The new imprint for Stroboscopic Artefacts: Terzo Giorno – or Third Day – by Italian producer Donato Dozzy. It is an EP of great textural dexterity, traversing the moving and the misanthropic.
First track ‘Il Canto Della Maga’ presages the onset of Part II’s kick drum with mordant wind chimes, tinkling outside a house of pain and disturbance. The chimes reverberate around impressions of capacious depth – a distant factory whirring, lorries creeping in a tunnel – and that depth is incessantly, resolutely emphatic. And on that goes to ‘...Part II’, an immediate thrust into the deepest corners of techno. You can hear the sweat on the walls, the rumble in the speakers, the almost jubilant high-end synth rubbing against your skin. Vocals and/or metallic manipulation pour in half- way in. And then, as if summoned by the chimes outside the house, cease slowly. The third eponymous track is another made for the floor, and has a reasonably friendly upper line. Do not be fooled, however: a snarling squelch gives way to a scarily saccharine synth, incising with a jab two times a bar. A funkier beat slowly emerges from a distinctly off-beat one, bringing the piece to a natural, if not nice, conclusion. The final track, ‘Sotto Ma Sotto’, comes in like a train with an alarm going off. Its machine-like run, jumpy in tone and beat, is as delicate as its kick is deep. The alarm, meanwhile, fails to err: it is determined and charming, a call for heavenly climes and ecstatic moods. This is a wonderful track, built on insistence and executed with precision.
The chimes having run out of puff, this is a faultlessly incessant record. It is tempo up, both feet to the floor.

Donato Dozzy 'Terzo Giorno' [SA023]

Release date (vinyl & digital format): 25th of August 2014

Token followers can rejoice that now, 2014, Surgeon finally makes his official debut on the label. 'Fixed Action Pattern' comes as prequel to 'Aphelion', a forthcoming compilation of new and exclusive material. Aphelion will differ from last year’s Token Introspective mix CD by providing a collection of bespoke productions from Token regulars and like-minded artist who were commissioned by label owner Kr!z to bring their individual and complimenting sound to the Belgian imprint’s all-consuming 48th release.

Anthony Child has appeared on Token once before in 2008 remixing Grovskopa’s Sex & Violins, and while regularly supporting the label’s music in his DJ sets, it’s been a long awaited six years for UK techno’s most trusted producer to resurface on an imprint he’s helped inspire and influence. Surgeon’s two-track Fixed Action Pattern certifies Token’s credentials as a titan power in the world of no frills, industrially hardened techno, and this 46th release since the label took shape in 2007 follows this year’s Vaudeville LP by Inigo Kennedy, Orphx and Ancient Method’s relentless debut as Eschaton, Ctrls’ fifth EP for Token, more quality output as usual from Ø [Phase], and Christian Wünsch & Oscar Mulero’s second release for Kr!z as Spherical Coordinates.

Combining distorted drums similar to his earlier works on Dynamic Tension with a rusted synth progression Inigo Kennedy enthusiasts will inherently gravitate toward, “Fixed Action Pattern” is a bona-fide, rhythmically broken, Surgeon classic. For a second option Child provides a spatial dub version Lee “Scratch” Perry would produce had industrial techno been his thing, sequencing a loosened variant of drums disjointed by the injured swing of its tempo, cloaked in the lonesome moans of a distant fog horn, subtle feedback loops and splashes of space echo.

TRACKLIST
A. Fixed Action Pattern
B. Fixed Action Pattern (Dub)

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TOKEN46 - Surgeon - Fixed Action Pattern

A dark lonesome journey… deep and hard techno kicks, slow tempo - but no compromise.

Taking you back to a time when the scene was about expression and not narcissism.

You didn’t want people to know your whereabouts. All that mattered was the abandoned rave, your mates, and sometimes strangers. You came home at 7am, changed forever.

Now you find yourself in a world you don’t recognise, where we wave our phones side to side for social media. Well let this track take us back to when it really was a counter-culture.

a dark life (experimental)

Release Date :  October 30th , 2025
Artist :  Fape
Catalog Number : CALISTO139
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℗ 2025 Calisto Records
© 2025 Calisto Records

#melodictechno #techno

The Rising

Spoken

Fape - Spoken [Calisto Records]

Hard, deep, hypnotic Techno.

Vinyl only!

Cadency - Falling Ep (GKNSTR 008/15) clips

Jonas Kopp - In My Soul (Traut)

B2. 2000 and One - World Of Acid (Shinedoe RMX)

Remixed

Giant Robot (Mark Broom Remix)

This is my opening set from the "Transference" party with Alan Backdrop, Ness, Cinnamint and RoboKnob at Underground Gallery Studio (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Hope you enjoy the trip : )

Tracklist:

01. Voices From The Lake - Velo Di Maya
02. Fjader - Vegvisir
03. Kris Dubinsky - Dunkla Former
04. Polar Inertia - Black Sun
05. Yotam Avni - Tikkun
06. Monoloc - Phoenix
07. Droneghost - Kodo
08. Bearweasel - Button Down The Moose (Echologist Dub)
09. Alan Backdrop - Dp3
10. Hironori Takahashi - Venatrias (Echologist Dub)
11. Luke Hess - Unity
12. Jichael Mackson - Space
13. d_func. (aka Alexander Kowalski) - Patterns Of Confusion (Part 2)
14. James Ruskin, Regis, O-V-R - Post-Traumatic Son (DVS1 Pessimist Mix)
15. Benny Rodrigues - I Like Acid (Mike Dehnert Remix)
16. Clockwork (C-W) - Oblique
17. Post Scriptum - Gliese 581
18. Dadub - Existence (Kangding Ray Remix)
19. Per Hammar - Convoy
20. Per Hammar - Iffy
21. Pfirter - Atman
22. Jon Hester - Constellations
23. Irazu - Tolerance For The Absurd (Acronym Remix)
24. Stefan Vincent - Paranal Two
25. Mark Evemport - Kara
26. Orbe - Device's Generation
27. Punshukunshu - Satelar 26
28. Jinge - Kation
29. Synthek - Harmony

TOKEN46 - Surgeon - Fixed Action Pattern

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