The Black Dog

Our Brutal projects continue with the release of Dubs: Volume 2 Brutal; where our studio machinations cross over into our obsessions with Béton Brut, modernism and minimalism. This release is a result of that collision. Four tracks for angular futurism that was always promised but never delivered. The future we're told is always on the next page, inaccessible to the proles, but that's never stoppe...

Our Brutal projects continue with the release of Dubs Volume 2: Brutal; where our studio machinations cross-over into our obsessions with Béton Brut, modernism and minimalism. This release is a result of that collision. Four tracks for angular futurism that was always promised but never delivered. The future we're told is always on the next page, inaccessible to the proles, but that's never stoppe...

"Dubs" is a project that we'd talked about for a couple of years but never really had the time to focus on, as it required a lot of research and leg work to put together. We eventually started in January of 2020 but little did we know what would be happening by March. "Dubs" deals with our history in Sheffield and The Black Dog, sometimes literal and sometimes not. Come with us on a journey throug...

Today we start releasing exclusive music for Music For Photographers via our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/theblackdogma For Exclusives, Early Access, Discounts and All our music this year just join for the price of a coffee. It’s a great way to support us.

Because we got invited to play on a 3D sound system, we thought we’d rewrite a lot our new tracks so they’d work with the system properly. We’ve worked on these systems before and it’s difficult to do a good job beyond the gimmicks and to not wear the listener out but we are always up for a challenge and interested in new ideas. This of course lead from one thing to another and after a week we’d r...

Recorded live at No Bounds on the 17th of October to a live audience under safe distance restrictions this was our last gig of 2020 using a full 3D sound system array that’s then recorded on a binaural stream via a Neumann virtual head. The system is effectively a 24:8 sound system and similar to rigs we’ve played on before. We knew that turning up and just doing a standard set won’t work on a sys...

Pre-Order Here: https://duststoredigital.com/album/fragments Fragments was a completely new way of working for us. We’ve always worked with an internal brief, creating documents, pictures and videos, simply because keeping an idea on track with three individuals can be difficult. It's easy for someone to be edged out of the creative process when the focus is not clearly defined. It’s a formula we’...

In the second drone pack, we deliver 82 new tones shifting to further extremes; On one set, we toy with the unusual harmonics of complex, layered source tones, while the second explores the purity of primary waveforms. Sometimes dirty and uncomfortable, they all demonstrate beauty in raw simplicity. This release contains two different packages: 24-bit WAV audio samples (2.1GB!) for use in any comp...

The final track for our Patreon album https://www.patreon.com/theblackdogma

Track 11 from our Fragments Album https://www.theblackdogma.com/patreon-downloads/

Track 10 of our Fragments album https://www.theblackdogma.com/patreon-downloads/

Tracklist is here https://www.theblackdogma.com/2020/06/listening-to-series-16/

90 individual drone samples as Ableton Live Instrument Racks and 24bit WAV files. Drones are a simple concept, to reduce a world of complex sounds to their core elements. This pack features 90 sustained, loopable samples, all with subtle movement throughout. Useable as single instruments, deep background elements or unique minimalist pieces to be played in their own right. https://www.patreon.com/...

On the second Allegory EP, The Black Dog deliver three tracks following on from where Allegory 1 [Red] started, going more minimal and returning to the source; the groove. If you could throw your arms around cold concrete and steel, then this would be the music to play during such an embrace. There’s a beauty in brutality and sometimes, the eyes and ears don’t immediately understand it. Those who...

We've just uploaded track 8 of our Patreon album, it's coming along nicely. https://www.patreon.com/theblackdogma

Powerful and unusual instrumentation has been the backbone of electronic music since it's inception. Here we've created a pack of sounds designed to be interesting and highly usable, ranging from epic to abstract, and consisting of smooth pads, synthetic strings, analogue sweeps and unique tones

Tracklist https://www.theblackdogma.com/2020/04/listening-to-series-15/

Track 6 from our Fragments album over on Patreon. https://www.theblackdogma.com/patreon-downloads/

The Oberheim Matrix 1000 was always a favourite synth in our studio and this Ableton Live Instrument Rack provides an easy-to-use collection of 130 presets. They're naturally bright, rich, warm, deep, and provide simple shaping controls to fit your needs. Just drop them into your projects and play. Free to our Patreons www.patreon.com/theblackdogma

64 unique bass drums samples created for a range of different uses and featured regularly in our music and live sets over recent years. We've collected them together as an Ableton Live Instrument Rack featuring simple controls, to provide a powerful toolkit ready for your next project. Free to our Patreons https://www.patreon.com/theblackdogma

The Conspiracy Tapes - The End by The Black Dog

Buy at https://duststoredigital.com/ and https://www.duststore.com/ The “Conspiracy Tapes Live” album is a collection of new live performances and previously unreleased tracks from The Black Dog’s Conspiracy Lectures in Birmingham and Glasgow in 2019. These events brought together music, film and talks explaining the background and environment that influenced and formed the Conspiracy Tapes projec...

Tracklist https://www.theblackdogma.com/2019/12/listening-to-series-13

Tracklist https://www.theblackdogma.com/2019/10/listening-to-series-12/

Listening To Series: 12 by The Black Dog