Basic Tonal Vocabulary

Surgeon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 14, 1997)
• Original Release Date: October 14, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Efa Imports
• ASIN: B000003SY5
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #707,570 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. (Intro)

2. First

3. Krautrock

4. Movement

5. 9 Hours into the Future

6. Depart

7. Rotunda

8. Waiting

9. Scorn

10. Return

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars don't dismiss the RAF - britain finally did something good, October 28, 1999

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Xiao (usa) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Basic Tonal Vocabulary (Audio CD)

taking sound into new levels, surgeon is still a bit green here (he's capable of a lot in my opinion)- but its a great album, more for the people (traditional dance floor) than some of his lastest. still something new - different than other hard stuff around like mills and all the detroit boys. surgeon proves he can take on the luftewaffe

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, February 24, 2005

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Roberto Succo (Europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Basic Tonal Vocabulary (Audio CD)

Beautiful, brain-rattling techno, with some tracks blaring off into steel-drum echo-chains of low-tech effects, boxes of reverb, all with the central beat crashing, waves of bass and accident, again and again, over and over, the central black eclipse of the punctuated beat stomping forward into the next track. And the next. And then the melody, or what passes for one, mixing in, louder, louder, a curtain of old electronica, the sound of the 90s, buzzing and flaring and the beat drops out and you're left in headphone space. A really great record. Crisp and fuzzy at the same time, good for mixing, dancing, typing, standing there drinking wine at midnight, good for driving. Good for thinking, the loops and subprocesses, the filigree and space. Again and again, and the beat never stops. The universe is all continuation. Everything sounds like everything else. The beat is continuous. The tracks begin again...

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but a little obtuse, December 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Basic Tonal Vocabulary (Audio CD)

This is good solid techno, but its like the man said..."Techno's not going anywhere. It's a feeling..." Still, very well-produced and will make your brain do funny things in the dark