Luminosity Device

Seit den 90ern gehört Surgeon a.k.a. Anthony Child zu den konsequenten Techno-Produzenten, deren Fähigkeiten Transzendenz auf dem Floor erreichen lassen. Surgeon war an Musikprojekten mit dem „Napalm Death“-Schlagzeuger Mick Harris, British Murder Boys (mit Regis), und Frequenz 7 (mit Ben Sims) beteiligt. Er war drei Jahre lang Resident-DJ im Berliner Club Tresor. Außerdem ist Child Gründer und Besitzer der beiden Labels Counterbalance und Dynamic Tension. Viele andere Produktionen sind auf Labels wie Tresor Records, Soma Quality Recordings, und Harthouse erschienen. Child gilt als einer der ersten DJs, die in ihren DJ-Sets mit Ableton Live und Final Scratch auflegten. Auf seinem neuen Full-Length Album nimmt er "Bardo Thödol", das sogenannte Tibetan Book of the Dead als Ausgangspunkt für eine musikalische Reise durch Raum und Zeit und schafft einzigartige Klangbilder.
Since the 1990s, Anthony Child has been one of the most consistent and pivotal electronic music producers to use that craft as a tool for achieving transcendence. Under his aptly chosen DJ-ing and production alias Surgeon, his technical precision and clarity of creative vision have resulted in a highly influential form of techno-mesmerism documented in exhaustive live sets and incisive studio recordings. His talent for wielding beats and sonic textures as healing technologies and as magical weapons simultaneously, and particularly for excelling in “long-form” treatments, has made him not only a key contributor to the legacies of touchstone labels Tresor and Downwards, but also a prized collaborator (his British Murder Boys duo with Regis has capitalized on both producers’ natural intensity to devastating effect).
The pure techno idiom has never been his sole method of exploring the vastness of inner space, or of illustrating the interaction of thought and memory with the external environment: the work published under his own name (e.g. the two-volume set Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle), along with newer collaborations like the Transcendence Orchestra with Daniel Bean, have shown Child to have a masterful knowledge of the intimate qualities of drone and atmospheric sound: the sound-scaping talent utilized in these projects is capable of drawing out acute emotional reactions from a broad spectrum of listeners.