Bytes is the debut studio album by English electronic music group The Black Dog, credited under the name Black Dog Productions. It was released on Warp on 8 March 1993. The album consists of tracks produced by the members of the group – Ed Handley, Andy Turner, and Ken Downie – under various aliases, including Plaid, Close Up Over, Xeper, Atypic, I.A.O., Discordian Popes and Balil. Black Dog Productions is also the name of their own record label. In 2002, Slant Magazine placed Bytes at number 23 on its list of "The 25 Greatest Electronic Albums of the 20th Century". It ha… read more
At the core of the group stands Ken Downie who was in the early years joined by Handley and Turner who broke away after release of the album Spanners on Warp. There are probably no recordings that could be credited to the moniker "Black Dog Productions" except for compilation style releases. Instead Downie, Handley and Turner used various pseudonyms for their projects, probably depending on who worked on them. The distinctions between the various pseudonyms shouldn't be as clear cut as the following list suggest: Ken Downie alone: Xeper, Close Up Over, I.A.O. Ed Handl… read more
At the core of the group stands Ken Downie who was in the early years joined by Handley and Turner who broke away after release of the album Spanners on Warp. There are probably no recordin… read more
At the core of the group stands Ken Downie who was in the early years joined by Handley and Turner who broke away after release of the album Spanners on Warp. There are probably no recordings that could be credited to the moniker "… read more