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Short interview with Clash Magazine, just say No To Music To Wash Hair By

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# “Radio Scarecrow” incorporates production techniques like EVP and number stations. What is the idea behind it, did you just decide ‘oh, let’s do that’, or is there a underlying theme?

[Martin] I’ve been interested in EVP recordings for many years and Numbers Station still hold a lot of fascination to me, so I’ve been collecting and swapping recordings for around 10 years. When Radio Scarecrow started to manifest and it seemed like the ideal project to pour all this information and data into the music we where writing at the time – it felt right. Plus I wanted to put some curses into the project because there’s a couple of people I’d like to see die in hotel fires and using Morse and number ciphers it allowed me to do that. Things happen naturally in Black Dog, there’s no stupid ‘back-story” or PR stunts. If we’d had more time and space we would have also put some of our Satie pieces in as well. Things with us manifest by their own nature, we’ve learned to live that over the last four years

[Ken] The album is a soundtrack for a real person. the production technique was akin to knitting the web of wyrd, or splicing disparate strands of rope together, to lead us through the labyrinth. It’s up to the listener to discern “the idea” behind the album. Summing it all up here in 50 words, would be too cheap, and too easy. Like much of our stuff, you’re asked to arrive at your own conclusions.

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March 14-16 - Bloc Weekend - Camber Sands
March 21 - Kingpin - Bristol
April 3 - H’s - Texas
April 18 - Secret Location - Sheffield
April 25 - Pressure - Glasgow
April 26 - Venetian Industries - Venice, Italy
May 3 - Lev Festival - Spain
May 30 - Club Danzo - Madrid, Spain
June 6 - Sudio - Amsterdam (DJ Set)
June 19 - Day Off For Soma’s Party @ La Terrrazza
June 21 - Sonar - Barcelona, Spain
June 27 - Holodeck - Cardiff
June 28 - Glastonbury
July 12 - T In The Park - Slam Tent - Glasgow
July 27 - Ten Days Off - Vooruit, Ghent

More dates and links being added as we go

Short movie using 7 loops from dream machines and William S. Burroughs. Clips selected at random by software, no human edits

The Black Dog - @Sheffield Stag Works -13/03/08 Bass Workout

1. The Black Dog - Mental Ward Sleep Machine (Beatless Version) - Riphead EP - Soma
2. The Black Dog - Witches OV - Radio Scarecrow - Soma
3. The Black Dog - Beep - Radio Scarecrow - Soma
4. The Black Dog - Floods V3.1 (Bass Soldier Rework) - Floods - Soma
5. The Black Dog - Freq 93 - Unreleased
6. The Black Dog - Broke - Unreleased
7. The Black Dog - EVP Echoes - Radio Scarecrow - Soma
8. PWOG - Revelation - Record Of Breaks - Kk
9. The Black Dog - Set To Receive - Radio Scarecrow - Soma
10. The Black Dog - Floods V3.2 (Surgeon Remix) - Floods - Soma
11. PWOG - Dust - Peel Session - Kk/BBC
12. The Black Dog - Gawble Vianag - Riphead EP - Soma
13. The Black Dog - Age Of Slack - Book of Dogma - Soma
14. The Black Dog - Floods V3 - Floods - Soma

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There’s a new interview up on FACT, one where I seem to swear a lot Click Here 

Reviews and Quotes are starting to come back in for Radio Scarecrow, so we thought we’d share what’s coming in with the dogsquad - we don’t have a massive PR machine and do much of the PR ourselves with Don from Soma. We’ll be adding to this thread as things come in.

DJ Magazine - Album Of The Month
The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow - Soma
If any one UK outfit was responsible for taking the Detroitian templates and blending — rather than bastardising — their boundaries into something genuinely innovative, then that would be The Black Dog. Remaining as invigorating as ever, visionary early-’90s works like ‘Temple of Transparent Balls’ and ‘Spanners’ might have been tagged ‘intelligent techno’ but their cutting edges bled influences into d&b, ambient and electronica. Now a reshaped trio (Ed Handley and Andy Turner long departed to continue their Plaid project), original member Ken Downie and kindred underground spirits Martin and Richard Dust have spent three years labouring on this latest sonic masterpiece.

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1. Space Bird - System 7 - A-Wave Records
2. Reykjavik - Function - Sandwell District
3. Powers Of Ten - Portable - Sud Electronic
4. Convoy - Marlow - Black Acre Records
5. Trust - Luca Bacchetti - Wagon Repair
6. In The Trees (C2 Remix) - Faze Action - K7
7. You Are Here - Nathan Fake - Border Community
8. Floods - The Black Dog - Soma
9. Kout - Jakes - Hench
10. 2 Steps Back - Jakes - Hench

Set To Receive EP
A. Set To Receive
B1. EVP Echoes
B2. Short Wave Lies [Live]

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New Single released on 17/03/08 and the final tracks to be taken for the forthcoming album Radio Scarecrow. Already getting charted and played by the like of Louis Osbourne, Laurent Garnier and Claude Young.

Laurent Garnier – Black Dog as good as ever.

Claude Young – The Black Dog has done it again! Deep funky electronics presented by the masters of the game. This release is definitely something for the mind body and soul. 10/10 

Denise Breidbach – Great release, all three tracks are massive ‘hits’!!! Absolutely stunning. 10/10 

This is the second part of the interview we did with Jonty Skrufff about the Radio Scarecrow and various other bits and bobs.

1. Starting with the press release: it says ‘since the release of Silenced in October 2005 The Black Dog have been working delicately on its successor’: ‘working delicately’ is an unusual phrase: why ‘delicate’: what does the term mean in practical terms?

[Martin] It doesn’t seem that unusual to me, music and the whole creative process is delicate by its very nature. The slightest thing can throw it completely off, even if you are making the most violent kind of music. This is why we created special mixes

[Ken] To me, it means “carefully crafted” and hand stitched with love. This was not the time to say “fuck it, that will do”. A lot of extra tweaking beyond the call of duty went into the album. It took six months to put the tracks into their correct (and final) order, for instance.

[Martin] Jesus, I still have 67 cdr’s in the car with all the different tracks and track orders on them, that was a real quest but it’s something that you have to do if you love music. It has to be right.

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