Review: In 1997, fresh from the success of his brilliant debut album Communications, Anthony Child took his Surgeon project to Tresor. It was the beginning of a productive partnership between the Midlands techno titan and the similarly weighty German imprint. Tresor 97-99 gathers together Child's three albums for the Berlin-based label, offering them in freshly re-mastered form. Disc one boasts the frenzied intensity and intergalactic freakiness of 1997's Basictonalvocabulary, while disc two hosts the jazzier loops, funkier samples and weirder ambient interludes of 98's Balance. As for disc three, that's 99's Force + Form, one of Child's most inspired outings. It consists of four long crackly, hypnotic, full-throttle workouts, including the uplifting, samba-tinged brilliance of "All The Heart of it All".
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