s 1984 appear to be naive and wholly inadequate. From billion-dollar corporate entities openly mishandling our data for profit to highly targeted and manipulative political propaganda campaigns, the misuse of our data and communications is far more sophisticated and devious than originally envisaged.

The stark omens of Further Vexations are now more prophetic than ever.

Digital Dog: Further Vexations On The Download

Posted on 12th May 2009 in Releases

You can now get Further Vexations from your favourite download store:

“Further Vexations” At Your Favourite D/L Store
Beatport
Juno Download
Bleep
Soma Records
Amazon

Further Vexations Releases Reviews/Quotes

Posted on 7th May 2009 in Press

Check out all the latest reviews and quotes on our new release on this one single post, we’ll be posting the good, the bad and the ugly here for everyone to read.

If you find any reviews or postings please hit us up on Contact or post a link in the comments sections.

The Black Dog – Further Vexations Movie

Posted on 29th April 2009 in Video

The Black Dog – Further Vexations

This is a short movie we made with roughcollie.tv to promote our album and further investigate working with visual artists.

The Black Dog – Further Vexations – Released 27/04/09

Posted on 20th April 2009 in

Further Vexations is our artistic response to 21st century rat on your neighbour smokefree Britain. It is an attempt to capture and express our emotional frustrations, and the trials and tribulations of living in an un-democratic surveillance society. The seeds of nihilist despair and apathy are well and truly sown amongst the citizens of Airstrip One. We’ve helplessly watched with mounting horror, while the government trashed the country, signed away its sovereignty to Brussels (with a flourish of a specially minted silver pen), sold off precious national industries and assets at next to bargain basement prices, and indulged itself with two utterly pointless wars which it couldn’t afford. We were promised a vote. A referendum. A chance to change things but an unelected politician chancellor man decided not to bother. To say we are pissed off about it, would be an understatement.

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Purchase Further Vexations on CD or Triple 180gram Vinyl – First 100 orders from Duststore come with:

The Black Dog Live At Bozar 21/03/09 CDr. SOLD OUT

This is an exclusive 1hr live ambient set and will never be released commercially or as a free download.
Mastered By The Black Dog. Each copy signed by a member of The Black Dog. Each copy hand numbered.

Limited Triple 180gram Vinyl Edition SOLD OUT

The Triple Vinyl version is something special, pre-mastered at Dogma Towers, Mastered and Cut By Simon Francis and pressed on 180gram vinyl. Sleeve artwork from the fantastic Dust, hand screen printed, hand numbered and limited to 500 copies.

Please note that the album does NOT ship until 27/04/09 but demand will be high so we advise you get your order in sharpish.

Click to buy: https://www.duststore.com
Visit the minisite: http://www.furthervexations.com

The Black Dog – Further Vexations – Album Of The Month – Update Magazine

Posted on 30th March 2009 in News, Press

After the cerebral trampoline of last year’s Radio Scarecrow, The Black Dog humped a punishing gigging schedule which has galvanised them into a more floor-friendly follow-up, but with an underlying message attacking increasingly-Orwellian Government tactics and public complacency at how our lives are monitored and controlled. This punk-style discontent manifests in the pressure cooker grooves underpinning piledriving tech-kneesups like ‘0093’ and ‘We Are Haunted’, the mix of boiling anger in the complex rhythms and spatial beauty of the strings often recalling Underground Resistance.

Seething emotions soar in tracks like ‘Stempel’ and ‘CCTV Nation’, the pounding grooves and intertwining textures swelling into glorious meteor-storms of rafter-swinging proportions which sometimes manage to enter the realms of avant classical. ‘You’re Only SQL’ carves a monolithic acid-funk path slashed with eerie strings and ‘Tunnels Ov Set’ hammers a slo-mo industrial dub-crash soundscape which closes the album on a suitably-ominous note. The timeless Dog have produced a work of astounding vision, terrible beauty and merciless dancefloor carnage, cocking a leg to techno glory once more but squirting out possibly their most complete work yet. Not mincing words, Further Vexations ranks among the great UK electronic albums.

Further Vexations Triple 180g Vinyl

Posted on 11th March 2009 in Releases

The vinyl for Further Vexations came early this morning and is now safely stored at Dust Towers, ready to be packed when the sleeves have been hand screened and numbered. Each piece of vinyl will be packed by hand by a member of The Black Dog, the things we do for the love of vinyl 🙂

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/dustscience/sets/72157615100332882/

Further Vexations – Road Test

Posted on 27th January 2009 in News

After months of road testing the tracks and the order they should go in, 60 CDs later, we’ve finally settled with the new master for Further Vexations.