3rd Album in the Artificial Intelligence Series on Double LP!
First Time on Vinyl Since 1993!
The third album in the Artificial Intelligence series, Bytes was originally released in 1993 and this reissue marks the 30th anniversary. Black Dog Productions were Ed Handley, Andy Turner and Ken Downie. For this record, Handley, Turner and Downie appear under various guises: Atypic, Balil, I.A.O, Close Up Over, Xeper, Discordian Popes and Plaid.
Black Dog Productions' full-length debut is a sprawling deviation from techno-as-throwaway-dancefloor-fare, weaving surprisingly engaging melodic and harmonic passages around complex rhythmic patterns and diverse, somewhat ambient atmospherics. Although all of the material was previously released in 12" or EP form, it holds up surprisingly well as a unified, coherent whole. With B12's Electro-Soma and Autechre's Incunabula, one of the first and finest blasts in the European 'intelligent techno' movement.
Features
- First Time on Vinyl Since 1993
- 30th Anniversary Reissue
- Double LP
- Polylined Inner Sleeves
- Gatefold Outer Sleeve
- Limited-Time Download Card
Selections
Side 1:
- object orient: plaid
- caz: close, up, over
- carceres ex novum: xeper
Side 2:
- focus mel: atypic
- olivine: close, up, over
- the clan (mongol hordes): i.a.o.
Side 3:
- yamemm: plaid
- fight the hits: discordian popes
- merck: balil
Side 4:
- jauqq: close, up, over
- 3/4 heart: balil