“What is techno to you?” This is a question frequently asked of Midlands-born techno producer Anthony Child. One that, by his own admission, he frequently fails to answer with words. Like any genre, techno is many things to many people: a soundtrack to hedonistic good times, a boundary-pushing platform for modernist experimentation, a lifelong obsession. On this, his latest Surgeon album for the celebrated, Berlin-based Tresor label, Child presents the listener with a definitive sonic response. It’s one that may feel familiar to fans of his hard, unfussy, crisp-but-rugged production style but this vision of techno is deceptively idiosyncratic and contains within it a number of important clues to uncovering Child’s true relationship to the music that’s been his…

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