The Black Dog (band)

The Black Dog
Also known asEcho Mike, Close Up Over, Xeper, Atypic, I.A.O., Balil, the Discordian Popes
OriginSheffield, England
Genres
Years active1989–1995, 2005–present
LabelsSoma, Dust Science, Warp, GPR, Black Dog Productions, BMG, Sire
MembersKen Downie
Martin Dust
Richard Dust
Past membersAndy 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.

  1. ^ Black dog biography on NME.com
  2. ^ The Black Dog profile on BBC Radio 1
  3. ^ Cooper, Sean. "Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  4. ^ "FACT mix 144: The Black Dog". FACT Magazine. 26 April 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2017.