« My music is not just techno, it is inside an infinite world » – Liberation

It has been 30 years since Anthony Child forced us to ask the question. Techno or not techno? Techno of course from the first measure of almost any song among the hundreds that the Briton has released under the name of Surgeon since 1992 – dozens of Maxis on Downwards, BluePrint, Tresor or his own Counterbalage and Dynamic Tension Labels, and ten albums, a good half of which became monuments of brutal, dissonant and abstructive techno including the city of Birmingham has become an epicenter thanks to his music and that of his brother of Rhythms Karl O’Connor, alias Regis.

But also, not techno, or rather, not really, or, so much more. Precise memory of Force + Form In 1999, stack of endless industrial hammering disturbed of almost absurd atmospheres and grains with strange consistency everywhere in the gears; or The Crawling Frog is Torn and Smilesrarity lost on a vinyl side in 2010 developing around a single note from its electronics in its simplest synthetic device, bone cardioscope, the most ingenious mechanical funk of creation; still in 2025, on the terrible Soul Firenew resistance part of the new Shell ~ Wavean overly pressed big cake, two unstable notes that set fire to a Delay that takes the lead until it knocked out.

Techno is there, oh how much, but also its reverse, that is all the rest of music, psychedeliq rock