Surgeon - Communications flac album

If you like pure techno, you're gonna love this. If you like Surgeon, well then I'm sure you already do love this! I'm more of the late bloomer (or just younger I suppose) who picked this is up in its repress years, but wow, this is my favourite Surgeon of all time. I can't fully appreciate the slamming older days of some techno when given the modern sound's milieu, but this is something that hard or soft, whatever you say it is, it's golden. Four absolute classics for all occasions: Syllable, Cable, Wire, and Particle. Syllable's more of the slow burner to kick things off; builds and builds, but never really drops, just keeps teasing you along with subtle, sharp synths and a really piercing kick. Cable is third gear for me, picks things up with a menacing heavy loop and a tinge of shifting reverb. Wire is my favourite stormer on this album. I could listen to this track any time, any day. Just driving and driving, but it knows how to pull it back, work it in, and then give it all—the epitome of the perfect late night track. And Particle, well, this track is just damn cool. More akin to the introspective tone of a track like Syllable, this is definitely where Surgeon put the experiment into techno. Fits nicely into the four gear spectrum I've defined here at two, but make no mistake, this track brings it. Communications is one of my favourite works of "techno techno" (how I like to call its heavier side). Fourteen years on and it's still going strong.