Surgeon remains one of electronic music's most consistently thrilling performers. Hugely influential in techno circles since the mid nineties, his productions and DJ mixes point to constant evolution in his sound and a steady absorption of new influences.

Last year's Breaking the Frame, his first album in over ten years, struck a curveball at all those anticipating a pummelling set of textured techno tracks, instead distilling some of his listening habits of recent years — the likes of Alice Coltrane, Eliane Radigue and La Monte Young — into a very personal document, one that searched for, as he put it, 'the deep spiritual essence that lay behind the surface structures of their individual music'.

This set was recorded in October 2011 in London, when Surgeon performed as the mystery guest at a showcase night for the Blackest Ever Black label. Given Blackest Ever’s brooding trajectory, the event’s line-up struck a suitably shadowy tone, featuring label mainstays Raime, William Bennett's formidable Cut Hands project, and long-time Surgeon collaborator Regis (with whom Surgeon performed a surprise closing set under their British Murder Boys guise).

As Surgeon himself said, there was a rather strange, tense atmosphere in the club throughout the evening, due no doubt to hosting a bill of such intensely disturbed music in the heart of London's hip Shoreditch, and this tension probably comes across on this recording from the night.

This is the last set to be hosted on Spannered for the foreseeable future. Many thanks to Tony for passing the recording to us and for giving his support to the site since day one.

Tracklisting:

John Coltrane - Dearly Beloved

Surgeon - We Are All Already Here

Roly Porter - Corrin

Cub - CU1

Inigo Kennedy - Scatter

Surgeon - Exhibit

Karenn - Chaste Down

Xhin - Teeth (Surgeon remix)

Swarm Intelligence - Fighting Talk VIP

KiNK - Machines Don't Cry

Surgeon - Presence

Scorn - The Palomar

Surgeon - untitled

Blawan - Coronation

Inigo Kennedy - Cloudless

Regis - Guiltless

Surgeon - those who do not

Universal Indicator - Red

Kraftwerk - Its More Fun To Compute (Surgeon Remake)

Aphex Twin - Digeridoo (Surgeon Remake)

Emptyset - Return

Tomohiko Sagae - Deburring (Paul Damage + Makaton Wasps mix)

Ed Rush, Optical + Fierce - Alien Girl

Raudive - Over

Listen to Surgeon's For Dog Faces Only mix, recorded for Spannered

Oddcast #15 was delivered on Saturday 28 April 2012 at 01:10 hours. Weighing in at just over 70 minutes, both parent and child are doing as well as can be expected.

Music for Pregnant Ladies is a version of a mix originally put together by London-based DJ Jerome Hill for a friend of his during her pregnancy. Featuring wildly eclectic gems from the likes of Nino Ferrer, Os Mutantes and Jean-Pierre Massiera, we've been experimenting with this Oddcast in various situations and can assuredly report that it's a very fine listen even if you're not 'with child'.

Despite Jerome's legendary standing as a techno DJ, anyone who's caught him at one of his more “irregular” gigs will know of his ceaseless quest to unearth the cheekiest tunes of all genres ever to have been pressed onto vinyl (and that he's a force to reckoned with when it comes to rocking out the catchiest wedding selection).

His label, Don’t, recently reached it’s 20th release with a sturdy EP of clunking acid and jacking house by Messrs Neil Landstrumm and Matt Whitehead. If you’re in London on 8 June 2012, we strongly recommend heading along to the second of his label parties, to be held in the bowels of a decaying video shop in Dalston.

Check out Jerome’s other mixes for Spannered here and here.

Tracklisting:

Will Malone - Deathline

Unknown - Check the Brutal Music label !

