Review of Surgeon that I posted to ie-dance:

Holy sweatbox! The Electric City guys need to get a massive fan or
something and stick it up the front of the club, I couldn’t stand near
the front for more than a few minutes before it got too hot for me
(might have been what I was wearing though).

Overall I really enjoyed his set although I preferred the first hour
the most. He started off with some chopped up Kraftwerk thing (It’s
More Fun To Compute? It was hard to tell) and then played a few
electroy breaksy things before heading into the harder techno and
broken beat stuff. Almost every track he played was edited or twisted
in some way, or else had elements of other tracks playing under them
constantly (eg, he played a grime track called “Angels” by Vex’d on
Planet Mu but stuck this British Murder Boys esq broken beat loop
under it).

With help from Giles Armstrong and Chris Rooney I spotted these:

69 - one of the tracks off Four Jazz Funk Classics
Two (I think) Jeff Mills Purpose Maker tracks
Oliver Ho - Track 2 from the Light & Dark Part Eight EP (Light & Dark)
Funk D’Void - Jack Me Off (Soma)
Osbourne - Bout Ready To Jak [Anthony Shakir Mix] (Spectral)
Surgeon - La Real (Counterbalance)
A few British Murder Boys things (surprise surprise)
DHS - House Of God [Surgeon Mix]
Santos Rodriguez - B2 (I think) off the Road to Rio EP (Cosmic ID)
AFX (ie Aphex Twin) - Elephant Song (Rephlex)
Aphex Twin - The loud part from the end of Windowlicker, mixed in
pretty cleverly with some other stuff (Jay Galligan almost wet himself
when he heard it)

Near the end he played a cut up version of Kraftwerk’s Boing Boom
Tschak and a really timestretched up version of Man Parrish’s Hip-Hop
Be-Bop.

The latter part of his set went a bit hard for me but there was
definitely something for everybody in there. A few people where
commenting that he wasn’t using headphones. He was using Ableton Live
and I’m pretty sure he had everything pre-beatmatched up already, so
it was a case of dropping in elements/loops/kicks/snares etc and then
putting effects over them rather than traditional “mixing” on the fly.

A great crowd too, although these people should be coming down
regularly, not just when there are big guests on! They really need to
sort out the ventilation though.

Photos from Surgeon here! (also check the photos section up there for photos of Green Velvet and Morgan Geist from last week)

Tonight I’m going to Diplo, he’s support by the lovely Nic James and it’s on in RiRa! Tomorrow I’m heading down to Galway but I’ll be back on Sunday in time to play at the Big Brother/ISPCC charity gig in Carnival at 11pm (I’m replacing Pablo). Full details of the charity gig here. It’s going to be great and it’s for a good cause so get your asses down!