FABRIC 53

Flicking easily from the heavy, sheets of sound produced by his old school contemporaries, the legendary 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, he includes music from a veritable liege of young producers. Instra:mental™s rolling ˜Forbidden™ adds the 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. œ Birmingham along with a like-minded circle of friends. The city™s first techno club night, the night has continued to strive 17 years on. Since its humble beginnings as a small night in the back of a pub, it has grown to host parties in 2000+ capacity venues around the Midlands as well as introducing massive acts such as Dave Clarke, James Ruskin and Neil Landstrumm to perform in the region for the first time. œ much of the British techno scene  from his own solo productions to his work as British Murder Boys, Surgeons™ raw, industrial, avant-garde inspired style have been a staple for his constantly evolving sound. All the while, remaining contently oblivious to changing trends. œ EP, which eventually ended up in the crates of such DJ names as Jeff Mills and Dave Clarke. A further consequence of the Surgeon EP led to Regis (aka Karl O™ Conner and one half of Sandwell District) starting the Downwards label, primarily so he could release Surgeon™s music. œ pairing whose heavily industrialised sound had a huge impact on the British techno scene from the mid 90™s through to 2005. All releases under the BMB alias were issued via Surgeon™s Counterbalance and Regis™s Downwards imprints. œ world-renowned Tresor club. As well as landing a regular DJ slot at the club, Surgeon has also had a number of releases on its highly exclusive label, which has also been home to releases from the likes of Jeff Mills, Drexciya, James Ruskin, Juan Atkins, Thomas Fehlman and Octave One. œ is never the same as the previous; his selection of tunes forever change and stylistic perceptions are always broken down, making Surgeon a highly unpredictable act. Surgeon was one of the first DJ™s to go digital by incorporating Ableton and Final Scratch into his sets and discovering the potential of digital DJing. œ moniker whereby the two acts engage in a fast paced musical back-and-fourth conversation. Nr 1 Kuramae Subway Station, Tokyo, Japan 2 Glance 3 Bad Hands - Surgeon 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30