SURGEON – FIXED ACTION PATTERN

Title: Fixed Action Pattern
Artist: Surgeon
Label: Token
Genre: Techno, Industrial
Catalog number: TOKEN46
Format: 12"
Condition: Media: Near Mint / Sleeve: Near Mint

Anthony Child has appeared on Token once before in 2008 remixing Grovskopa's Sex & Violins, and while regularly supporting the label's music in his DJ sets, it's been a long awaited six years for UK techno's most trusted producer to resurface on an imprint he's helped inspire and influence. Surgeon's two-track Fixed Action Pattern certifies Token's credentials as a titan power in the world of no frills, industrially hardened techno, and this 46th release since the label took shape in 2007 follows this year's Vaudeville LP by Inigo Kennedy, Rich Oddie and Ancient Method's relentless debut as Eschaton, Ctrls' fifth EP for Token, more quality output as usual from Ø [Phase], and Christian Wünsch & Oscar Mulero's second release for Kr!z as Spherical Coordinates.

Combining distorted drums similar to his earlier works on Dynamic Tension with a rusted synth progression Inigo Kennedy enthusiasts will inherently gravitate toward, "Fixed Action Pattern" is a bona-fide, rhythmically broken, Surgeon classic. For a second option Child provides a spatial dub version Lee "Scratch" Perry would produce had industrial techno been his thing, sequencing a loosened variant of drums disjointed by the injured swing of its tempo, cloaked in the lonesome moans of a distant fog horn, subtle feedback loops and splashes of space echo.