Nino Ferrer - Le Telephone (English Version)

Dave Phillips & The Hotrod Gang - Tainted Love

The Boots - Alexander

Ike & Tina Turner - I Can't Believe What You Say

The Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Dandelion Wine - Hot Dog

The Nu People - I'd Be Nowhere Without You

Jean Pierre Massiera - Il Tubo

Os Mutantes - Bat Macumba

Bdly Drawn Boy - Riding with Gabriel Greenburg

Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina (Dom Thomas Edit)

The Herbaliser - Amores Bongo

Steve Martin - Gettin Small

The Cherrystones - Be Careful What You Wish For

The Free Association - Le Baggage

The Free Association - Whistlin Down The Wind

The M&S Band - Egg Roll

Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch - Bend It

Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away

Jean Paul Massiera - Dali Court

North Of Ping Pong - Reeboks

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Rag Doll

Roy Orbison - In Dreams

The latest instalment of Spannered's Oddcast series comes from none other than Glasgow's Dave Donnelly, aka Production Unit. Dave's no stranger to these pages, having previously contributed two short works of fiction about talking cows and a rather exquisite review of Autechre's Quaristice album.

Formerly a member of Glasgow's now-dispanded electronica trio the Marcia Blaine School For Girls (along with Ruaridh Law, aka The Village Orchestra), Dave's had outings under his Production Unit guise on keen-eared labels such as Highpoint Lowlife and Stuff Records. He currently has releases primed and ready for Broken20 (which helps to run with Law) and Phuturelabs. The Broken20 release, titled ICU Tracks, is a particularly intense body of work —  a stark techno set (suitably supported by remixes from Perc and Emptyset's Paul Purgas) constructed from the sound of hospital machines.

A while back, just after we got a whiff of his Mature Cheedar Dadcast for Techno Dads, we asked Dave if he'd pick up the Oddcast gauntlet for Spannered — and he's done so with gusto. "The theme is 'other music'" he tells us, "stuff that I'd probably never normally put in a mix." Well, we think he deserves one fat cigar for this epic two-hour selection, chock-full of beauty and strangeness in equal measures — and a large plastic beaker of warm sambuca for holding the dubious accolade of being the first (and probably last) mix on Spannered to feature the versatile delights of the legendary Bernard Cribbins.

Tracklisting:

Bjork - Overture

Rose and Sandy - Play Cat's Cradle

Hildur Gudnadottir - Aether

Fatimah al Zaelaeyah - Ya mun dakhal bahr al hawa (Hey, who enters the sea of passion)

Gendhing Kemanak Anglirmendung (Pelog Barang)

Drummers of the Societe Absolutment Guinin - Yanvalou

Njib Ould N’Ghaimich – Guetna

Throbbing Gristle - Exotica

Directions - Echoes (Continental Drift version)

John Coltrane - Ole

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way

The Beach Boys - Fall Breaks and Back to Winter

Scorn - White Irises Blind (Minimal Mix)

Godflesh - Christbait Rising

Scorn - Drained

John Cohen - Tar River

Coil - Triple Sun Introduction

Hype Williams - Untitled 1

Tangerine Dream - Love on a Real Train

Steve Reich - Proverb

FSOL - Papua New Guinea (Dub Mix)

Pole feat. Fat Jon - Slow Motion

Senking - Mimi

Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (Instrumental)

BFC - Sleep

Mos Def - Kalifornia

Chris Thomas King - Hard Time Killing Floor

Raphael Corderos - Rock Creak Parp

Bernard Cribbins - Winkle Picker Blues

^ New Production Unit EPs out soon on Broken20 and Phuturelabs

Loosen your tie and get down to half an hour of Bollywood oddities and sitar-fuelled strangeness (with nods to Britney, Herbie Hancock and Nancy Sinatra) from Phill Thomson, aka the Nam Shub of Enki.

Nam Shub has released a slew of solo recordings since the '90s, as well as producing for and performing with Brisbane's riotous cabaret supergroup Monster Zoku Onsomb! and new MZO splinter project Hi Freqs. He's currently roaming about Europe, sculling bottles of Belgian beer and playing outrageous live sets of mashed electronics at people in anticipation of the release of his sixth album, due out soon on Australia's Retort Records.

We've been trying to squeeze a mix from Lawrence (aka agent2) of London's Rebel Intelligence collective for some time now. Le Orme (meaning footprints) rocks out the kind of lush electronic tackle you'd expect from this exceptional connoisseur of early Chicago house, Detroit techno and deep dancefloor electro. If you've ever caught one of Lawrence's flawlessly programmed DJ sets, you'll be all over this.

