The Black Dog is a British electronic music group, founded in 1989 by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner. The group are considered pioneering figures of techno's ruminative "home-listening" aesthetic in the early 1990s.
Following several self-released EPs, the group signed to Warp Records in 1993 and released the albums Bytes (1993) and Spanners (1995). In 1995, Handley and Turner departed the Black Dog to work on their spin-off project Plaid, leaving Downie to continue recording under the name. The band's early EPs were collected on the 2007 compilation Book of Dogma.