Black Dog Productions, Bytes

Words by Roy Spencer

Ken Downie, Ed Handley and Andy Turner, aka Black Dog Productions, were one of the jewels in the already gem-heavy crown of the Warp label. And this captivating collection of early singles and EPs from the trio, under a variety of guises, would be quickly regarded as a seminal electronic album of the time. Part of the first wave of “intelligent techno” to wash over us from the UK and Europe, the album helped re-plot the twists and turns of techno in the early ’90s, and redefine the boundaries of the genre, if it was to have any at all. “I was still searching for a sound back then,” says Turner, who was learning synthesis, audio production and musical theory as he was making it. “It’s a pretty wild album,…

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Future Music (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2023

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