The fledgling Rebel Intelligence label has a couple of great electro 12"s out by Matt Whitehead. Snap them up if you haven't already.

 

Tracklisting:

Submersible Machines - Blue Hole

Steve Summers - Dreaming in Color

DJ Sprinkles (Kink & Neville Watson Remix) - Masturjakor

Perseus Traxx - Remake 508

Murphy Jax Featuring Mike Dunn - It’s the Music

Steve Summers - Lucid Fingers

Kink & Neville Watson - The Long Wait

Elec Pt.1 - Sky 13

Risque Rythum Team - 122 House

Kink & Neville Watson - City 2 City

Virgo Four - In a Vision

Snuff Crew - Slam it

Surburban Knight - The Groove

Conforce - Black Stroke

 

Ralph Cumbers describes his latest release as "an open love letter to underground dance music culture". Out earlier this month on Magic and Dreams, Inner Space Break Free harks back to ye olde days of hardcore and rave, with influences not so much worn on its sleeve as emblazoned across the back of a friggin' great fluoro jacket.

The album is available on cassette only ("I’m releasing it on tape because I adore them, and all my music is made on a cassette 4-track, so it feels kind of right"), and is dedicated to "the tunes, DJs, soundsystems, noisy neighbours and pirate stations that have inspired me and repeatedly turned my head inside out over the last two decades", says Cumbers. Rave on, we say.

 

'Inner Space Influences' mixes up many of the classic dance tracks that influenced Inner Space. If you've not checked out Mr Clef's other mixes on Spannered, we recommend you seek out his excellent dub mixes here and here, and last year's tremendous African mix here. You can also read Spannered's interview with him from 2006.

 

Tracklisting: 

David Shrigley - What There Is

Autechre - Inhake 2

Hashim - Al-Naafyish (The Soul)

Nexus 21 - Real Love

The Beatmasters - Hey DJ / I Can't Dance

Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco

Betty Boo - Doin' the Do (remix)

A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray

Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam

Altern 8 - Real Time Status

KLF - What Time Is Love?

Inner City - Let It Reign (Altern 8 You Know the Score mix)

Plaid - Anything

Orbital - Chime (Ray Keith mix)

Sabres Of Paradise - Chapel Street Market 9am

Da Posse - In the Heat of the Night

Altern 8 - DJ Nex's Break

Rachel Wallace - Tell Me Why

Hackney Hardcore - Dancehall Dangerous

2 Bad Mice - Hold It Down

Inky Blacknuss - Drumulator

AFX - Untitled

Inky Blacknuss - Desolator

David Shrigley - What There Is

^ Inner Space Break Free (cassette + download code) is out now.

Originally recorded onto cassette. Go here for Spannered's interview with Mike Dred.

Meticulously assembled then recorded down onto cassette, London producer Matt Whitehead reworks and splices together his two 30-minute sets from this year's Bloc Weekend (one performance being at Brackout, the tribute to the much-missed Ben Bracket that kickstarted the festval).

 

Along with material released collaboratively as Cyantific and Signal Type, Matt has two essential electro 12"s out under his own name for London's Rebel Intelligence collective.

 

Like his set from 2010's Bloc Weekend, this is the real deal.

 

Play it loud.

  

Tracklisting:

Hollywood And The Heat - I Need You / (1988) Westside Records - 00:17

"Fast Eddie" Smith - Jack The House / (1987) Underground - 01:24

Reese - Just Want Another Chance / (1988) Incognito Records - 00:39

Julian Jonah - Jealousy And Lies / (1988) Cooltempo - 02:11

Nami Shimada - Sunshower (Original Version) / (1991) Colombia - 03:36

Fallout - Morning After (Sunrise Mix) / (1987) Fourth Floor Records - 04:07

Fast Eddie - Jack To The Sound Of The Underground / (1988) D.J. International Records - 04:54

