The Black Dog
Bytes
"Bytes" is the first studio album by the English electronic music group The Black Dog, released under the name Black Dog Productions. The album was released by Warp on 8 March 1993. The album features tracks produced by the group's members, Ed Handley, Andy Turner, and Ken Downie, under various aliases such as 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.
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"Bytes" is the first studio album by the English electronic music group The Black Dog, released under the name Black Dog Productions. The album was released by Warp on 8 March 1993. The album features tracks produced by the group's members, Ed Handley, Andy Turner, and Ken Downie, under various aliases such as 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.
The album has been recognized as a landmark of intelligent dance music and in 2002, Slant Magazine placed it at number 23 on its list of "The 25 Greatest Electronic Albums of the 20th Century." Bytes was released in 1993 on double vinyl, cassette, and CD by the Sheffield techno label Warp. The members of The Black Dog collaborated on the album under various guises and combinations, and an early version of "Clan (Mongol Hordes)" appears on the Artificial Intelligence album as "The Clan".