| Silenced | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | The Black Dog |
| Cover: | Silenced (album).jpg |
| Released: | 19 Sep. 2005 |
| Recorded: | 2005 |
| Genre: | IDM |
| Length: | 59:43 |
| Label: | Dust Science Recordings DUSTSND003 |
| Prev Title: | Unsavoury Products |
| Prev Year: | 2002 |
| Next Title: | Radio Scarecrow |
| Next Year: | 2008 |
Silenced is the sixth full-length studio album by The Black Dog released in 2005 on CD. It's the first album Ken Downie recorded and produced together with Martin and Richard Dust, owners of the label Dust Science Recordings.
It harks back to Black Dog's debut Bytes, a record that remains a landmark album in electronic music's development. Martin Dust explained: "We never set off to make it like Bytes. My idea was to create something that you could come home to after you'd just been to a club or gig, that would start at the right pace and then just wind down into a great album and just chill out."[1]
Martin Dust had been "friends with Ken for probably nine or ten years. The main connection is that we both had an interest in internet bulletin board systems and punk. I used to run a bulletin board with an old style modem and communication and information file exchange and hacking and stuff, so right from the beginning I've always been talking to Ken, about that, about music, about everything really. We just struck a friendship up like that and swapped music and ideas and continue from there."[2]
Composed & produced by Ken Downie, Martin Dust & Richard Dust
Bass on "Remote Viewing" by Webby