Following the release of the Book Of Dogma album and the reissue of Techno Playtime and The Cost Virtual EPs earlier this year, Scottish imprint Soma will be releasing an entirely remastered version Black Dog’s lost classic Temple Of Transparent Balls album, originally issued in 1993 on now defunct General Production Recordings.

This album was the follow up to the seminal Bytes. The album was famously re-released in 2002, together with Parallel, with very poor quality copy of the original artwork. For this new edition, Soma provide a completely new artwork. The album is out on 15 October.

Soma Records
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THE BLACK DOG
Book Of Dogma
SOMACD057
Soma Recordings Ltd 2007
22 Tracks. 109mins01secs

The year is 1989. Electronica is in its infancy. The rulebook is still being written. Ken Downie, Ed Handley and Andy Turner release their first EP, Age Of Slack, under the Black Dog banner. Blending classic Detroit techno and hip-hop, the trio are shaping the sound of their generation. A handful of EPs later, they get picked up by then budding Sheffield-based Warp Records and go on to release the highly influential Bytes, as Black Dog Productions, the name of their early label. The album, which is part of Warp’s seminal Artificial Intelligence series of releases, is assembled as a compilation, with the trio acting under a variety of aliases (Xeper, Balil, Atypic, Plaid, I.A.O.). Continue Reading »