At the core of the group stands Ken Downie who was in the early years joined by Handley and Turner who broke away after release of the album Spanners on Warp. There are probably no recordings that could be credited to the moniker "Black Dog Productions" except for compilation style releases. Instead Downie, Handley and Turner used various pseudonyms for their projects, probably depending on who worked on them. The distinctions between the various pseudonyms shouldn't be as clear cut as the following list suggest: