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Listen to Surgeon on http://rinse.fm second Wednesday of each month: 23:00 – 01:00 GMT
Live on 106.8 FM if you're in London or on http://rinse.fm website.

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Surgeon - Returning To The Purity Of Current - Tresor [1999]
Makaton - Swarms Of New Flies - Rodz-Konez [2006]
Aaron Spectre - Say More Fire - Rag & Bone [2007]
Oscar Mulero - Friday Thirteen - Warm Up Recordings [2003]
Scuba - Ruptured (Surgeon remix) - Hotflush Recordings [2008]
Martyn - Suburbia - Apple Pips [2008]
Osborne - Bout Ready To Jack (Shake's mix) - Spectral Sound [2004]
Fumes - Jack 2000 - Logistic Records [2005]
Inigo Kennedy - Aching To Get Beneath - Asymmetric [2006]
Plasticman - Camel Ride - Rephlex [2004]
Geeneus - Say It - Dump Valve Recordings [2003]
Go Hiyama - Geometrical - Audio Assault [2008]
Bjorn Svin - Sick Eyes - Iron Oxide [2005]
Surgeon - Dry part3 - Dynamic Tension [1999]
Leo Anibaldi - Attack Random - ACV [1992]
Robert Hood - Untitled A2 - M-Plant [1994]
Scanone - Kick It - Combat Recordings [2004]
Radial - Dynamo - PVC [2007]
Boxcutter - Skuff'd - Planet Mu [2006]
Crooked One - Annihilation - Starksound [2007]
Mr 76ix - Rodz - Skam [2005]
Sterac - Liteon - Tresor [2000]
Nathan Fake - Undoing The Laces - Traum Schallplatten [2005]
Trolley Route - Still - Evidence [2008]

Surgeon - Rinse FM broadcast 12th February 2014

M_Rec Ltd 21 - Forward Strategy Group - Levity

A: A Marvel
B1: Levity
B2: Learned

Release date: June 2014 (Vinyl)

OVERVIEW:
The duo behind Forward Strategy Group returns with their first release in almost a year. Following the success of the “Labour Division” album and “The New Formal” EP (both on Perc Trax), Al Matthews (Bleaching Agent, half of Blacknecks) and Patrick Walker have worked with Max_M and his M_Rec Ltd. to bring three complex and hypnotic cuts to vinyl fans and djs around the world.
“A Marvel” sounds like an ode to the label’s vision. It’s a trippy and layered loop made of molded, elastic sounds that subtly mutate, aided by a warm, but stripped down and forward driving groove. Its crescendo is paced and systematic, a celebration of experimental techno.
On the flip side, the due brings in a small dose of their industrial heritage. Initially, “Levity” is a more brutal affair, with it’s groove formed by an unforgiving bass drum and a rolling mechanical refrain. What grows around it is unexpected thou’: with a melody of analog synths that brings back memories of the best Detroit and layers of gelid soundscapes, the drum programming shifts to the background and the track transforms into another hypnotic and brainy experiment.
It’s a similar deal with ‘Learned’, although things are a little bit more martial and aggressive here. While the atmosphere is still crepuscular and sidereal, the drum programming maintains center stage with an old school stomping loop and an ‘in your face’ bass drum.
Max_M continues to cherish relationships with dedicated techno veterans and this Forward Strategy Group release is just another chapter in the label’s celebration of underground techno.

M_Rec Ltd 21 - Forward Strategy Group - Levity

Max_M / Fabrizio Lapiana - 1002
A: Max_M - 1002A
B: Fabrizio Lapiana - 1002B

(M_RECLTD1002 - 10")

Release Date: 29 July 2014

OVERVIEW:
Time for the second black label M_Rec Ltd 10”, a series of no-frills vinyl records used by Max_M to deliver dancefloor oriented tracks to djs and techno fans around the world.

On one side, Max_M delivers an irresistible joint that thanks to layers and layers of elements manages to surprise beginning to end. That high pitch bell sound, which is somehow becoming a trademark in Max_M’s productions, splits in multiple directions generating soulful melodies and grooves. A perfect track for peak time.

Fabrizio Lapiana’s cut is an introspective journey rich in modular-fueled melodies. Its mellow refrains pay tribute to ambient classics and trippy British electronica, while the drum programming sets the track into a techno context, groovy and forward driving. 