Fingers Inc - Distant Planet / (1988) Jack Trax - 04:54

Jungle Wonz - Bird In A Guilded Cage / (1993) Trax Records - 05:33

Virgo Four - In A Vision / (1989) Trax Records - 06:59

Joe Smooth - Inside My Mind / (1988) D.J. International Record - 07:07

Rocky Jones - Choice Of A New Generation / (1987) D.J. International Records - 09:43

Risque III - Essence Of A Dream / (1987) Stride Records Inc - 11:12

Rhythm Track

Tony Sineni - Rhythm Of The Beat / (Kenny Jammin Jason's Mix) (1987) Hot Mix 5 - 13:12

Rhythm Track

Xperiment - Karn Evil #10 (Club) / (1987) Underworld Records - 15:00

Rhythm Track

Chicago Music Syndrome - Work It / (1987) Dance-Sing Records - 15:47

Rhythm Track

Risque Rhythm Team - More Than Just A Dance / (1988) Chicago Connection Records -16:26

Rhythm Track

Risque Rhythm Team - The Jacking Zone / (1986) Chicago Connection Records - 17:35

Rhythm Track

Mr. Lee - Come To House / (1987) Trax Records - 18:30

Rhythm Track

Jackmaster Dick - Sensuous Woman Goes Disco / (1986) Trax Records - 19:31

Rhythm Track + TB-303 - 19:31

Jack Frost & The Circle Jerks - Cool Dry / (1988) Trax Records - 20:18

Rhythm Track

Cool McCool - World Turns Around / (1988) Hot Mix 5 - 20:48

MDIII - Set Me Free / (1988) Underground - 21:35

Rhythm Track

Maurice - This Is Acid (Original Mix) / (1988) Trax Records - 22:36

Maurice - This Is Acid (A New Dance Craze) (K&T Mix) / (1988) Breakout - 23:19

Members Of The House - Share This House (Radio Version) / (1988) ITM Records - 24:12

Rodney Bakerr presents Mystic - House Girl (Serge & Tyrell Edit) / (2007) Clone Classic Cuts - 25:37

Gentry Ice - Utilize The Beat / (1988) Westside Records - 26:23

The Housefactors - Play It Loud / (1988) Black Market International - 26:54

Phuture Pfantasy Club - Spank Spank / (1988) Low Fat Vinyl - 28:18

Maurice Joshua - I Got A Big Dick (with Hot Hands Hula instrumental) / (1988) Trax Records - 28:42

Adonis - Lost In Sound / (1988) Jack Trax - 29:50

A Guy Called Gerald - Blow Your House Down / (1988) Rham! - 30:05

MDIII - Face The Nation / (1988) Underground - 31:37

Rhythm Track + TB-303 – 32:01

Juan - Techno Music / (1988) 10 Records – 32:55

Bam Bam - Where Is Your Child (1988) Desire Records – 33:56

Rhythm Track + TB-303 – 34:27

Rhythm Track

House Master Boyz And The Rude Boy Of House - House Nation / (1986) Dance Mania – 35:43

On The House - Pleasure Control (Radio) / (1986) Bright Star Records - 36:00

Kissing The Pink - Certain Things Are Likely (Garage) (1986) Magnet – 37:24

Rhythm Track

Steve 'Silk' Hurley - Jack Your Body (Club Your Body) / (1986) London Records – 39:09

Rhythm Track

Z Factor - Fantasy / (1984) Mitchbal Records – 39:19

Risque Rhythm Team - 122 House / (1986) Chicago Connection Records – 39:19

Rhythm Track

Julian Jumpin" Perez - Jack Me 'Til I Scream (Jumpin' Mix) / (1987) D.J. International Records – 39:26

Rocky Jones - Choice Of A New Generation / (1987) D.J. International Records – 39:41

