This is the ultimate Black Dog collection. Songs that will never tire nor sound old, reminding us of how important they were to the sounds of the future. A must have.

In my humble opinion this is the best Black Dog/Plaid album. From the lush electronica of parallel and vanttool to the darker techno of the vir2l tracks, this collection, written in 1991-92, demonstrates how forward thinking these artists were. Unparalleled.

Parallel isn’t an album as much as it is a collection of tracks off of the Black Dog’s early GPR EPs. Not surprisingly, though, the quality remains undiminished after all these years. From the first track, “Parallel,” you can tell that the Black Dog boys know their stuff. “Glossolalia” ambles by smoothly, while “Vanttool” whistles by like a breath of fresh air. There’s quite the rhythmic workout on “Rainbow Bridge.” And the twin tracks of “Virtual Hmmm…” and “VIR2L” show the extreme diversity of their ideas using the skeleton of the same track. There won’t ever be anything like the Black Dog -- luckily, you can continue to enjoy what they did produce today and, surely, in the future.

'I sit in my room and imagine the future'.. A collection of early deleted Black Dog material, originally released on
the same label in early 90's.
The compilation was very hard to get, because GPR had to stop existing. 7 years later it was re-released with
some kind of cheap copied artwork from the original.
It's Pre-bytes music and made for diehard Black Dog fans.