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The Black Dog
Silenced
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.date Oct-04-2005
.style Electronic
.label Dust Science Recordings
.cat.no. DUSTSND003
.source CDDA
.type Album
.quality VBRkbps 44.1hz Joint-Stereo
.size 81,7 MB
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Proper Notes:
Thanks to JFK for the original release (nice work lately guys, some
excellent releases), but we feel this album should be released as an
mp3/cue. This album is mixed, and the track transitions are seemless,
which is spoiled when each track is ripped individually. We were gonna
release this as an INT, but decided this album is too good to be left
broken. Enjoy.
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Review from themilkfactory.co.uk
The Black Dog was originally the collaborative project of Ken Downie, Ed
Handley and Andy Turner. The latter two already had released a handful
underground releases as Plaid. The first notable appearance from the
trio was on the original 1992 Artificial Intelligence compilation from
Warp, followed a few months later by the seminal album Bytes. Presented
as a compilation of artists, including Plaid, Xeper, Atypic. Balil or
I.A.O, Bytes combined classic Detroit-infused techno sound with
atmospheric electronic textures and complex rhythmic structures, at
times clearly influenced by hip-hop. This debut album, which compiled a
series of previous EPs, propelled The Black Dog right at the top of the
burgeoning British electronica movement alongside other Warp stalwarts
such as Autechre, B12 or LFO. A few months later, The Black Dog
reappeared on GRP with their first album proper, Temple Of Transparent
Balls, and confirmed the bandÆs position as one of the most visionary
acts around. The last album released as a trio, Spanners, showed a more
eclectic sound and approach as Downie, Handley and Turner expanded on
their original electronic main frame.
With Turner and Handley gone to revive Plaid, Downie was left sole in
charge of the Dog. The release of Music For Adverts (And Short Films),
barely a few months after the split, signalled a tangible new direction
for the project. Although the original techno and ambient elements still
ran throughout this album, Downie appeared to leave the complexity of
previous recordings behind and introduced a more immediate feel to his
music. Followed sporadic EPs, including one with Israeli singer Ofra
Haza, as well as countless remixes for artists as diverse as The
Creatures, Marilyn Manson and Laurent Garnier.
Ken Downie, this time with Martin and Richard Dust as full time members,
seemingly returns to the essence of the Black Dog sound and pretty much
reinvent it in the process. If recent EPs Bite Thee Back and Trojan
Horus appeared to explore a wide musical scope, from vintage techno to
dark organic ambient, Silenced is a more focused affair. Developed over
eighteen tracks in just under an hour, the running themes of this album
are that of tortured soundscapes, dark back alleys electronica and
intricate textures. Silenced snakes its way down the subconscious,
infiltrates the mind and refuses to come out. Elements of old style acid
and electro collide with more contemporary forms of electronica and
occasional Middle Eastern influences to form an extremely dense and
inspiring soundtrack. Often dark and threatening, the soundscapes
presented here serve as stunning backdrops to gentle melodies, often
developing over the course of a whole track.
The album opens with the two-parter Trojan Horus, which sets the mood
for the rest of the record. While the first part is a rather
straightforward slow-moving piece, part two introduces a more complex
sonic structure, based on hip-hop beat and vocal samples. The album then
appears to move within these boundaries, with Downie and the Dust
brothers perfectly containing each track while developing it to full
extend. Tracks such as Lam Vril, Alt/Return/Dash/Kill, Remote Viewing or
Gummi Void are sumptuous compositions in the purest Black Dog tradition
that also manage to sound extremely modern and fresh.
Silenced also revives the Black Dog tradition of having short, yet fully
formed, interludes inserted in between longer tracks, especially
referring to the Bolt series found on Spanners, with Bolt 23 Blue Screen
Ov Death, Bolt 777 Ordinary Boy and Bolt 33 Glitch & Chin. Although
lasting between thirty seven seconds and one minute and two seconds,
these three tracks appear to articulate different sections of this album
together, from the stern first section of this album to the more upbeat
second part to the closing section, providing some additional textures
to an already very consistent record.
With this first full-length outing for The Black Dog cuvΘe 2005, Ken
Downie and Martin and Richard Dust have created an impressive collection
of classic electronic moments. While not negating at any point previous
work, they comfortably manage to bring the legendary sound of The Black
Dog into the twenty-first century. The Dog is anything BUT silenced!
4.7/5
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The Black Dog - Silenced
01 The Black Dog - Trojan Horus (Part 1)
02 The Black Dog - Trojan Horus (Part 2)
03 The Black Dog - Lam Vril
04 The Black Dog - Truth Benders D.I.E
05 The Black Dog - Bolt 23 Screen ov Death
06 The Black Dog - Alt-Return-Dash-Kill
07 The Black Dog - Bolt 777 Ordinary Boy
08 The Black Dog - Drexian City R.I.D.E
09 The Black Dog - Remote Viewing
10 The Black Dog - Gummi Void
11 The Black Dog - Machine Machina
12 The Black Dog - The Stele of Revealing
13 The Black Dog - Songs For Other People
14 The Black Dog - Break Down On Lake Shore Drive
15 The Black Dog - Bolt 33 Glitch & Chin
16 The Black Dog - Sudden Intake
17 The Black Dog - 4 3s 555 (Part 1)
18 The Black Dog - 4 3s 555 (Part 2)
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58:25 min
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