Subject - The Magic, The Moment (1985) Pow Wow Records - 40:28

Rhythm Track

Ron Hardy - Liquid Love (Instrumental Mix) / (1997) Mirakkle Records - 40:36

Ron Hardy - Sensation (Dub) / (1985) Trax Records - 41:22

Rhythm Track

Kevin Saunderson - Bounce Your Body To The Box / (1988) Kool Kat Music - 43:32

Farley "Jackmaster" Funk - This Acid Life / (1988) House Records - 44:18

Rhythm Track

Cool McCool - World Turns Around / (1988) Hot Mix 5 - 44:34

The Party Boy - The Twilight Zone / (1988) Urban - 45:27

Farley "Jackmaster" Funk - It's You (House Mix) / (1987) D.J. International Records - 46:06

Rhythm Track

Dr Derelict - That Shits Wild / (1988) Trax Records - 46:21

Rhythm Track

Gene Hunt - Living In a Land / (1989) Housetime Records - 46:29

Fingers - Ecstasy / (1988) Hot Mix 5 - 47:36

Rhythm Track

Mr. Fingers - Washing Machine / (1986) Trax Records - 47:54

Raze - Jack The Groove / (1986) Grove Street Records - 48:59

Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back / (2006) Jive - 49:29

Rhythm Track + TB-303 + SH-101

K. Alexi Shelby - My Medusa (1989) Transmat - 52:03

Rythim Is Rythim - Nude Photo / (1987) Transmat - 52:24

Rhythm Track

Maurice Joshua - I Got A Big Dick (with Hot Hula Hands) / (1988) Trax Records - 52:54

Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4 / (1984) Inteam GmbH - 53:43

Mr. Fingers - Can You Feel It / (1986) Trax Records - 53:43

Rhythm Track

Baby Ford - Fordtrax / (1988) Rhythm King Records - 54:14

Marcus Mixx - Without Makeup (Ron Hardy Mix) / (2006) Let's Pet Puppies - 54:29

Mr. Fingers - Ammnesia / (1989) Jack Trax - 55:15

Jack Frost - Cool Dry / (1987) FLEX Records - 55:46

Reese & Santonio - The Sound / (1988) Kool Kat Music - 56:09

Adonis - Rockin Down The House / (1986) Trax Records - 56:09

Rhythm Track

Arnold Jarvis - Take Some Time Out (Dub / Instrumental) (1987) Fourth Floor Records - 56:24

Frankie Knuckles - Your Love / (1989) Btech - 56:40

Arnold Jarvis - Take Some Time Out (Original Club Mix) / (1987) Fourth Floor Records - 56:47

Fingers Inc. - Mystery Of Love (Club Mix) / (1986) D.J. International Records - 57:02

Mayday - Wiggin (Master Reese Mix) / (1988) Pheerce Citi - 59:34

Rhythm Track

Jean Luc Ponty - Computer Incantations For World Peace / (1983) Atlantic - 01:00:06

Put together by Bomb Diggy's mix monkey for a lousy two crates of bananas, some pineapple juice, and a bottle of Dominican rum, this roaring selection of dancefloor scorchers originally aired last month on Holland's DJBroadcast site.

 

The Bomb Diggy crew are purveyors of the most tropical party nights in Holland, with resident DJs Mataklap, Makks, Ru-D and Tommy Tequila plus guests spinning global bass music spanning kuduro, booty, soca, dancehall, ragga, cumbia and baile funk — with plenty of jungle bounce thrown in. Head over to their site for info on upcoming Bomb Diggy gigs and radio shows, and to check out their splendid Bombcast mix series.

 

Tracklisting:

Bomb Diggy Intro

Mexican Dubwiser ft. Candice Cannabis - Cumbia of the Great

DJ Dus - Por Vida

Aniceto Molina - El Campanero (Krunk Kumbias Remix)

Sabo - Soundboy Cumbia

Super Guachin - Cumbiandero

Alvaro -Make it Funky (Dj Punish Remix) (Max le Daron RaveCumbiaTon Refix)

Zonora Point - Huachita Rica (Douster remix)

Sonido del Principe vs Zomby - Shake that Strange Fruit

Suckafish P. Jones - Cloak and Dagger Empire

Munchi - Metele Bellaco

Villa Diamante - Frikstailers vs Calle 13

Uproot Andy - Brooklyn Cumbia (ODB Mix)

