Lifting Gear Engineer
Recovery

bleeps / leftfield / beats / idm / electronica / electronic

'Recovery' is Swansea-based Rob Morgan's eighth album under his Lifting Gear Engineer moniker. Rob explains that “Making music is almost a compulsion. I've always got an idea of the music I want to make in my head, so I'm motivated to make that a reality. I enjoy the process of music- making, realising it in the form of a finished track, and also live performance as a form of expression.”

This new album, he adds, follows “a general theme of recovery, recuperation, the process of
healing that everyone goes through in one form or another.”

An eighth album makes you realise it's been a minute since Rob debuted as Lifting Gear Engineer, on a 2003 compilation released by Boobytrap Records. Machine Records first released music by Rob the following year: an epic track called 'Cables Pt 2' that was picked up by DJ Adam Walton on his weekly Welsh music show. Following that, in 2005, Machine released Rob's first full album as LGE, 'Brain Holiday'.

An early reviewer dubbed Rob's music "bleeps n beats" and that still works for us, although with key early influences like Aphex Twin, Leftfield, and Orbital, "leftfield electronica" also does the job.

Many unique singles, EPs, and albums have followed over the last two decades and it's great to be able to share the latest chapter. Rob's most recent album release on Machine was 'Space Between' back in 2018 (re-issued in 2022) and his last self-released album, 'Promised Future', was in March 2022.