Surgeon

[version]

Sandwell District stuff and the stuff they play is alright, there's a lot I haven't heard on Downwards, but then there's tracks like this... been overplayed by me 'recently'. Quite mellow tracks thinking about it.

 

[DLaurent]

Love this from Regis.

 

[pattycakes_]

DJ X used to play Drum and Bass in the third room if I remember right. The second room was wicked though, kind of a 'chill out' room but eclectic. I also liked the cafe type area upstairs where you could sit and just hear the thud from the techno in the main room. I only remember not getting in there once because the bouncer said 'I was wasted already' so I jumped in a taxi to my mates house.

I think ever since it's moved you'd struggle to recreate anything like it was at Subway. I think they turned it into a goth club for a while.

Which reminds me of getting girlfriend from Brighton. She wanted to go somewhere in Brum and knew of a pop club on Broad Steet similar to where she was from. I said lets go to Digbeth but it had been years since I'd been there and it turns out all the clubs like The Custard Factory and The Sanctuary are closed now. I called a mate and he said go to a place called Subside. We walked in and it was full of goths and her face just dropped. It was more gothy than a pub I used to go to as a kid called The Flapper. We had one pint in there and then went to the nice pop club she wanted to go to. I wouldn't know where to go in Brum these days as I don't think much of the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath.

Custard Factory was the shit. Saw Aphex play in the emptied out pool/pond thing one time.

 

[woops]

only good thing ever to come out of the existence of this absolutely shit band

 

[chava]

These Regis tracks are cool I guess, but those industrial breakbeats feel like sludge to me. Too constructed, composed. Nah, this is the Regis you want; excessively monotonous and as strange and inhuman as those black monoliths in 2001:

 

[chava]

Another one which made me forget to ask a girls number back in the day, twisted my head inside out, proper frankfurt/munich brutalism. Berlin can suck it. Hearing this over a big rig is life changing. fuck communalism in clubs I want the demons to possess me. I don't even like clubs. They are shit. I just love big phat fuck off rigs. I want to make love to them every day.

Such a wild track and as you say definetely a "speaker huggin" anthem.

Produced by Richard Bartz/Acid Scout, way underrated producer.

 

[woops]

i like all these techno tracks now, especially the "throwback". in 95 i would definitely have turned my nose up. indie kid

 

[luka]

monotonous and as strange and inhuman as black monoliths.

i like all these techno now

procure me and woops the Ultimate Black Monolith Mix. we need it now. get to work!

 

[chava]

procure me and woops the Ultimate Black Monolith Mix. we need it now. get to work!

Too soft-hearted these days to do a whole mix of these. I prefer to peek into the void in small doses, here's one of the better displays:

 

[luka]

i dont need you to make the mix just post one someone else has made the ultimate monolith

 

[woops]

surely there's a label out there called most monolithic ever monolith