Black Dog, The ‎– Music For Adverts (And Short Films)

At the time, I didn't have much attention for this album, being more inspired by "Spanners" and the seminal "Bytes". The first album without Ed & Andy, it consists of 26 shorter, conceptual tracks, beats / ambient oriented, often with an Arabic vibe. It has the funky "PUP 2" catalog number. All I can say is, this album has aged really well and in sound and creativity can compete with many current releases.

Since Warp records is still a major factor in experimental electronic music nowadays, not in the least because of their promotional strategies on the web, their intermediate role in distribution and of course the excellent music they put out, I think more people are starting to regard the back catalogue as a point of reference. This is definitely one of those albums that should be labeled as 'classic Warp'. I picked up a new pressing just recently, so it's still being printed, albeit in limited amounts; the recordstore owner told me back order wasn't possible - I was lucky. Buy on sight.

Useless trivia: the title/concept is a nod to Music for Short Films by Brian Eno. More interestingly, the cover art is also an Eno reference: it looks (sorta) like the covers from his Ambient series (Ambient 1,2,3,4).

Released when Black Dog was only Ken Downie (no Ed or Andy unfortunately). Still a great release however.