Plaid in General

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... nights). In this vein, Black Dog went on to release 'Temple of Transparent Balls' and 'Spanners', both of which are lovely quirkily abstract records (particularly 'Spanners' which features some ugly-beautiful oddball classical-meets-electronica-and-techno-u p-a-weird-alley-decorated-with-egyptian -symbols type action). Pat pat...good dog. However, in 1995, they ran into a slight problem in that two of the band's...more

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Plaid in General: Ur Gloopitzer na Bongo (972 words)
by - written on 18/10/01 (Very useful, 160 readings)
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Are you sitting comfortably?..then I'll begin: Long long ago, back in the days when all music made with machines was expected to sound like either a juggernaut juddering through a foundation-shaking block party or a wispy-haired buddha noodling through the ambient emptiness of a distant star system(with a dub bassline), there existed in an unfashionable corner of money-blighted essex, a band called Black Dog. They were unusual in that, despite living near the Prodigy, and existing in a millieu where EVERYONE AND THEIR GRAN was making hit records, they never really made anything that made you jump up and dance like a puppet with the strings on fire. The ... Read the complete review

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