M_RECLTD1002 - Max_M / Fabrizio Lapiana

Studio 14´s first vinyl release is a killer four track EP. Label founder David Att gives us his vision  for the future Studio 14 releases.
Intensity, warmth , hypnotism, depth, are some of the adjectives that you can find in this Ep and also in the future of Studio 14
David Att  belongs to this new generation of producer to keep an eye on. Music with no compromises.

Written & Produced by David Att
Format Vinyl & Digital
Ref ST14.000
Promoted by K1971
Distributed by Triple Vision through Envelope Structure.
Release Date 22/09/2014

[ST14.000] // Egoist Ep // David Att .Preview

Ricardo Donoso - A Song For Echo - 03 A Song For Echo Part III

'Quintesence' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den250
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/ricardodonoso]

Denovali is pleased to present the QUINTESENCE soundtrack composed & produced by Ricardo Donoso in May 2015. QUINTESENCE was created by installation artist Florence To (UK) and composer Ricardo Donoso (BRA) after a series of conversations and collaborations in 2014. They shared a mutual interest in the psychological research in their work and wanted to further develop this as a thematic process in a live audio visual performance. QUINTESENCE was commissioned & premiered at the Satosphere dome, Society for Arts and Technology in Montreal in May 2015. The dome, 18 meters in diameter and 11.5 to 13m high, forms a 360-degree spherical projection and is made up of 157 speakers in clusters of four around the perimeter of the dome, giving a surround sound of 39.4 channels. QUINTESENCE examines a system of elements that represent the development of the psychic process; symbols represent parts of the subconscious, telling a story of how memory may be disorientated, distorted, and dysfunctional yet acting as a linear process to individuation.

Through Ricardo Donoso’s score we see trace elements of these processes and symbols within the sounds themselves – within each musical decision. Donoso’s score continues to advance his foray into electro-acoustic hybrids, explicitly here with the use of Spectralism. Washes of lush string trio including contrabass, cello and viola are dismembered and placed through the wringer of Donoso’s custom signal processing chains. QUINTESENCE also emphasizes Donoso’s skills as a sound designer, where alien textures, Xenakian computer music and massive tone clusters collide and shatter against each other for moments of either breathtaking beauty or stretches of repulsiveness. Serene piano and vocal elements are pinned against oppressive drones and digital clatter, each voice fighting for its space in the vacuum of the dome.

Although an entirely high level digital production, the duality of QUINTESENCE that is played out is that the subject matter is really about the natural world and our relationship to it. It is about existing on a plane void of technology while discovering your identity within the context of a purely natural world, uninterrupted by contemporary hurdles. 

Quintesence

Ricardo Donoso - Metaphase

Podcast #013 : Ricardo Donoso.

Ricardo Donoso is a composer, percussionist and electronic musician from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil who currently resides in Boston. After having studied composition at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory he has participated in a slew of projects over the years, from holding down the drum chair in new music/avant-metal visionaries Ehnahre to scoring for recent documentary features such as Greg Barker’s “Homegrown: The Counter Terror Dilemma” (HBO pictures 2016) and the Grand Prize short film winner in Brazilian cinema “Casimiro Effect”. Donoso has since collaborated with film makers & video artists on commissions worldwide creating immersive environments & performances.
As a solo recording artist, Donoso has released music on esteemed labels such as Denovali, Digitalis, Further Records and Hospital Productions, and continues to tour throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. He is most concerned with building and manipulating an immersive sound world that blurs the line between light and dark, hope and despair, past and future. Under a chain of progressive rhythms, cinematic textures and elegant melodicism, Donoso’s work pushes through with piercing strength, manipulating a sonic wave through space with nothing but pulse and mind blowing intensity.

INVEINS \ Podcast 013 \ Ricardo Donoso

Taken from 'Corvus' EP by Recondite, out November 11, 2016.

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Corvus

Recondite - Capable (Ricardo Donoso Clemency Version)

from 'Human Resources' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den303
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/ricardodonoso]

Human Resources

RDTK (Ricardo Donoso & Thiago Kochenborger) - Shadows Arrive

from 'Calibrate' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den311
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/ricardodonoso

“Quicksilver frequencies, gravelly formants and shimmering, mirage-like washes of tone. Sometimes his sounds feel like signals picked up by a radio telescope, or pure electricity poured through a sieve” Pitchfork

“He displays a resistance towards the boundaries of genre, taking experimental, techno and noise templates and blending them with different range of sounds, delivering some of the most wonderfully eccentric and evocative music in recent memory” Dummy  

“Transcendently dark permutations” The Ransom Note

“A genre-defying electronic explorer” Exclaim

On November 30th Denovali records presents ‘Calibrate’ – the new album by respected underground figure, composer and producer Ricardo Donoso. As has now come to be expected from the questing musician, once again he has endeavoured to do things differently, pushing beyond any comfort-zone parameters. 

