Black Dog Productions

Ken Downie joined up with Ed Handley and Andy Turner, who themselves formed Plaid, in 1988 to form Black Dog Productions, a secretive east London techno crew, communicating with the outside world from the infamous Black Dog Towers, and determinedly obscuring their identities. After attempting to persuade Larry Heard to remix their first tracks (he turned them down on the grounds that the music was GÇÿtoo weirdGÇÖ), the trio released their first record, the Virtual EP, on Black Dog Records a year later. With the subsequentAge Of Slack andBlack Dog EPs, despite their limited dis...