The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow



Tracklisting:
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
16 Ghost Vexations
17 Dials & Dialers 2



I love this quote from Ken Downie on Resident Advisor: "the bass is much heavier - so much so that it was making us ill working with the low frequencies for hours on end. We could only do three hours at a time on some parts."

Talk aboute suffering for your art.....they are probably infertile now.

Plastikman

downloading now...does this sound anything like lcd soundsystem? love those americans

What does the board think of "Virtual"? There are days I think it's even more essential than Orbital's "Chime" or 808 State's "Pacific".

I can upload it if anyone wants.

No it sounds nothing like lcd soundsystem

Im a fucking dildo magnet today

What does the board think of "Virtual"? There are days I think it's even more essential than Orbital's "Chime" or 808 State's "Pacific".

I can upload it if anyone wants.

The Black Dog - Detroit Vs. Sheffield[/b][/size]

The Black Dog pay tribute to Detroit with an Underground Resistance mix.

If you have any chance of moving forward, you must know where you've been. So goes the thought behind The Black Dog's nascent mix series, in which this Underground Resistance podcast is the second. Earlier last month, the Sheffield trio celebrated the work of minimal master Robert Hood, who recently returned the favor by remixing the group's "Train by the Autobahn."

As a group that has relentlessly looked forward, the dogs have earned the right to look back a little bit—in the late '80s and early '90s, their sound was most decidedly the future and still is, as Soma's recent re-release of their early work, Book of Dogma, and 2008 album Radio Scarecrow has so aptly proved. This mix and—presumably the ones that will follow—are celebrations of influence and a timely reminder that Underground Resistance still have few peers when it comes to blistering techno and hitech jazz. You can learn even more about the interstellar fugitives here.

What have you been working on recently?

We are due to remix a few tracks for Robert Hood shortly, there's also a Phil Oakey remix that's waiting for the full treatment. Work has already started on the new album, a live art/installation project with another collective and the soundtrack to 20 minute animation. We'll have the best studio tan ever at the start of 2009. We've been gigging 3 or 4 times a month to support the Radio Scarecrow release. We haven't really stopped this year and it feels good to be creative, out there meeting people and just about making the rent!

Where and how was the mix recorded?

The mix was recorded in our Sheffield studio over a period of two weeks, with each of us adding, mixing and making new edits as we went, we then jammed it across 3 laptops and recording it into Soundforge to get the final mix, it took so long as we all tried to get our favourite tracks in. It was difficult to do the track-listing as so many of the tracks are cut up and different parts are used to create new edits but the order is as close as we could get it and it was important to us to do UR justice.

Tell us about UR and the inspiration for the mix?

UR have been an influence on us in more ways than one, we've always shared a musical passion with Detroit but rather than just copying the "template" we've always tried to put our own take on the sound and send it back as a signal. UR are always changing and aren't afraid to make their moves on their own terms and bring new talent through, for that alone they'll always have us there.

In recent times when things have been getting us down (it rains a lot in Sheffield and the skies are always grey) we'd play the interview that Mad Mike did WDET radio and that would bring us back around because it was intelligent, humble and honest. We recently got a chance to meet Mike to say thanks and he was just everything we thought he would be and you can't really ask for more. We also share his view that techno is about the music, not what we look like, not what we wear and certainly not anything to do with many of the rockisms that DJs/Bands often get caught up in, fuck that!

How would you say your sound has changed from your earliest days to
your most recent work?

We've never stood still, making the same sound we made in 1992 would be pointless, as great as the Ramones were, doing that for the rest of your creative life holds no interest to any of us. We move with the times, our feelings and try to reflect that back in our music – we pour everything in.

Detroit vs. Sheffield: Who wins?

We kind figure that it's 2-2 at the moment, both have their own ways and difference should be celebrated we believe, who knows when Robert Hood gets the tracks to us, maybe we'll make it 3-2 to Sheffield [laughs].

What are you up to next?

We'll continue to support Radio Scarecrow with more gigs and then we hit the studio hard to work on the projects mentioned above, 2009 is going to be an even more productive year for The Black Dog.

How cool is this:



The Black Dog pay tribute to Detroit with an Underground Resistance mix.

How cool is this:



The Black Dog pay tribute to Detroit with an Underground Resistance mix.

Hey Bruegs, any chance of a re-up? I just ordered it from amazon marketplace, but I feel that it'll take a month to get here.

This sounds like it is right up my alley.

Bump for the curious luscious.

Fresh fish in the first post.

Thursday, 15th January 2009 The Black Dog announce new album
The Black Dog are without a doubt one of the hardest working acts in electronic music. No sooner have they released one of 2008’s best albums in Radio Scarecrow and the massive 12” Detroit vs Sheffield which featured 2 remixes from Detroit minimal grandmaster Robert Hood, they now prepare for their next album release, ready to drop on April 9th this year.

Further Vexations is a real successor to Radio Scarecrow. The thinking behind the predecessor is still very evident and with even more bite, but there’s something about Further Vexations that lends itself to the dark club atmosphere. Perhaps the recent bout of constant gigging has had its effect on the act because this one is going to be tearing up floors around the world on its release. The power of these clubbier tracks is perfectly balanced with the sort of sublime downtempo electronica that only The Black Dog do best. Further Vexations might have taken half the time to create but still manages to maintain the same degree of meticulous detail and attention as its predecessor, and, again like Radio Scarecrow, is a complete package of tracks demanding to be listened to from start to finish.

Behind the album is a dark cynicism of the Orwellian practices being carried out by the Government and the passivity of the general public at large to let this happen. Martin Dust from tBd explains, “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 for ourselves. What is it going to take for people to wake up? How much further can the people that 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.”

Further Vexations looks to rouse the sort of political attitudes that have been sorely missing from electronic music since rave’s backlash against the Criminal Justice Act in the 90’s. Martin continues, “It was these feelings coupled with visiting many different cities, playing lots of clubs and festivals, that has resulted in a pick up in pace and aggression reflexed in the tracks on Further Vexations - these are our Vexations reflecting back.”

Tracklisting:
Biomantric L-if-e
0093
Phil: Because Ov, indeed
You're Only SQL
We Are Haunted
CCTV Nation
Stempel
Northern Electronic Soul [Part 1]
Northern Electronic Soul [Part 2]
Northern Electronic Soul [Part 3]
Skin Clock
Dada Mindstab
Tunnels Ov Set
Later Vexations
Kissing Someone Else's D.O.G

Definitely looking forward to this.

Any thoughts about their earliest records? Obviously, Bytes is a classic. The only album of theirs that I actually own is Temple of Transparent Balls, which kind of sucks. Spanners is a good return, one of the essential IDM (no one likes using that term anymore but that's still what it is) longplayers of the 90s, and it's got "Utopian Dream," which is one of my favorite tracks from them.

Stone cold. There are days when it beats Bones.