‘Calibrate’ proffers the highest of fidelity, with blockbuster sci fi levels of production value and bombast. Donoso channels sonic spirits across fluro pointillism, futuristic industrial tribalism and more serene moments of synthetic reflection.

Having never courted accessibility, Donoso remains as unbending as ever in his approach and unwavering in commitment to his craft. Calibrate takes Donoso’s polymetric abuse and sound design to all new extremes. Conflicting rhythms and swathes of electronic debris move in tandem, to create pieces that expand and contract in on themselves.

A journey through Calibrate is an exercise in instability and failure; its aggressiveness serves as a warning against the urge to seek safety on common ground, and its entire approach seems to display a hostility towards the increasingly homogenized nature of new electronic music. 

The first in a two-part series, ‘Calibrate’ seeks to explore not only the literal connotations of instrument accuracy, gauging and tuning, as represented by the constant flux of machinery and computer noise, but also explores calibration as an adjustment; to take external factors into account, or to allow comparison with other data. With ‘Calibrate’ Donoso continues to question what music is, and what it expects of him. 
Ricardo Donoso is a composer, percussionist and electronic musician from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil who currently resides in Boston. After having studied composition at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory, he has participated in a slew of projects over the years, from holding down the drum chair in avant-metal visionaries Ehnahre, to scoring for recent documentary features such as Greg Barker’s ‘Homegrown: The Counter Terror Dilemma’ (HBO pictures 2016) and the Grand Prize short film winner in Brazilian cinema ‘Casimiro Effect’. Donoso has since collaborated with film makers and video artists on commissions worldwide, creating immersive environments and performances. 
As a solo recording artist, Donoso has released music on esteemed labels such as Denovali, Digitalis, Further Records and Hospital Productions, and continues to tour throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. He is most concerned with building and manipulating an immersive sound world that blurs the line between light and dark, hope and despair, past and future. Under a chain of progressive rhythms, cinematic textures and elegant melodicism, Donoso’s work pushes through with piercing strength, manipulating a sonic wave through space with nothing but mind-blowing intensity.

Calibrate

Ricardo Donoso - Inimical

READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-ricardo-donoso-in-search-for-lost-time

'Calibrate' is @ricardodonoso third album for @denovali and finds the producer in characteristically diverse and ferocious form, mangling experimental noise and pounding distorted techno into a sound that will undoubtedly cause havoc live.

Ricardo Donoso - In Search of Lost Time [Denovali]

Ricardo Donoso - A Vigorous Unfolding

from 'Re_Calibrate' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den318
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/ricardodonoso

‘Re_Calibrate’, the companion piece to Donoso’s 2018 acclaimed album ‘Calibrate’ continues to obfuscate any clear definition of genre or style and continues to push his music into stranger, more complex and extreme territories. Equal parts tender and twisted, cynical and honest, beautiful and obnoxious, ‘Re_Calibrate’ shines through as a major point in the composer’s discography – and provides a glimpse into the new directions being taken. ‘Re_Calibrate’ is a challenging listen; void of any trendy tropes or appeal for consumers of watered down, homogenized and dogmatic electronic music.
A truly honest and original work in an ocean of clones.

Re_Calibrate

Ricardo Donoso - Forced Perspective

from 'Content' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den334
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/ricardodonoso

Terry Waite was taken hostage in Beirut in the late 1980s, before ISIS, before smartphones, before the Internet as we know it. He endured a mock execution during the first year of his five-year captivity, which was spent mostly in solitary confinement. Years later, during a Q&A session, he was asked to identify the main thing he had learned from his ordeal. The answer, came as a shock—it was not the excruciatingly hard-won appreciation for life and loved ones that one expects to hear. “Contemporary humanity,” declared Waite, “has lost the ability to engage in productive solitude.”

"Content" is the 9th album of the US based producer Ricardo Donoso.

Content

Ricardo Donoso - A Consensual Hallucination

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Ricardo Donoso - A Song For Echo - 03 A Song For Echo Part III

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