{"product_id":"surgeon-shell-wave-2026-repress","title":"SURGEON - Shell~Wave (2026 Repress)","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Bewitching, mysterious and emotive..Northamptonshire electronic music legend Anthony Child taps deep into the essence of techno to find a core of swirling psychedelia’ - \u003cstrong\u003eThe Quietus - Album Of The Week\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eShell~Wave\u003c\/em\u003e bottles the veteran's personal experience with his machines and delivers it to listeners with the improvisation of a free jazz musician. Given his curiosity and risk-taking, he isn't far from becoming the Pharaoh Sanders of UK techno.' - \u003cstrong\u003eResident Advisor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 x 140g black vinyl, full printed special color sleeve (gold \u0026amp; blue pantone), download card included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo years after releasing the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eCrash Recoil\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAnthony Child\u003c\/strong\u003e aka \u003cstrong\u003eSurgeon\u003c\/strong\u003e returns to Tresor with new LP, \u003cem\u003eShell~Wave\u003c\/em\u003e. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, \u003cem\u003eShell~Wave\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“To make this project, I had to dig really deep in terms of what my relationship was to techno; I’ve been involved with it for a really long time and there’s a lot about it I feel dislocated from, so I had to really think hard about what techno is to me. I often get asked “what is techno to you?” but I can’t answer that with words; this album is the answer.” From the complex, twisting track \u003cem\u003eInfinite Eye\u003c\/em\u003e to the caustic \u003cem\u003eSoul Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, the eight tracks that make up the body of the album are single-take explorations of the vast, hard yet minimal techno Child is synonymous with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeatly dividing the record in two, the emotional centre of the record comes in the form of \u003cem\u003eDying\u003c\/em\u003e, a vibrating, beatless piece that with a mantra-like vocal loop steeped in reverberating effects. Further echoes of dub production appear throughout the record as tracks like \u003cem\u003eDivine Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eEmpty Cloud\u003c\/em\u003e have an almost ever-present mist of reverberation, driven by the appearance of a new delay unit in the equipment list; while much of the philosophy of \u003cem\u003eCrash Recoil\u003c\/em\u003e’s creation is present, the process and the instruments have changed as Child again switches up his approach to studio work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis insistence on trying novel techniques doesn’t preclude returning to old ones, as this use of modern digital machines with live, hands-on takes that are as inspired by 60s producer \u003cstrong\u003eJoe Meek\u003c\/strong\u003e and 70s reggae as they are by this year’s synthesiser expos. “For me, it’s an interesting experience returning to old techniques again after 30 years. [I’m] always exploring and finding myself back at the beginning. Connecting the present with the past.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis philosophy of ‘time travel’ is inherent to the music itself as the synchronised loops repeat while the delay and effects branch out, forming unique eddies; distinct quantum moments within the circular whole; the future leaking through the spaces between the sounds. All of the concepts on the album are perfectly communicated through the painting by Taiwanese artist \u003cstrong\u003eJazz Szu-Ying Chen\u003c\/strong\u003e which suggests the movement of water, sound waves, and the chitinous shells of sea creatures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tresor","offers":[{"title":"140g Black Vinyl 2LP (2026 Repress)","offer_id":59095827546457,"sku":"SDZ-51016","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/PID-26920-96-002.png?v=1787584921","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/surgeon-shell-wave-2026-repress","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}