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Tony Child aka Surgeon is one of the musicians currently setting the standard for performing with Ableton Live software. Recorded in October 2005 at !emergency! in Bristol, Surgeon navigates through deep, frazzled techno terrain, dropping in curveballs from Squarepusher to Horace Andy along the way.

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^ Photo credits: Wataru Umeda

^ Listen to Surgeon's 2007 mix For Dog Faces Only

^ Read Overload Media's feature with Surgeon in 2000

Previously broadcast on Itch FM and Ninja Tune's Solid Steel show.

Tracklisting:

Pharaoh Saunders - Greetings To Saud (Impulse)

Dwight Trible - Antiquity (Ninja Tune)

Wajeed - Starz (Bling47)

Prefuse 73 - We Got It Our Own Way (Warp)

Prefuse 73 - Desks Pencils Bottles (Warp)

Dabrye - Smoking The Edge (Ghostly International)

Dabrye - Magic Says (Ghostly International)

Dwight - Trible Waves Of Infinite Harmony (Ninja Tune)

J Dilla - Lightworks (Stone's Throw)

Ammoncontact - Drum Riders (Ninja Tune)

Oh No Stomp - That (Stone's Throw)

Denis Brown & The Heptones (Lbe Production)

Alton Ellis - I Can't Stand It (Treasure Isle)

J Dilla - Gobstopper (Stone's Throw)

Gwen Mcrae - 90% Of Me Is You (Cat)

J Dilla - Airworks (Stone's Throw)

Smokey Robinson - Virgin Man (Motown)

Pomoja - Ooh Baby (Lotus Land)

J Dilla - Two Can Win (Stone's Throw)

Orchestre Du Bawobab - Kelen Ati Len (Sound.Way)

J Dilla - People (Stone's Throw)

I-roy - Sound Education (Fe-me-time)

Freddie McGregor - Natural Collie (Soul Jazz)

Top Secret! (Forthcoming on DC Recordings, 2007)

Dion - I Was Born To Cry (Laurie)

Recorded in the back of a Hackney chip shop in September 2005.

Tracklisting:

Mashonda - Welcome to Harlem (ClubBangaz)

Nettle - Minesweeper Dub (Agriculture)

DJ /rupture - Bonechip (Tigerbeat6)

Osymyso - It's All About Fun. Right? (Noodles Institute of Technology)

Tipper –Tip Hop 2 (Tipper Music)

Funkstorung - Nipple Twist (!K7)

Ben Milstein - Tube Test (Outside)

Funkstorung - Punk Motherfucker (!K7)

Luke Vibert - Cash 'n' Carry Acid (Planet Mu)

Marvin Gaye - I heard it through the grapevine (Motown)

Octagon Man - Eff Emm (DC Recordings)

Kode 9 + The Space Ape - Kingstown (Hyperdub)

Scuba - Sleepa (Hot Flush)

Plasticman - Death By Stereo (Rephlex)

Scuba - Timba (Hot Flush)

Slaughter Mob - Pull Up (Urban Graffiti)

Bass Kittens - Onion Burst (Bow Wow)

Skinnz - Corner (Destructive)

Bass Kittens - Rise of the Machine (Bow Wow)

Eric H - The Lights (Search and Destroy mix) (Hot Flush)

Noyeahno - Isn't It Powerful (Rag and Bone)

Speed Baby - Lurcher (Bow Wow)

Slaughter Mob - Dub Weapon (Soulja)

Milanese - Billy Hologram (Warp)

Slaughter Mob - Saddam (Soulja)

Hawerchuk - Camel Toe (Planet Mu)

Psi Spy Vs Formless - Locked (Pyramid Transmissions)

Vex'd - Fire (Planet Mu)

Baby Ford - Normal (Aphex Twin Helston Flora remix) (Rephlex)

Vex'd - Angels (Planet Mu)

Michael Forshaw - Kill the BB Caps (Chan 'n' Mikes)

Bitstream - Orange Room (Modern Love)

Skream - Ain't It Cold (Destructive)

Exile - Deathface (Mosquito)

Vex'd - Crusher Dub (Planet Mu)

Mystery Artist - A1 (Skam)

Derek Michael - Wasted Again (Detroit Underground)

Rhythm And Sound - Jah Version (Basic Channel)

Dick Mills - Adagio (BBC Radiophonic Workshop/Rephlex)

UK MC Doc Brown here trades in the whimsical universality of the Tears For Fears lyrics for a stark but affecting account of why exactly his world is going crazy and adds a lilting hip hop beat to the catchy piano hook of the original. A coherent social consciousness – he alludes to 'the tramp with his change cup' – underpins the fierce brutalism of his account of why we're going nowhere: 'It's a disgrace / this place is like a whorehouse / the crooked system's the pimp / that's got us working till we're worn out'. An unnamed collaborator comes in on the second verse to give an account of his education which is so much more detailed and evocative than the original's assertion that 'I was very nervous / no one knew me'. Doc Brown's idea that insanity is to do with being 'a rat trapped in the system / of capitalism' is compelling and his powerful delivery contrasts perfectly with Gary Jules' ethereal vocal. This version deserves to displace the original in the public consciousness – it would be a mad world if it didn't.