Black Dog - Silenced - Import CD

Credits:

Black Dog

Description:

When the duo Plaid burst out of the Black Dog split of the mid-'90s with several albums of challenging electro-techno, the member they left behind, Ken Downie, seemed to fade into the background. He emerged very occasionally to release excellent material, but for all intensive purposes, it appeared he would be remembered only for what Black Dog had accomplished as a threesome. Silenced, although only his second proper album since 1997, is another excellent album of listening techno; it bears all the hallmarks of his Black Dog classics without overly relying on them, and it has to force a readjustment in how critics view him in the history of electronica. Most closely resembling Black Dog's 1995 record Parallel (right down to the "Bolt" interludes), the record is driven more by mood than technology; the drum programs aren't complex, but Downie has a way of bewitchingly conjuring the past with his productions that not even Boards of Canada can touch. As before too, electro plays a big part in the sound of Silenced, as does Downie's interest in the classics (that is, Egypt, Greece, and Rome). The two-part "Trojan Horus" is the best piece he's released in ten years, and it's abetted by yet more great stuff: "Drexian City R.I.D.E.," "Alt/Return/Dash/Kill," and "Truth Benders D.I.E." ~ John Bush

Tracklisting:

01.Trojan Horus [Part 1] (Album Mix / Remastered)
02.Trojan Horus [Part 2] (Album Mix / Remastered)
03.Lam Vril (Album Mix / Remastered)
04.Truth Benders D.I.E (Album Mix / Remastered)
05.Bolt 23 Blue Screen ov Death (Album Mix / Remastered)
06.Alt-Return-Dash-Kill (Album Mix / Remastered)
07.Bolt 777 Ordinary Boy (Album Mix / Remastered)
08.Drexian City R.I.D.E (Album Mix / Remastered)
09.Remote Viewing (Album Mix / Remastered)
10.Gummi Void (Album Mix / Remastered)
11.Machine Machina (Album Mix / Remastered)
12.The Stele of Revealing (Album Mix / Remastered)
13.Songs for Other People (Album Mix / Remastered)
14.Break Down On Lake Shore Drive (Album Mix / Remastered)
15.Bolt 33 Glitch & Chin (Album Mix / Remastered)
16.Sudden Intake (Album Mix / Remastered)
17.4 3s 555 [Part 1] (Album Mix / Remastered)
18.4 3s 555 [Part 2] (Album Mix / Remastered)