THE BLACK DOG
Radio Scarecrow
SOMACD67
Soma Quality Recordings 2008
17 Tracks. 68mins57secs

Since The Black Dog has become a fully functioning tri-headed cell again, it has delivered new and reconditioned material with insistent regularity, sourcing in the beast’s rich past the necessary fuel to move forward and adapt its visionary electronica to a different era through a series of classic EPs and the underrated 2005 Silenced album, while some of the long unavailable back catalogue dating back from the original Black Dog days got dusted off and polished to once again spread their wings and regain their .

Radio Scarecrow is a much more ambitious and confident affair than its predecessor as Ken Downie and brothers Richard and Martin Dust move away from the introvert ambient textures of Silenced and venture into more substantial terrains. Continue Reading »

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The legendary Black Dog are back with a new album, Radio Scarecrow, released on Soma Recordings on 7 April. Two years in the making, Radio Scarecrow is the follow up to the mighty fine Silenced album, which was Ken Downie’s first full length with Martin and Richard Dust.

Talking about the album, the band said ‘the beats are faster and the bass is much’ and is also said to contain embedded coded messages and curses. More information about the album is due to be made available via a dedicated website imminently. Track listing as follow:

1. Transmission Start
2. Train By The Autobahn (Part 1)
3. Train By The Autobahn (Part 2)
4. Riphead v9
5. UV Sine
6. …Short Wave Lies
7. Siiiipher
8. Digital Poacher
9. Coda
10. Set To Receive
11. EVP Echoes
12. Floods v3.9
13. Beep
14. Witches Ov
15. Dials & Dialers 1
16. Ghost Vexations
17. Dials & Dialers 2

The album follows a string of re-releases of early Black Dog material released during their collaboration with General Production Recording and reissue by Soma.

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THE BLACK DOG
Temple Of Transparent Balls
SOMACD063
GPR 1993 / Soma Quality Recordings 2007
11 Tracks. 62mins09secs

Temple Of Transparent Balls was originally released on General Production Recordings (GPR) a few months after the seminal Bytes (1993, Warp), and was followed a couple of years later by Parallel, which collected three of the band’s early EPs. Following the demise of the label in 1996, original copies of both albums became very difficult to track down. They were both reissued in 2002, but the poor quality of the artwork likened them to cheap bootlegs, making this a long awaited re-release.

Earlier this year, Scottish imprint Soma Quality Recordings released Book Of Dogma, a double album collecting Parallel and a handful of other early EPs, all in full remastered glory. Now, Temple Of Transparent Balls gets the same treatment. Continue Reading »

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