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Magical Cuts: Anthony ‘Surgeon’ Child’s Favourite Music
Luke Turner , March 30th, 2023 07:45

With the new Surgeon album one of the highlights of 2023 so far, Anthony Child guides Luke Turner through a psychedelic journey that takes in The Cure, King Tubby, Sylvester and Alice Coltrane, and John Taverner’s quest for the sonic divine

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Ivor Cutler – Dandruff

Someone at my school played it and I was like, ‘what on earth is this?’ There’s a level where it's absurd and a bit twee and quite comically light, but it's also dark and really odd. It’s another of these pieces of art that creates such a powerful, unique universe. He creates this Ivor Cutler universe where there's something called gruts that you eat or whatever, and it's so bizarre but he makes you believe it. I love playing bits of his pieces in DJ sets, as little intros and stuff like that. A lot of the time if I play something like that, there's basically no reaction, maybe it's too odd and it just goes through people.