Bytes is an album by Ed Handley, Andy Turner and Ken Downie, under the name Black Dog Productions

Black Dog Productions

The Black Dog was founded by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner. Widely regarded as legends, the group are pioneers who, along with acts like Autechre, Aphex Twin, µ-ziq and LFO, came to define the techno movement known as intelligent dance music in the early 1990s.-Early career:In...

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Background

The album was released in 1993 and later re-released in 2005. Today, both Ed Handley and Andy Turner form part of Plaid

Plaid (band)

Plaid is a London-based British electronic music duo comprising Andy Turner and Ed Handley. They are former members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic and Balil , before settling on Plaid...

 while Ken Downie continues to produce music under Black Dog. All three collaborated on the album under various guises and combinations. Bytes was launched on the Sheffield techno label Warp Records

Warp Records

Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....

 as WARPCD8 in 1993. An early version of "Clan (Mongol Hordes)" appears on Artificial Intelligence as "The Clan".

Track listing

1. Plaid
   Plaid (band)
   Plaid is a London-based British electronic music duo comprising Andy Turner and Ed Handley. They are former members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic and Balil , before settling on Plaid...
   
    – "Object Orient" – 5:44
2. Close Up Over – "Caz" – 6:15
3. Xeper – "Carceres Ex Novum" – 6:43
4. Atypic – "Focus Mel – 7:13
5. Close Up Over – "Olivine" – 4:45
6. I.A.O. – "Clan (Mongol Hordes)" – 6:24
7. Plaid – "Yamemm" – 6:15
8. Discordian Popes – "Fight The Hits" – 6:20
9. Balil – "Merck" – 4:34
10. Close Up Over – "Jauqq" – 5:47
11. Balil – "3/4 Heart" – 7:33

External links

• Bytes at the Warp Records website