The Black Dog | |
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| Also known as | Echo Mike, Close Up Over, Xeper, Atypic, I.A.O., Balil, the Discordian Popes |
| Origin | Sheffield, England |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 1989–1995, 2005–present |
| Labels | Soma, Dust Science, Warp, GPR, Black Dog Productions, BMG, Sire |
| Members | Ken Downie Martin Dust Richard Dust |
| Past members | Andy Turner Ed Handley Steve Ash Ross Knight |
The Black Dog is a British electronic music group, founded in 1989 by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner.[1][2] The group are considered pioneering figures of techno's ruminative "home-listening" aesthetic in the early 1990s.[3][4]
Following several self-released EPs, the group signed to Warp Records in 1993 and released albums such as Bytes (1993) and Spanners (1995). In 1995, Handley and Turner departed to work on their spin-off project Plaid. Downie continued recording under the band name The Black Dog, with Richard and Martin Dust joining. The band's early EPs were collected on the 2007 compilation Book of Dogma.