From m. abrahamsson Sent Sat, Feb 27th 1999, 13:12
>> There is also a previous album that I do not have. > Also there is >a host of 12 inch singles but I do not > have access to them at work.=20 >So someone else will > have to comment. > >It's called Communications. And it's pretty hard minimal. It's been a >while since I have played it so I can't really comment on tracks. It's >very much in the same minimalist direction has his early work. Very >good. > Surgeon "Communications" (Downwards LP1 - 2x12") this Anthony Child production was released in '96. no ambient, just a = few decent percussive and some bleepy tracks. this is far from his best = work. haven't listened to this in a year or so, and i'm not even gonna = put it on now because it's just doesn't do it for me. don't like it at = all. stay away from this one, unless you're a hardcore Surgeonoist, and = my guess is that those are rare on a list like this one. >My favorite singles by him are Muggerscumout (Soma), Pet 2000 >(Downwards), and Magneze (Downwards). > on the two first i totally agree with you, but i don't think i've heard = Magneze so i couldn't comment on that one. and btw these aren't ambient, = just wacky tracky 909 w/ distortion. don't think Muggerscum Out has been = repressed, so that one could be a bitch to find, but i'm not really = sure. >Most of his early stuff is pretty good. Some of the 12"s he released >after Basic Tonal Vocabulary were getting kind of strange. I remember >not really liking the singles Patience and Learning. They weren't bad, >just not what I was looking for. > listened to those two when they first came out. didn't like them. = beware. >That's kind of what hoped that Cari Lekebusch and Adam Beyer would do. >I thought they were really good for a while but they seem to be in a >monotone rut.=20 > talking of what Cari Lekebusch should do i think he should go back to = the way Hybrid used to sound a few years ago and talking about Hybrid i = have some information which could be interesting for the swedes on the = list... Hybrid is selling out a some of their older stuff at their website = (http://www.algonet.se/~hybridpd). i remember seeing stuff like Sound = Architectures (HYBCD 001, vinyl version sold out a long time ago - = contains remixes of HYB 01-10), Sir Augustus Granith Hall "The Kattajaq = Story" (APCD 002, very good odd tribal stuff from Cari Lekebusch), = Tupilaq "Vaisen EP" (AP1201, very good ambient from Krister Linder), = Cari Lekebusch "Yellow Blood" (AP1202, ambient electro or whatever, i = can't remember what this one was like) + new mixtapes from Lekebusch, = some other old Hybrid releases and slipmats. i think the Hybrid homepage said that these items could only be ordered = in Sweden only. but check the web just in case, my mind could be = buggin'. luv, bauri http://www.underjord.net