Surgeon – Surgeon EP

LABEL: SRX | SRX 001
GENRE: Techno
RELEASED: 2014
MP3 DOWNLOAD SOURCE: WEB
BITRATE: 320kbps / 44100kHz / Full Stereo
TRACKS: 4
SIZE: 39.12 megs

TRACKLIST

1. Magneze 3:55
2. Move 3:53
3. Atol 4:33
4. Argon 3:55

The first release in the 6-volume Surgeon reissues label, SRX. Originally recorded 20 years ago, Surgeon’s first-ever release seemed to come from nowhere. Techno from Birmingham… really? It marked the beginning of the hugely influential Birmingham techno sound. Championed by Jeff Mills, Dave Clarke and DJ Hell, two tracks from this release were featured in Jeff Mills’ seminal Live at The Liquid Room – Tokyo mix CD. A few words from Surgeon about the SRX series: While searching through old DAT tapes I was shocked to find how clear and dynamic many of my early tracks sounded, not the way I remembered them from the vinyl releases. Those early tracks, recorded 20 years ago, were mastered and cut by people who had no understanding of electronic music. I actually remember cutting a dubplate back then and being asked if my track was “supposed to sound like that?” The engineer was so disgusted at my music that once the cut started he left the room until it was finished. Although some of these releases have been repressed many times over the years, they have always been from the original plates from those early cuts; none have ever been re-mastered and recut in their original from. So I began carefully transferring everything from the original DAT tapes and working closely with Christoph Grote- Beverborg from Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin (who’s been cutting my all my releases since 1996) to present this early material as it was originally intended. Along with the early Downwards releases, I found high-quality unreleased tracks from that time as well as releases that had only been issued in limited pressings; those too are included in this project.