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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.

The Black Dog – You Are Strange 2 & Update

Posted on 14th November 2007 in Mixes, Podcasts

The Black Dog – You Are Strange 2 Mix
1. ?o? – Autechre & The Hafler Trio – Die Stadt http://www.discogs.com/release/485665
2. 20 Jazz Funk Greats – Throbbing Gristle – Fetish Records http://www.discogs.com/release/328130
3. Suhteellinen – Pan Sonic – Blast First Petite – http://www.discogs.com/release/965576
4. Freak ‘N’ You – Matmos – FatCat Records – http://www.discogs.com/release/13035
5. Sluggin Fer Jesus – Cabaret Voltaire – Normal – http://www.discogs.com/release/186270
6. Darkware – Cloaks – Werk Discs – http://www.discogs.com/release/966770
7. Spaceape – Kode9 & SpaceApe – Hyperdub http://www.discogs.com/release/806612
8. Floods v3.1 – The Black Dog (The Bass Soldier Rework) – Soma

You Are Strange Mix 1 is still available here

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Well another month’s rolled by and we’re down to finishing the last three tracks on the album, along with a touch of mastering.

After testing out over 60 different track configs on CDR we have finally selected the 15 tracks for the album, we haven’t added any bolts just yet. We reckon another 3 weeks and we’ll be done but we’ve said that before.

Here’s another URS mix we’ve made, this one helped us get out of the habit of mixing one track into another smoothly, great if your a DJ but not always the best way to program an album and a tricky habit to get out of.