Re: (idm) black dog aliases / mbuki mvuki

From Che
Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 20:11

On Tue, 19 May 1998, Tom Tonger wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> ok, so I know that
> - balil is ed handley
> - plaid are ed h. and andy turner, of course, and
> - xeper is ken downie.
> 
> anyone know who's behind 
> - close up over,
> - IAO, and
> - discordian popes?

One source of clues would be the Live Tape.  There are several bits &
pieces of classic Dog tracks on there.  If there's one thing I know about
Ken, it's that he would not have used the music if didn't write it.

Over the next week I hope to go through track-by-track & identify these
and cross-reference them.  I'll post the results.

> not that I want to get into the "who are the better black dog members"
> debate, their music rules and that's all that matters, but for those that
> are saying that ken is and was the only creative member (as much as I love
> his work) I strongly recommend checking the (mostly balil) material before
> he joined the group. the balil tracks i.e. on ART4CD will blow you away.

I didn't say Ken was the only creative member, I said he's the only one
who is currently using his creativity.  I love Ed's old tracks as much as
anybody, it just seems to me that he has trouble getting the creative
juices flowing outside of Black Dog Towers, unless he's working on a remix
of someone else's material.

Che