Black Dog Productions

Ken Downie joined up with up with Ed Handley and Andy Turner, who themselves shaped Plaid, in 1988 to create Dark Pup Productions, a secretive east London techno staff, communicating with the exterior world in the infamous Dark Pup Towers, and determinedly obscuring their identities. After wanting to persuade Larry Noticed to remix their initial tracks (he transformed them down on the lands which the music was ‘as well odd’), the trio released their initial record, the Virtual EP, on Dark Pup Records a calendar year later. Using the subsequentAge Of Slack andBlack Pup EPs, despite their limited distribution (partly, the consequence of the distributor melting down fifty percent from the 1, 000 copies of Dark Doggie), the trio experienced attracted a solid and faithful fanbase. Using the inspirational usage of breakbeats (at that time being hijacked from the ‘content hardcore’ brigade) and melodies, in these early recordings Dark Doggie Productions created a few of their finest function, and indeed a number of the finest abstract techno to emerge from the united kingdom. They continued however you like using the Parallel Squelch EP, released around the recently created GPR label, bringing in the passions of Warp Information and R&S Information. In 1993, Dark Doggie Productions released their debut recording, Bytes, within Warp’s Artificial Cleverness series. One among the highlights from the series, the recording highlighted their delicate feeling of songwriting propriety, and drawn the attention of several artists, leading to remix and creation function for artists such as for example Nicolette and Björk. Temple Of Transparent Balls, on GPR and acknowledged to the even more succinct the Dark Doggie, followed a 12 months later, although a lot of the work have been produced ahead of Bytes, and have been spilt between Ken Downie on the main one hand, as well as the pairing of Ed Handley and Andy Turner for the various other. Spanners, the 3rd and last record featuring the initial band line-up, premiered in 1995. Sounding even more accomplished, the record occasionally does not have the raw experience of a few of their previous cuts, even though the sheer inventiveness from the artificial noises and percussion still manages to entry the listener. Pursuing Spanners, Handly and Turner departed to focus on Plaid, departing Downie to keep working alone beneath the Dark Pet name. The initial ‘single’ record, Music For Adverts (And Brief Films), premiered on Warp in 1996. Collaborations with Israeli vocalist Ofra Haza and French spoken phrase artist Dark Sifichi implemented, the latter signing up for Downie on the genuinely troubling tribute to article writer William S. Burroughs. In the first 00s, Downie teamed up using the Dirt Research label and started recording on a far more regular basis. The group of EPs as well as the full-length Silenced which were released in 2005 highlighted a few of his greatest function since the middle-90s.