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They’d exploded onto the scene in a flurry of excitement before disappearing just as quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere’s something about these little mesters (workshops) that we believe lives in the very consciousness of Sheffield. It’s one of the reasons we never really had big scenes like Manchester or Leeds. The Hacienda would've never been built here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe don’t really do big gangs or have that kind of mentality. We tend to exist in little\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epockets, often leaving each other alone. It would be 30 years before any member of The Black Dog talked to Cabaret Voltaire. Sure, we’d stood outside their practice room as kids, trying to listen in, but never felt any reason to approach. Sheffield is like that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce we had the first two tracks of the Black EP, we set off to see Jon at Do It Theesen, where he manually cut the tracks to an extremely limited set of 7\" singles using a vinyl lathe. It just felt right to go back to the old ways; a small gang creating something special in workshops and sheds. There’s something very satisfying about it, a perfect circle, if you will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe pushed further by adopting old practices, working with one synth per person and limiting the use of our computers. We only stopped short of putting everything on beer crates. It seems like madness these days, but there is raw creativity within these confines. Pretty much every band started this way. Depeche Mode travelled to the studio on the London Underground for their first appearance on Top Of The Pops, all lugging a synth each. That's how we approached the creation of this album; stripped back, raw and minimal - it just felt so right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then there’s the competitive element that was influenced when the original Human League split and became Human League MK II and Heaven 17. 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