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Music For Moore Street Substation – Out Now

Posted on 30th November 2023 in Releases

Our latest ambient work and the soundtrack to the exhibition of My Brutal Life at Moore Street Substation, is out now on streaming platforms, digital download and a tasty limited edition CD.

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Radio Scarecrow (2023 Remaster) – Out Now

Posted on 19th November 2023 in Releases

Our 2008 album Radio Scarecrow has been remastered and recut to a lovely pair of red 12″ vinyl and CD, both now available to order from DustStore.com and Bandcamp:
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https://theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/radio-scarecrow-remastered

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My Brutal Life – Exhibition Video and Soundtrack

Posted on 12th November 2023 in Releases, Video

With the upcoming release of the Music for Moore Street Substation soundtrack, we’ve also decided to release the full video as produced by Amoeba Design. This AV production was originally presented at the exhibition of My Brutal Life at the Moore Street Substation in Sheffield during October 2023.

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More From Amoeba at theestateovcreation:
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About the Video
A combined study in Concrete, Brutalism, Photography, Typography and Sheffield’s rich Electronic Music History.

Inspired by photos of Sheffield and the psychogeographical nature of the surrounding environment and moments in time captured by Martin Dust, inspired by their music and photography amoeba combined creative bespoke parametric typography, ai and machine learning with real-time motion graphics to create a unique glimpse into one familiar yet strange Brutal reality we all see a version of everyday

Reflecting the brutalist history of Sheffield, set to the music of The BlackDog. The film was initially made for the My Brutal Life Installation at Moore Street Power station, now utilised here with the captured impulse response reverb of the power station’s interior and evolving in live AV sets with the electronic act.

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Music For Moore Street Substation – 1/12/23

Posted on 3rd November 2023 in Releases

<a href="http://web.archive.org./web/20240109185310/https://duststoredigital.com/album/music-for-moore-street-substation">Music For Moore Street Substation by The Black Dog</a>

Coming in December 2023, we’ll be releasing the original soundtrack for the My Brutal Life exhibition held at Moore Street Substation. The final work featured remixes and new compositions, all created for the immense location of the event.

This new ambient album will be available to download, on all digital streaming platforms, and on CD, including a very special deluxe package.

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Further Details
“When we discovered that we could use the top floor of the Moore Street Substation for the exhibition of My Brutal Life, we couldn’t believe our luck. For us, this brutalist icon is a perfect fit for My Brutal Life, so we decided immediately to lean into the unique nature of the building.

It’s one of our favourite brutalist buildings in Sheffield and provides a massive space for the event. It’s rarely open to the public and often shrouded in mystery. Many people, even locals, don’t know what the building is.

The space did, however, have problems. The soundcheck for the audio revealed a particular issue – the immense space has a massive natural reverberation of over 9.7 seconds. The original album and soundtrack for My Brutal Life wouldn’t work in this environment, with the bass and drums creating an overwhelming sense of claustrophobia. We returned to the studio to remix the existing tracks and create new pieces to fit this space. We wanted people to feel comfortable and spend time with the art.

As a result, we had a very different soundtrack to the original, so we’ve decided to release the full audio as it was heard in the Moore Street Substation.”

Radio Scarecrow – 2023 Remaster and Re-issue

Posted on 3rd November 2023 in Releases

<a href="http://web.archive.org./web/20240109185310/https://duststoredigital.com/album/radio-scarecrow-remastered">Radio Scarecrow (Remastered) by The Black Dog</a>

15 years after its original release on Soma Records, Radio Scarecrow is now remastered and re-issued on Dust Science. We’ve got a fresh batch of CDs and a lovely, limited edition, pressed on to double, RED 180g 12″ vinyl.

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Two years of constant development culminated in a masterpiece that flows delightfully and hits hard. Marking a true progression from the band’s previous album, Silenced, the trio are keen to note:

“The beats are faster and the bass is much heavier – so much so, that it was making us ill, working with the low frequencies for hours on end. We could only do 3 hours at a time on some parts.”

Tracks like Floods v3.9 and Beep are a testament to this. With throbbing basslines strong enough to make an impact on the Richter scale, these tracks are best played out on big sound systems.

Radio Scarecrow unfolds gracefully, barely skipping a beat between tracks. The act have created an album that demands to be listened to in its entirety. With elements blending between tracks (the same kick drum being used to very different means in Short Wave Lies and Siiiipher for example) and with constant references to conspiracy theories and the supernatural, The Black Dog present more than a collection of tracks. Influenced heavily by their interest in Magick, Numbers Stations and Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP), the act have hidden examples of these within their work.

“These transmissions and recordings (and people’s interpretations of them) had a strong influence on many of the final concepts and compositions, to the point where we’ve been embedding coded messages and curses deep inside the tracks”.