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Surgeon at Berghain, Berlin 4th March 2012
“Here is a recording of my DJ set at Berghain recorded between 7am and 10am on Sunday 4th March 2012. Things are getting pretty deep at that time of day, I was enjoying the waves of energy throughout the set. Internal > External and back again.”
Surgeon at sunrise, sounds like a good night out.
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Mix: British Murder Boys - Live @ Dogma, Edinburgh (2004)
As you can probably well imagine, unf! BMB in the mix for nigh on 3 hours. Spans everything from Autechre to Jeff Mills to Nitzer Ebb to Aphex Twin’s Digeridoo, hard and fast. Download on SoundCloud.
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British Murder Boys - Hate Is Such A Strong Word (All The Saints Have Been Hung, Counterbalance, 2005)
“…just a little more…”
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Surgeon at Awakenings Easter 2011, Gashouder, Amsterdam. Wow. Yes, we’re really very impressed.
Find his set on SoundCloud here.
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Surgeon - Radiance (Breaking the Frame, Dynamic Tension, 2011)
Sounds like he’s willing energy out of thin air. It doesn’t get more techno than this… well, until Those Who Do Not.
“As far as the tracks themselves go, regardless of what you like, know, think you know, would like to know, know you would like, think you would like if you knew, would know if you liked, and what not, check out Radiance. Not because it’s a career high, but because of that monstrous bass line, and the way it balances with shimmering shiny synth passages and opaque, menacing mechanical whip cracks.” — maroko
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Tension & Release
…I manipulate the symbols of music by not giving people what they want all the time. I use frustration as a tool, and work with a model of tension and release. For instance, I play something that’s deliberately difficult and unfamiliar – so people won’t like it. And then I give them a reward or resolution, moving on to something they’ll like. It’s not sadism – it’s a balance of pleasure and pain that makes the whole thing work.
— Anthony Child, Habitual Symbol Manipulator (interview by Louise Jolly on Semionaut)
(Photo credit: Marek Petraszek)
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British Murder Boys - Learn Your Lesson (Counterbalance, 2003)
Resident Advisor: There seems to be some confusion about why you and Karl O’Connor split your British Murder Boys partnership. Can you clear that up at all?
Surgeon: The world can be a confusing place, just relax as you take a deep breath and go deeper.
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Surgeon - Shaper of the Unknown (Screw the Roses, Counterbalance, 2001)
Visceral. Best appreciated at full volume for maximum grind. Surrrgeon!
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Surgeon - Muggerscum Out Remixes (Soma309D)
As far as we are concerned, Surgeon is quite simply royalty in Techno. He has made and played music as he likes, disregarding traits and trends, for 15+ years. Over these years he has worked with the likes of Regis (as British Murder Boys) and more recently Ben Sims (as Frequency 7), making records that have been a corner stone of the Birmingham Techno scene. Shortly after Surgeon had broken through with his eponymous debut EP, Magneze, on Downwards circa 1995, the original Muggerscum Out was released on Soma Records.
A strictly British selection of remixers work this hidden gem in the Surgeon and Soma catalogues. The Black Dog offer two mixes of Surgeon in their archetypal heavy, Northern style, while London’s Perc and Glasgow’s Alex Smoke turn Muggerscum Out in their own unique way.
Perc’s broken beat remix twists the original into an even more aggressive track (if that is even possible!) A mammoth kick drum sits on deep sub bass, while claps and cracks fill the holes in between these monstrous beats.
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The upcoming Surgeon album, Breaking The Frame, condensed into 4 minutes. Out on Dynamic Tension end of May. Back in the grinder.
In his words:
This album isn’t about “entertainment,” it’s about transformation, and transformation requires effort on behalf of the aspirant.
My initial idea for this album project was to explore ideas of science fiction, but when I started the groundwork, it soon became obvious to me that my journey was one to inner rather than outer space. I studied the music of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, and Alice Coltrane, all of whom made deeply spiritual, abstract music. I was searching for the deep spiritual essence that lay behind the surface structures of their individual music.
This album is the closest I have been to reaching that point. It has nothing to do with nihilism or dystopia; it has a purely utopian aesthetic.
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