The Black Dog discussion

I can't get enough of these people. Over these past weeks I have been taking a deep dive into their discog again and they have some of my fav records of all time. Spanners takes the cake with Silenced as a close second. I love all of these projects so much. Music for adverts is defo the most underrated one of them all.

What is your favorite?

What is your least favorite?

What do you love or hate about their music?

RE: Spanners

  On 1/12/2020 at 12:35 AM, NewSchoolScience said:

The best part of this album is from 0:00 to 75:40

FFT

Newborn - Elbow (bitten by the black dog rmx). Prob my favorite track period. I don’t think it’s avail in YouTube as I can’t find it...

  On 1/16/2020 at 12:15 AM, aencre said:

I’m definitely a Transparent Balls man.

i like how you can see a youtube time scrubber on the album cover in post-truth and they have the greatest twitter of all time

i want to see what Ken and the later members do with the project after the greatest idm act of all time left it

The released a new album today called fragments: 
https://duststoredigital.com/album/fragments

Great! Thanks for the tip. I've been a huge fan since "Spanners", but I was obsessed with "Liber Dogma" and this past winter I had "Conspiracy Tapes Live" and "Conspiracy Tapes RMX" on a loop. 

Looking forward to digging into this and the follow-up in a month! 

Pretty good album imo, not that huge into minimal techno since i feel like it sounds a bit derivative and too simple at times but i can appreciate this

Listening now, and generally think it's pretty good.  Certainly nice background music.

Clicked with me just now, reallllly into this. Bought the CD to support them

Really remarkable how the opening of "Constructivist" sounds a lot like the opening of Autechre's "latentcall" from elseq 4. 

The Black Dog is one of those weird cases (and I have many such cases) where they've produced one of my all time favourite trax that I've listened to hundreds of times (Otaku) but I've never listened to one of their albums

  On 11/8/2020 at 9:08 PM, Cryptowen said:

The Black Dog is one of those weird cases (and I have many such cases) where they've produced one of my all time favourite trax that I've listened to hundreds of times (Otaku) but I've never listened to one of their albums

Spanners. Now.

  On 11/10/2020 at 4:33 AM, Upset man said:

 

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Love that version.

Been listening to Fragments lately, great stuff.

Great album! This is grabbing me môre than their last few projects. They also said this had been their highest and fastest selling album in recent memory so i am happy for them

  On 11/10/2020 at 11:14 PM, thumbass said:

Great album! This is grabbing me môre than their last few projects. They also said this had been their highest and fastest selling album in recent memory so i am happy for them

Totally echo these sentiments. This is the first Black Dog album that has floored me in a long time. Porn Shop is a gem, isn’t it?

  On 11/17/2020 at 12:09 AM, Extralife said:

Totally echo these sentiments. This is the first Black Dog album that has floored me in a long time. Porn Shop is a gem, isn’t it?

Porn shop is great stuff, basically like every track on here

On my first listen of Fragments rn, and loving it already. This is ace from the first second!

Edit: Wow! "Black Smoke"! 

Radio Scarecrow and Further Vexations are very good of their recent (oh wtf it's over a decade already) output. Some fillers, but the best tracks are amazing. I could listen to "Skin clock" 1000 times and not be tired of it.

"Cognitive Dissonance" of Post-Truth is such a freaking belter, too. One of my favorite tracks in recent history by any artist. Play it loud, and the sun just keeps on rising, again and again.

I never listened to PostTruth. I read some grumpy comments about how it sounded like old musicians tried to keep up with the new trends and that the old TBD sounds were completely missing. But perhaps I should give it a spin.

Post-Plaid Blag Dog always a bit hit or miss for me. But when they hit, they really hit.

Fav album probably Tranklements (sp?) actually.

  On 11/20/2020 at 1:57 PM, Extralife said:

Post-Plaid Blag Dog always a bit hit or miss for me. But when they hit, they really hit.

Yeah, for me too; most of their albums are a bit of a mixed bag, but there are always some stellar numbers sprinkled across them.

And the new one actually seems pretty cohesive so far, got a nice flow to it too.

  On 11/20/2020 at 1:57 PM, Extralife said:

Fav album probably Tranklements (sp?) actually.

Hm, I never got into that one cause it seemed especially ragtag. Will try again.