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Black Dog | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 25, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tvt
• ASIN: B000003RG0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #267,760 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #90 in Music > Indie Music > Dance & DJ > IDM

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars please don't call it trance, February 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Bytes (Audio CD)

This album is amazing, emotional, cryptic, esoteric, polyrhythmic, jazzy, beautiful, and unique. everything, in fact that trance is not. Don't be scared off by the trance label below, it's on Warp, so you know it's gotta be good. Black dog were amazing listening techno, bytes and spanners are their greatest works (including plaid's releases IMHO). At the risk of sounding incredibly pretensious Black dog are like the Alice Coltrane of techno, Far out.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic From The Past That Is Presently Our Future, March 13, 2002

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Ubermonkey (Ft Wayne, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bytes (Audio CD)

I will say that it's by far been my favorite recording in my collection of roughly 400 CDs and 500 LPs since the first time I heard it almost nine years ago, and I'd say that's a major accomplishment. It, however, is not "definitive", because it's so unlike any other electronic release that it doesn't "define" anything except itself. That's a compliment. The majority of "electronic" music suffers from a major case of cookie-cutter-itis, and this release is a major exception. It's got all the things I love to hear in a song: uplifting melodies, harmony (yes, you heard me right. Electronic music with more than just a melody and bassline! Crazy, huh?), butt-moving complicated rythms, a few moments of just plain noise, and it manages to pull it off with a sort of "chillin' in the lounge of a space station in the year 3753" kinda feel. Simply amazing. If you're new to electronic music, don't expect to get a 4/4 in your face here. The real action in any type of music is always found between the beats, anyway. Other stuff worth checking out if you find this interesting: Derrick May "Innovator", Deltron 3030, Sun Ra "Somewhere Else", Amon Tobin, Prefuse 73, Plaid (of course), Mike+Rich "Expert Knob Twiddlers".

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Spanners, June 29, 2000

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Mr. A. Pomeroy (Wiltshire, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bytes (Audio CD)

It's hard to believe that this album was recorded and released over seven years ago, at a time when Richard James' 'Aphex Twin' psuedonym was not more definitive than 'Polygon Window, and it looked as if the future of music was The Orb or The Future Sound of London. Except for maybe the early CGI on the cover, the album hasn't dated in the slightest (the band members even have email addresses - heady stuff for 1993). To listen to, it's similar to the aforementioned 'Polygon Window' - subtle, arty ambientish techno music with meaningless titles and abstract instrumentation. At times it almost seems to veer towards 'world music', although it's hard to see how the skittery beats and unearthly music could be tied down to a single culture. In a way, this album is a landmark, at least five years ahead of its time, and an interesting insight into a music that would inspire a whole generation of Autechre-esque acts.