Uproot Andy - Brooklyn Cumbia

Chief Boima - Techno Rumba (Uproot Andy Remix)

The Very Best - Nsokoto

Myd - Train To Bamako

Douster - King of Africa

WILDLIFE! - Jumbie (Original Mix)

The Count & Sinden - Mega (Original Mix)

MJ Cole - AO Feat. Serocee (Zed Bias Wind Up Mix)

Major Lazer, Harold Faltermeyer - Pon De Foley (Ludachrist Remix)

Sam Tiba - Barbie Weed

Diamond Bass - Seruma

Orion - Sueltala (Orion Edit)

DJ Dus - Cumbioso

Swappi - Dis Gyal (Nah Go Play)

Skeat - Dumelang

Mujava - Mugwanti (Schlachthofbronx Remix)

Debruit - Nigeria What?

Ku Bo - Sumanita Feat. Daniecell (Daniel Haaksman Remix)

Radioclit - Secousse All-Stars

Octa Push - Ai Nadia

12th Planet & Juakali - Reasons

Blaxx Feat. Wendell Manwarren - Zombie

Ricky T - Pressure Boom

Olantunji Yearwood - Get Wild

Ghislain Poirier ft. Mc Slaughter - Get Wild

Ghislain Poirier ft. Face-T - Wha-La-La-Leng (Uproot Andy RMX)

Shaggy - Mr. Boombastic

Mykol Orthodox - Im The Roughest Rmx (Cocoa Tea)

Listen up! That's right, here's a brand new mix from arch beatfreak and master of mischievous melody, Bogdan Raczynski.

 

Many of you will know Bogdan from his slew of releases on Rephlex over the past decade (if not, head straight to 1999's seminal Samurai Math Beats). Aside from writing music that makes you feel completely out of your gourd, he's also an accomplished preparer of delicious foodstuffs — something we at Spannered admire greatly in a person.

 

Following on from 1999's compendious Mix #1, Mix #2 unfurls a tracklisting that's nearly as meaty as Bogdan's Fat Polish Man Bigos.

 

At least this shouldn't fug out your bathroom as much... ;)

 

Tracklisting:

Dimitri - The Stud

Harmonic 313 - Flaash

DS-10 Dominator - Kink In the Cable

DJ Nehpets - Mario (16 Bit)

DJ Milton - House Clap

The Royal City Saxophone Quarter - Ragtime For Rent

Fake Tuss - RIP Acid

Benga - Baltimore Clap

DJ Milton - 1999

Skream - Clap Your Hands

Starski and Clutch - Bounce

Yotam Avni - Coke Bouquet

Hirokazu Tanaka - Metroid Kraid

James Blake - Postpone

The Other People Place - Let Me Be Me

Floating Points remix of Sing by Four Tet

Ruckspin - Jibber

Girl Unit - IRL

Skream - Clap Your Hands

Redlight feat Roses Gabor - Stupid (instrumental)

Skream - Clap Your Hands

Benga - Baltimore Clap

Skream - Clap Your Hands

Benga - Baltimore Clap

Jamie Principle - Baby Wants To Ride (Be Quiet Jamie edit)

Floating Points - Shark Chase

LOL Boys remix of Cannibalistic by Expendable Youth

Armando - Don't Take It (Thomos edit)

The Other People Place - Let Me Be Me

FCL - Let's Go

Motor City Drum Ensemble - There's A Truth (feat Stee Downess)

Cylob - Morning

Nick Holder - Feelin' Sad

Nick Holder - Da Sambafrique

Thom Yorke - Cymbal Rush

Floating Points - Shark Chase

Marie Pierre - Choose Me

Dimitri- The Stud

Marie Pierre - Choose Me

Floating Points - Shark Chase

Dimitri- The Stud

Automatic Tasty - This Site Is No Longer In Operation. Thank You.

Mr. Incognito - Die Andere Welt

^ Listen to Mix #1 by Bogdan Raczynski

^ Read Overload Media's interview with Bogdan from 2001