For me personally, I don’t go for heavily publicising projects, over the years that I’ve been DJing I’ve seen the popularity of techno rise and fall many, many times but this doesn’t panic or concern me, I do what I do and if it’s more or less popular then that’s just the way the universe operates. Fortunately I’m still able to survive through DJing, so as long as that’s the case then that’s okay. So many times for so many years I’ve noticed people say, Well everything’s been done that you can possibly do with dance music.’ It reminds of something I heard about how in Victorian times they decided that all scientific discoveries had been discovered and that was all there was to learn; it was as if science was a shut book. It’s a bizarre thing to say, and it’s the same with music. If your motivation is down or your inspiration is down, then maybe it’s just the case that you’re not looking in the right place. There’s always something there to discover or to motivate you.

I change the way I’m playing at different places. It’s having an awareness of what people’s expectations are, and then stretching the boundaries of that, while trying to incorporate different styles into it. There have always been far more experimental and avant-garde electronic artists than anything that I do, but I like to work as a kind of breach between the fringes of the avant-garde and the experimental stuff – I try and bring an essence and a flavour of that in, but try to use techno as a carrier wave, or a as medium, to sort of transmit these more avant-garde elements in.

- Surgeon

Tracklist

1. Addison Groove – Footcrab – Swamp
2. Subeena – Picture – Opit Records
3. Joel Alter – Soul Clap – Sweatshop
4. Kvantti – Kööpenhaminalanien tulkinta – Sähkö
5. Oni Ayhun – OAR004a – Oni Ayhun Records
6. T-Polar – Crab People – Digital Distortions
7. Mark Broom & James Ruskin – Hostage – Blueprint
8. Jolka – Untitled – Unreleased
9. Sterac – Liteon – Treso
10. Surgeon – Waiting For Me part 1 – Counterbalance
11. Apologist – Sorry (dub) – Apologist In Dub
12. The Tuss – Synthacon 9 – Rephlex
13. The Black Dog – Northern Electronic Soul (Claro Intelecto Snake Pass mix) – Soma
14. Harmonia – Deluxe (Immer Weider) – Brain
15. Lory D – Acix9999 – Wireblock
16. Surgeon – Klonk part3 – Dynamic Tension
17. Oni Ayhun – OAR002 – Oni Ayhun Records
18. Rustie – Bad Science – Wireblock
19. Starkey – Spacecraft – Planet Mu
20. Starkey – Stars (Slugabed Did A Remix) – Planet Mu
21. British Murder Boys – BMB4 Bonus beats – Counterbalance
22. Traversable Wormhole – Exiting The Milky Way (Surgeon remix)

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