The Black Dog - Liber Temple (Book 2 Ov 3)

01. Heavy Industry
02. Greedy Gutter Guru

The second in The Black Dog’s new series of 12”s aimed solely at the floor. “Dark wave techno” is how they themselves are styling it, and there’s no doubt that the industrial-strength material on here owes something to the pistoning industrial funk of Ancient Methods, Regis et al. ‘Heavy Industry’ is the aptly title A-side, a proper warehouse thumper built for big rooms from Sheffield to Berlin. There are a lot of people making music like this at these days, but we can think of few producers doing it with such self-possession and subtlety – these boys have been in the game a long time and know exactly what they’re doing. ‘Greedy Gutter Guru’ is a more lithe, sinewy beast, driven by distant, almost elegiac synth melody and a pert kickdrum pulse – like vintage Kompakt but with more hairs on its chest. Big 12” for the proper techno heads...www.boomkat.com

The Black Dog - Further Vexations

1. Biomantric L-if-e
2. 0093
3. Phil: Because Ov, Indeed
4. You're Only SQL
5. We Are Haunted
6. CCTV Nation
7. Stempel
8. Northern Electronic Soul (Part 1)
9. Northern Electronic Soul (Part 2)
10. Northern Electronic Soul (Part 3)
11. Skin Clock
12. Dada Mindstab
13. Tunnels Ov Set
14. Later Vexations
15. Kissing Someone Else's D.O.G

Further Vexations is our artistic response to 21st century rat on your neighbour smokefree Britain. It is an attempt to capture and express our emotional frustrations, and the trials and tribulations of living in an un-democratic surveillance society. The seeds of nihilist despair and apathy are well and truly sown amongst the citizens of Airstrip One. We've helplessly watched with mounting horror, while the government trashed the country, signed away its sovereignty to Brussels (with a flourish of a specially minted silver pen), sold off precious national industries and assets at next to bargain basement prices, and indulged itself with two utterly pointless wars which it couldn't afford. We were promised a vote. A referendum. A chance to change things but an unelected politician chancellor man decided not to bother. To say we are pissed off about it, would be an understatement.