the black dog
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the black dog are the first artists to feature on allez-allez who could be referred to as legends without it seeming like hyperbole. founded by ken downie, ed handley and andy turner in the 1980s they were reponsible for some of the key release in the early UK electronic music scene and with their rhythmic inventiveness and innovative approach to music became techno pioneers.
soma has recently being reissuing this long unavailable material and to celebrate the re-release of the newly remastered album 'temple of transparent balls' have given us this blistering live set recorded this year at the equally legendary sub club in glasgow to share. 
if you're about in east london this sunday then head down to the arcola theatre where steve will providing the music at the film and art screening simon and the radioactive flesh. it promises to be quiter something. more details here.
and our new home, the amersham arms, opens up its doors this weekend with a line-up that includes hot chip djs, the filthy dukes, sinden, rob da bank and shedloads more. go check it out and don't forgot our launch night next saturday the 20th october with four tet djing, they come from the stars and one more grain playing live. get advance tickets here.
posted by allez-allez at 12:37 PM
4 Comments:
Wow..
The Black Dog were so incredible, They made music that was at once soulful, innovative, exciting, and exceedingly beautiful in parts. There's shades of Detroit in there, but something uniquely British as well.
'The Temple of Transparent Balls' is great.. really idiosyncratic yet accessible. With its mix of beeps, bass, breaks and lush pads, I think they created a pretty immaculate template for future techno/garage/drum&bass/breakstep producers to look to.
That said.. I think that their genius was almost a product of creative differences.. as much as I enjoy Plaid's sound (and to some extent 'The Black Dog' as a solo entity) there's a certain tension in their earlier stuff that's inevident in their various future projects (as splendid as they certainly were).
Anyway.. FUCKING EXCELLENT MIX. Thanks!
wow. that's all i can say. i've never listened to anything like this before to be honest and i'd like to know more.. any chance of anyone having a stab at some sort of tracklist?
TRACKLISTING PLEASE!!!!
Yeah - tracklisting ! That fucked me over six times in one sitting. Nice work.
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