the black dog question

are any tracks produced under "the black dog" or does the moniker serve purely to release psuedo-compilations?

according to discogs bytes is "black dog productions" and is a compilation of sorts, but everything else is just "the black dog" and everything is tagged as such. is this right?

total nub to the black dog and the moniker is confusing me.

Most is by "The Black Dog". They've said in interviews that Bytes seems like a compilation, as they did they tracks individually among the 3 of them, but it's really just the first Black Dog album. only other thing named under Black Dog Productions was the Black Dog Productions EP on Rising High which was not named by their choice. Rising High was just trying to capitalize on the Black Dog name even though it was done under the Balil and Atypic artist aliases.

  On 8/5/2011 at 12:59 AM, AcrossCanyons said:

according to discogs bytes is "black dog productions" and is a compilation of sorts, but everything else is just "the black dog" and everything is tagged as such. is this right?

 

total nub to the black dog and the moniker is confusing me.

they only called it Black Dog Productions because they were already signed to GPR. so was purely for contractual reasons.

Black Dog Productions was already the name of their own label which they started up cos nobody would sign them, so they just used that.

it is the first Black Dog album like SPD said. and is only considered a compilation because they would work on tracks individually, hence the different pseudonyms/alias's, and then brought a bunch together for the album, basically.

  On 8/5/2011 at 12:54 AM, AcrossCanyons said:

are any tracks produced under "the black dog" or does the moniker serve purely to release psuedo-compilations?

everything by The Black Dog up til 1996 was by Downie/Handley/Turner, in some form or another, either individually, or by Ed&Andy.

everything else since has been by Downie and various other people.

Handley/Turner (Plaid) left The Black Dog in 1995.

thanks a lot guys. i was struggling to understand this for some reason.