Surgeon

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These days, in the insulated world of electronic music, the cyclical journey from obscurity to oversaturation to insignificance (and, of course, back again) often happens in the space of a year. It's all too easy to get numbed by minutae or otherwise lead astray away by the fickle whirlwind of hype. Rummaging through the 15 year discography of the unrelenting, steadfast techno legend Surgeon - and tracing the vast odyssey of his creative exploration - breeds a rare feeling of discovery. And genuine artistry. Surgeon (a.k.a. Anthony Child) stands tall as a true individual in the leagues of electronic music history, with seminal, landmark releases bounded only by raw passion and a transcendentally deep imagination.

"This is the music that I am enjoying and I feel it represents me. And on the other side, there were some newer or lesser known artists that I really wanted to represent. It's about making people aware of different genres, to show the likeness. It's taking T-Polar, Subeena, Ital Tek, Ancient Methods - and putting that next to Orphx, DJ Overdose and Russ Gabriel, and mixing them all up together. It's kind of strange looking at the tracklist, but for me it's very natural the way these things fit together. And really, to me, this is all techno."
Surgeon

Flicking easily from the heavy, sheets of sound produced by his old school contemporaries, Surgeon fuses the old with the new on fabric 53, creating connections between the oppressing and the minimal that have never been as simply decoded. Honing in on the idea that a lot of 'modern' bass music harks back to rave and constantly re-feeds on its memory for inspiration, ("just this idea of the breakbeat, the broken beat; it's got some echoes of rave, there are some elements of that somewhere in it"), he includes music from a veritable liege of young producers. Instra:mental's rolling 'Forbidden' is used early on and adds the kind of quickened bass texture that has been carefully incubated over their workings as they slow down from 175bpm drum & bass and Starkey's 'Spacecraft' is used brilliantly to juxtapose the rolling pressure of what comes before it, eliminating the 4x4 pulse and adding thicker, more leading bass tones.


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Tracklisting:

  1. Listen
    1
    Location recording from Kuramae Subway Station
    Tokyo, Japan
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    2
    Scuba
    Glance
    Hotflush
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    3
    Surgeon
    Bad Hands (Drums Only)
    Dynamic Tension
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    4
    Marco Bernardi
    Giro (Exium Remix)
    Dirty Planet
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    5
    Instra:mental
    Forbidden
    Apple Pips
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    6
    Forward Strategy Group
    Applied Generics A
    Forward Strategy Group
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    7
    Reeko
    Agile Movement
    Theory
  8. Listen
    8
    Surgeon
    Bad Hands Part 2
    Drums Only
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    9
    Robert Hood
    Superman
    M-Plant
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    10
    Planetary Assault Systems
    X Speaks To X (Al Tourettes & Appleblim Remix)
    Ostgut Ton
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    11
    Ritzi Lee
    Black Star Ritual (Ben Sims Remix)
    Underground Liberation
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    12
    T-Polar
    Crab People
    Digital Distortions
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    13
    Ital Tek
    Spectrum Falls
    Atom River
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    14
    Surgeon
    Klonk Part 1 (Drums Only)
    Dynamic Tension
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    15
    Subeena
    Picture
    Opit
  16. Listen
    16
    Fran Hartnett
    It Was Written In Vapour
    unreleased
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    17
    Mark Broom & James Ruskin
    Hostage
    Blueprint
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    18
    Stephen Brown
    Stress Free
    Music Man
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    19
    Ancient Methods
    AM04B1
    Ancient Methods
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    20
    Surgeon
    Compliance Momentum
    Dynamic Tension
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    21
    Greena
    Tenzado
    Apple Pips
  22. Listen
    22
    Starkey
    Spacecraft
    Planet Mu
  23. Listen
    23
    Starkey feat. Anneka
    Stars (Slugabed Did A Remix)
    Planet Mu
  24. Listen
    24
    Cari Lekebusch
    Spindizzy (Luke Slater's L.B. Dub Corp Remix)
    Mote-Evolver
  25. Listen
    25
    Surgeon
    The Crawling Frog Is Torn and Smiles
    Dynamic Tension
  26. Listen
    26
    Orphx
    Threshold (Substance Remix)
    Sonic Groove
  27. Listen
    27
    Gatekeeper
    Blip
    If Symptoms Persist
  28. Listen
    28
    Mark Broom & James Ruskin
    No Time Soon
    Blueprint
  29. Listen
    29
    Russ Gabriel
    El Juan
    We Play House
  30. Listen
    30
    DJ Overdose
    What
    Lunar Disko Records
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