Sheffield in England was the hub of electronic music in the early 90s. Ken Downie, Ed Handley and Andy Turner were releasing music at a rapid rate at the time and under half a dozen pseudonyms. These Bytes were released on Warp in 1993 under the project name Black Dog Productions.

In the early 1990s, when the turbines at Warp were cranked up and ambient, techno and IDM became a global phenomenon, it spawned an entire subculture. At Black Dog Productions, all three members took on parallel roles, designing samples, programming drum patterns, sequencing stems and bolting the individual parts together to create wildly fluorescent tracks of timeless quality.

The trio has been working together in this way under a good dozen pseudonyms since the beginning of the decade: The Black Dog, Plaid, Close Up Over, Atypic, Discordian Popes