Browse by Artist: SURGEON

Artist:	SURGEON
Title:	Fabric 53
Label:	FABRIC (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FABRIC 105CD

"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 4×4 pulse and adding thicker, more leading bass tones." Artists: Scuba, Marco Bernardi, Exium, Instra:mental, Forward Strategy Group, Reeko, Robert Hood, Planetary Assault Systems, Al Tourettes, Appleblim, Ritzi Lee, Ben Sims, T-Polar, Ital Tek, Subeena, Fran Hartnett, Mark Broom & James Ruskin, Stephen Brown, Ancient Methods, Greena, Starkey, Anneka, Slugabed, Cari Lekebusch, Orphx, Gatekeeper, Mark Broom & James Ruskin, Russ Gabriel, DJ Overdose.

Artist:	SURGEON
Title:	Basictonalvocabulary
Label:	TRESOR (BELGIUM)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$23.50
Catalog #:	TRESOR 10073LP

Tresor presents a classic repress on vinyl of a seminal album by Surgeon, originally released in 1997. Surgeon fires up his second album release (following 1996's Communications LP on Downwards) with his first album on Tresor. Basictonalvocabulary expands from Tony's more dance-oriented 12"releases via more abstract sound shapes and deft frequency control. Neither total dancefloor nor outright home-listening, this album explores a more nocturnal collage of sound design where rhythms form the underlying framework for subtle twists to accent the sound architecture with depth and feeling. Tony's work is about universal communication where cultural and social barriers are bridged by personal, raw electronic snapshots set within minimal sonic contexts. Basictonalvocabulary speaks a new global sound language for worldwide interpretation. The machine code is on the tape: open your ears and decipher. Stupefying electro-trance of the most stratospheric order.

Artist:	SURGEON
Title:	Force + Form
Label:	TRESOR (BELGIUM)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$23.50
Catalog #:	TRESOR 10117LP

Tresor represses the third seminal album by the UK's Surgeon, originally released in 1999. Surgeon's third Tresor album reinforces the theories communicated in previous releases, drawing carefully on the parallel between loud music's ability to cross cultural differences. The opposing swing toward experimentally contemplative music is played quietly to produce a different perception. Sentimental with high emotional content while sometimes simultaneously brutal, Force + Form brews a powerful physical experience at club-level decibels.

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