Basictonalvocabulary

Surgeon strips Birmingham techno down to pressure, repetition and sharply controlled space on Basictonalvocabulary. The tracks feel severe without becoming blunt, each small movement given enough room to register. The discipline is audible in the gaps. Severity is an acquired taste, but UK techno acquired it from here.

Birmingham answering Berlin: drier, harder, built by a man who performs live rather than assembles at home. British industrial techno stops being a local scene here and becomes a lineage.