i danced more at Surgeon at the Glade than any time I can recall in recent memory...
Admittedly, there wasn't anything handy to lean on
Is Surgeon Unique?
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i danced more at Surgeon at the Glade than any time I can recall in recent memory...
Admittedly, there wasn't anything handy to lean on
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
The crowd goes mental for it though.
What do you go mental for?
What do you go mental for?
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Not a great deal tbh
A good D&B set would get me throwing shapes, as would someone playing stuff like they did at Havok around '97, but most "dancefloor" stuff that's around atm does fuck all for me.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Your loss grandad 
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Can't really be arsed with clubbing as such anymore tbh, all just seems like far too much effort. Enjoy the odd blowout now and then but my days of wanting to go out and hit a dancefloor every week are long gone. Much prefer to get wankered in the comfort of my own home with mates now.Your loss grandad
Besides, my ears get blasted with loud music at work, I need to give them a rest in my spare time
yawn
at least all the old people are in one place
Jeff Amadeus FTW
at least all the old people are in one place
Jeff Amadeus FTW
was he good?
last time i saw him he was playing old jungle in a squatted restaurant in pimlico
foo
dirtysweet
had a listen to Jefe's link - and still think it's a horrible noise...s'pose you had to be there (as it so often is with dance music ime).
i don't think i like techno much is all..
Boycey
juvenile rave slut
it's best when it does what you don't expect it to. far too much dance music is extremely formulaic, techno at least has less of a formula than other styles. obviously playing technotechnotechno is gonna get boring pretty quickly... that's what makes both surgeon and jerome hill so fucking great
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Seawolf isn't 'jazzy and lite':
docus
Suffering reminiscences
Good call. One of his best, but my favourite is Search Your feelings (Red Planet 4). Techno doesn't get any better. Detroit FTW
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
Good call. One of his best, but my favourite is Search Your feelings (Red Planet 4). Techno doesn't get any better. Detroit FTW
Naaah, Red Atmospheres from Red Planet 4 is better IMO.
free spirit
more tea vicar?
check out the new radioactiveman album ('growl'), released on control tower on the 12th may - keith's not as full on as surgeon, but at least as talented, and definately not just doof doof music. The album oozes class.
others that I reckon are up there with surgeon would be The Hacker, thomas schumacher (check out his electrochemie (sp?) stuff as well as the TS stuff), Green Velvet, and a few others who's names have slipped out of my head... will have to go check my records in a bit.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Keith Tenniswood is shit
free spirit
more tea vicar?
phil kieran as a producer and remixer has been one of the most consistantly spot on over the last 7-8 years IMO, and his alloy mental stuff is an interesting side project - he's never quite hit the same levels djing IMO, I think because he's too used to paying warmups at shine, and a bit too scared to properly kick off and go twisted in the way that surgeon does.
speaking of kicking it off, Ben Sims has been on absolute fire every time I've seen him (mostly when we've been putting him on, but had a proper dance to him at superconductor in leeds a couple of years back as well). He's a bit more straight techno than surgeon, but he's been consistently about the best techno dj bar none in the world IMO over the last few years, and I've seen him 4-5 times in that time.
but yeah... surgeon is pretty unique
speaking of kicking it off, Ben Sims has been on absolute fire every time I've seen him (mostly when we've been putting him on, but had a proper dance to him at superconductor in leeds a couple of years back as well). He's a bit more straight techno than surgeon, but he's been consistently about the best techno dj bar none in the world IMO over the last few years, and I've seen him 4-5 times in that time.
but yeah... surgeon is pretty unique
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
thats like watching and listening to miles davis or john coltrane
jeff mills is a genius imo. you certainly can dance to him, i've heard him and seen him absolutely slay the dance floor, Lost especially.chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
errr...is this thread for real?
two words -
DJ RUSH
NB: personally i found the majority of Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, Ben Sims style stuff rather dull and one-dimensional. Always much preferred the stuff Mike Banks did for UR.
two words -
DJ RUSH
NB: personally i found the majority of Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, Ben Sims style stuff rather dull and one-dimensional. Always much preferred the stuff Mike Banks did for UR.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Rush is way more dull and one-dimensional - boshboshboshboshbosh
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
hmmm...yes these days he is a bit like that, i will admit, and he does seem to have lost the plot with a lot of his own material, but then living in Berlin and having to play to thousands of folk at those massive eastern european techno clubs he does must turn your brains to mush.
the stuff he did up till about 1999/2000 is - next to early Larry Leard stuff - IMO thee must original, innovative and fucked up music i think has ever been created within the genre of house or techno. In particular his releases on saber, dance mania, relief etc.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I'd agree with that
Yeah, strange to say Hood and Mills are one dimensional compared to DJ Rush! He's just 4 to the floor jack - which is fine - but not particularly nuanced or diverse in any way. DJ Funk's also good for that sorta thing.
One of the best things I saw/heard was the Basic Channel/Mills performance at Lost. That really was something else.
One of the best things I saw/heard was the Basic Channel/Mills performance at Lost. That really was something else.
Another one to add - who I haven't heard anything from for ages and must have been influential to Surgeon - Leo Anibaldi. Heard some fucking wonderful, experimental sets from him around '92-5. Muta and Void are two very fine LPs, and a world away from his early Italian piano house 12".
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I'd have LOVED to have seen that - it was right on the end of my street too - which Lost was still there.
I saw Surgeon at Spacebase (Lost) at PP on Saturday and he rocked it - playing all sorts of stuff from dubstep to electro to Detroit, with the likes of Yoko Ono and Scott Walker thrown in.
Hood and Larkin are playing the next one on May 24th BTW.
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