Sat Oct 29th - SURGEON & DEZ WILLIAMS at The Twisted Pepper

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[Beatyard]
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Saturday October 29th
at The Twisted Pepper

SURGEON [Counterbalance - Birmingham]
DEZ WILLIAMS [Elektronik Religion - Holy Island (UK)] - Live
Joe Morrissey [Subject]

Doors: 10:30pm / Adm: e15/e12. Advance tickets - e12 from:
www.tickets.ie and All City, Spindizzy & Plugd | www.bodytonicmusic.com/store | www.ticketmaster.ie | www.residentadvisor.net

Surgeon - www.djsurgeon.com
Birmingham techno artist Anthony Child has rapidly built a solid and, to a certain extent, innovative catalog of minimal dancefloor techno since his Surgeon releases began appearing in 1991. Compared favorably with Detroit original Jeff Mills from his earliest Downwards singles on forward, Child's tracks have been a mainstay in the popular Motor City DJ's sets. Although Surgeon releases have worked an increasing affectation for acid and trance, an economy of sound and basic hardness combine his and Mills' sound.

A noted and increasingly popular DJ himself, Child grokked his skills from hip-hop and electro jocks ["Tour de France" is a mainstay of his DJ sets], filling out his style with a driving toughness and appreciation for rapid cutting and flipping. Surgeon's entry into production was also noteworthy; urged on by producer Mick Harris (Child is a fan of Harris' Scorn project), the former Napalm Death drummer locked Child in his tiny studio, imploring him to "go mad." The result, the self-titled debut EP, was released on Downwards, and was instantly hailed as some of the highest quality U.K. techno of its time. Releases for Soma, Blueprint, Ideal Trax, and the ultra-exclusive Tresor label followed, with the debut LP, Basic Tonal Vocabulary, appearing on Tresor in 1997. Balance followed in 1998, as did Force & Form in 1999.

More recent additions to his repertoire include releases on his Counterbalance imprint as well as collaborations with Regis as British Murder Boys, resulting in tracks which take a tone far darker, denser, and more industrial than those from his Tresor years.

Equally influenced by early electro-pop innovators like Tomita and YMO, experimental groups like Can, Faust, and Suicide, and the tough grit of American electro and techno [Robert Hood, Hashim], Surgeon's mash-up is both straightforward and subtly experimental. Further influences from Coil, Psychic TV, and Whitehouse in recent works and DJ appearances do not go unnoticed.

Dez Williams - www.myspace.com/dezwilliamsmusic
Holy Island, an island off of the coast of North Wales is where Dez Williams begun spinning wax at an early age and now maintains his humble analogue / digital studio. Isolated from the marketing, fashion and pretentious attitudes that plague the music industry, Dez is free to express himself through his machines. Safe from this environment he is unconstrained and has no urge to conform with any ideal or aesthetic and thus his electronic music is pure self expression. A window into his soul.

His day job at an electronic components factory means that he is no stranger to repetition, rhythm and electronics. His sound is perhaps a product of his daily grind with boredom, escapism, events in his life and a long term passion for technology, horror and science fiction. Inspired by many of the classic Chicago / Detroit / electro / techno producers, like the finest, his sound is unique, uncompromising and unpredictable. His vision of techno is deep and futuristic with a heavy dose of funk.

Dez's passion for sound and the darker side of the human spirit compels him to create tracks on an almost daily basis and he sits on an incredibly vast archive of cassettes, mini-discs and CD's of his work. Yet his reclusive nature dictates that his release schedule remains sparse. His tracks can range from driving techno, to melancholy and dark synthesizer orchestrations, ghostly deep listening, straight up electro cuts and beyond. Sometimes simple, sometimes complex, within his sounds are vast amounts of detail for the listener to decipher. Emotions transmitted through mathematics and code. Williams' tracks have found their way into the sets of DJ's like Dave Clarke, Adam X, John Peel, Ellen Allien, Mike Dred and Rob Hall. He has constantly retained an underground / cult fanbase.

His debut LP 'Elektronik Religion' for the SCSI label was hailed as "One of the very few truly great electro albums of the new century". Dez remains true to the underground and simply creates for the love and need to do so. The mark of a true artist. He continues to DJ and play live sets and has had releases on a variety of labels including Acruacreee, Ai, Cheap, SCSI, Blase, Voodoo, and Ben Sims' Native imprint...

Links:
www.dj-surgeon.com
www.subjectevents.com
www.thetwistedpepper.com
www.bodytonicmusic.com/beatyard
www.myspace.com/dezwilliamsmusic
www.soundcloud.com/subjectevents/subcast_001
Facebook Event Page: http://on.fb.me/o2kSjP
Resident Advisor Event Page: http://bit.ly/p0EjkH

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Mixes //

Surgeon at Trouw, Amsterdam, Sept 2011: http://bit.ly/nsRAJ2
Dez Williams - Bodytonic Podcast, Oct 2011: http://bit.ly/q8kdtI
Joe Morrissey - Subcast_001, Sept 2011: http://bit.ly/okvwBE

Advance tickets - e12 [+ Bf] //

Online:
www.tickets.ie
www.residentadvisor.net
www.bodytonicmusic.com/beatyard

Shops:
Dublin: All City & Spindizzy
Cork: Plugd
& all usual Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.

www.subjectevents.com

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Competition //

To win guestlist for this Saturday at The Twisted Pepper, share the event page: http://on.fb.me/o2kSjP on Facebook and then leave your name in the comments on the event wall.

Non-Facebook users can enter by answering the following question; What is the name of Surgeon's recent album... Answers to: info[at]subjectevents[dot]com w/ Surgeon in the subject line.

We have 3 x double passes up for grabs. Winners will be notified at lunchtime on Friday. Good luck!

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Set Times //

12:30am - Close: Surgeon
11:30pm - 12:30am: Dez Williams - Live
10:30pm - 11:30pm: Joe Morrissey

Ticket competition runs until lunchtime today...