Spanners

Black Dog | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 25, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B000002HJ0
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #232,095 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Raxmus

2. Barbola Work

3. Psil Cosyin

4. Chase the Manhattan

5. Bolt 3

6. Tahr

7. Bolt 4

8. Further Harm

9. Nommo

10. Pot Noddle

11. Bolt 6

12. End of Time

13. Utopian Dream

14. Frisbee Skip

15. Chesh

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars essential, February 9, 2000

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Giuseppe A. Paleologo "gappy" (Riverdale, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spanners (Audio CD)

This is the best work of Black Dog, and Black Dog truly is one of of the best electronica-techno-ambient-you-name-it acts of the past decade. They were in many ways precursors of Autechre in exploring polyrythms. Also, they have great compositional skills: their melodies and loops are never trivial, a quality that has been preserved in the CDs of Plaid. There are quotations and influences of middle eastern music soul, folk and previous electronica (sampled voices a la Orb and Eno), but they are never obstrusive: this is original music, not a danceable repackaging of some ethnic tape recorded in Central Africa. What is unique to BD is that their are multifaceted but still having a unique identity. For example there is a well definite "Autechre sound", which is always very consistent, and the same holds for Seefeel, or Boards of Canada, or Squarepusher; in all these cases excellent music. But in my humble opinion only AFX and Black Dog/Plaid and Richard D. James are able to span over such a wide palette of styles without losing their identity or "selling out". Only because of this, I would recommend this album to any electronica fan.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I can't believe someone let this go out of print., November 5, 2001

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Doolittle (Portland, Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spanners (Audio CD)

the black dog are sort of unique in that their sound is absolutely accessible and yet still interesting. their technique of layering arabic rhythms may be experimental in approach but the end result is a sound that is easily understood, heard and felt. that's the beauty of the black dog and this album, their best work. they simply make complex music that is first and foremost...beautiful. the stand-out track is "psilcoysin" which sounds like a thousand musical sidewinders weaving in and out of each other. by the end, you should be hypnotized with your mouth agape. get a used copy if you can.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars mind blown!, January 10, 2006

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R. Haught (Hazelwood, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spanners (Audio CD)

If your a music geek and particularly an electronic music fan this is an absolute must have! There arent many out there, get one while you can. Before hearing this I though BOC's MHTRTC was the greatest electronic album, it has now been pushed to second place.