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	Radio Scarecrow
	[ARTIST ALBUM]
	Artist: The Black Dog Label: Soma Records Date: 31.03.08
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If any one UK outfit was responsible for taking the Detroitian templates and blending — rather than bastardising — their boundaries into something genuinely innovative, then that would be The Black Dog. Remaining as invigorating as ever, visionary early-’90s works like ‘Temple of Transparent Balls’ and ‘Spanners’ might have been tagged ‘intelligent techno’ but their cutting edges bled influences into d&b, ambient and electronica.

Now a reshaped trio (Ed Handley and Andy Turner long departed to continue their Plaid project), original member Ken Downie and kindred underground spirits Martin and Richard Dust have spent three years labouring on this latest sonic masterpiece.

Beautifully crafted throughout, The Black Dog’s signature mosaic-perfect detailing and deeply complex imagery is at once at work on the uncurling ambient reflection ‘Train By The Autobahn’. Upping the pace, ‘Riphead V9’ is deep techno with enough layers to spend hours lost in, ‘UV Sine’ is a majestic string-laden soar whilst the ambient sci-fi dub dread of ‘Floods V3.9’ and ‘Beep’ permeate the current techno/dubstep boundaries perfectly.

But where ‘Radio Scarecrow’’s electronic frequencies truly charm the soul is on measured melodic tracks like ‘Digital Poacher’ and ‘Witches Ov’, where moments of genuine contemplative bliss emerge out of mournful beauty with an intensity not matched by anyone. Never has techno felt quite so human.