The group was founded by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner. In 1989, they were unable to find a label to back their releases and had to start their own, Black Dog Productions. Their first full-length album, Bytes, was released on the 15th of March 1993. Their music was often produced under a number of different names, such as Close Up Over, Xeper, Atypic, I.A.O., Balil and the Discordian Popes. In 1995, Ed and Andy left Ken, who continued working as The Black Dog on his own for a while, releasing the solo album "Music for Adverts". With new management, and an increased vigour, Downie then teamed up with Steve 'Hotdog' Ash and Ross Knight. Though they completed over a dozen critically acclaimed remixes during this period, only one album was ever released "Unsavoury Products", which featured the talents of parisian beat poet 'Black Sifichi' on vocals. In 2001, Downie teamed up with Richard and Martin Dust, owners of the label "Dust Science Recordings". Since then, they have released four EPs and one full-length album, Silenced, on Dust Science [1], and have started to play live again. They released a single called Riphead on Soma, which will also be re-issuing the Parallel and the three Black Dog Productions EPs as 'Book of Dogma', to be released on March 26, 2007. The band are currently in the studio recording a new album for Soma Records entitled Radio Scarecrow. [2]
Discography
- 2007 Remixes 2
- 2007 Book of Dogma
- 2006 Riphead Ep
- 2006 Thee Singles
- 2005 Silenced
- 2005 The Remixes Ep
- 2005 Trojan Horus Ep
- 2005 Remote Viewing Ep
- 2005 Bite Thee Back Ep
- 2003 Genetically Modified
- 2002 Unsavoury Products
- 1996 Music for Adverts (and Short Films)
- 1995 Parallel (re-released 2003)
- 1995 Spanners
- 1993 Temple of Transparent Balls (re-released 2003)
- 1993 Bytes (reissued in 2005)
External links
- dogsquad.co.uk - official website
- dustscience.com - The Black Dog's Label
- Discogs: Black Dog Productions
- Interview (2005)
