Surgeon (musician)

Infobox musical artist
Name = Surgeon

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Img_capt = Surgeon DJing at Womb, Tokyo, 2006.
Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name =
Alias = Anthony Child
Born = Birth date and age|1971|5|1|mf=y
Origin = Newport Pagnell, England, UK
Instrument = Electronics Macintosh computers JazzMutant Lemur
Genre = Electronic music Techno
Occupation = Musician DJ Remixer
Years_active = 1991 – present
Label = Counterbalance Dynamic Tension Downwards Tresor
Associated_acts = British Murder Boys Frequency 7
URL = [http://www.dj-surgeon.com Official website]

Surgeon is the pseudonym of Anthony Child, an English electronic musician and DJ. Child releases music on his own labels Counterbalance and Dynamic Tension. Established imprints, such as Tresor, Soma, and Harthouse, have also released Surgeon's original material and remixes. He has also been recognized as one of the first wave of DJs to use Ableton Live and Final Scratch to supplement his DJ sets.

History

Child grew up in Kislingbury, a village in Northamptonshire. In 1989, he moved to Birmingham to study audio-visual design, played in a jazz/rock/fusion band called Blim, and learned to DJ from friend Paul Damage.cite book | last = Barr | first = Tim | title = The Rough Guide to Techno | publisher = Rough Guides | date = 2000 | location = London | pages = 328-329 | isbn = 1-85828-434-1] At that time, there were no Techno clubs in Birmingham so he and his friends started House of God,cite book | last = Heugli | first = Walter | coauthors = Martin Jaeggi, Arsène Saheurs | title = Raw Music Material: Electronic Music DJs Today | publisher = Scalo | date = 2002 | location = Zurich | pages = p. 71 | isbn = 3-908247-51-9] and by 1991 he was DJing there regularly. In 1994, he released his eponymous debut EP on Downwards Records.

Surgeon's musical style is characterised by his incorporation of the more cinematic and leftfield aspects of his musical background into his club-based material. His production, remix, and DJ repertoire are inspired by industrial music bands such as Faust, Coil, and Whitehouse. In particular, the extent of Coil's influence is such that most of the track titles from Surgeon's Tresor album "Force and Form" are direct references to Coil recordings. [ [http://brainwashed.com/coil/discog.html] http://brainwashed.com/coil/discog.html, retrieved 8 September 2007.] Child also draws influence from Chicago house, Techno, Dub music, and Electro, and also from non-musical works by Mike Leigh, David Lynch, William S. Burroughs, Bret Easton Ellis, and Cindy Sherman.cite book | last = Heugli | first = Walter | coauthors = Martin Jaeggi, Arsène Saheurs | title = Raw Music Material: Electronic Music DJs Today | publisher = Scalo | date = 2002 | location = Zurich | pages = p. 71 | isbn = 3-908247-51-9]

Child is also known for several significant artist collaborations in his career. These include tonal experiments with Mick Harris, British Murder Boys with Regis, and most recently with Ben Sims as Frequency 7.

elected Discography

Albums

* 1996: "Communications"
* 1997: "Basictonalvocabulary"
* 1998: "Balance"
* 1999: "Force and Form"
* 2000: "Body Request"

Dynamic Tension EPs

* 1997: "Patience"
* 1997: "Learning"
* 1998: "Sound Pressure" ("with James Ruskin")
* 1998: "Credence"
* 1999: "East Light"
* 1999: "Dry"
* 2005: "Klonk"
* 2007: "Whose Bad Hands Are These?" ("with remixes from DisinVectant and Autechre")
* 2007: "Whose Bad Hands Are These?" ("with remixes from Monolake and Vex'd")

Counterbalance EPs

* 1999: "Diametric"
* 2000: "La Real"
* 2000: "Waiting For Me"
* 2000: "Midnight Club Tracks Part I"
* 2001: "Midnight Club Tracks Part II"
* 2001: "Screw The Roses"
* 2006: "Floorshow Part I"
* 2006: "Floorshow Part II"

Collaborations

* 1998: "Certain Beyond All Reasonable Doubt" ("with Mick Harris")
* 2002: "Guitar Treatments" ("with Andrew Read")

As British Murder Boys

* 2001: "British Murder Boys"
* 2003: "Learn Your Lesson"
* 2003: "Don't Give Way To Fear"
* 2004: "Fist/Splinter"
* 2005: "Father Loves Us"
* 2005: "All The Saints Have Been Hung"

Compilations

* 2001: "Counterbalance Collection"
* 2007: "This Is For You Shits" ("limited-edition mix CD on Warpmart & Bleep")

elected Remixes

* 1996: "The Storm" by Dave Clarke
* 1996: "The House Of God" by D.H.S.
* 1996: "It One Jah" by The Advent
* 1998: "Fear Satan" by Mogwai
* 1999: "Nurture" by LFO ("For ")
* 2001: "California Rhinoplasty" by Matmos
* 2001: "Teenage Lightning" by Coil ("unreleased") [Tracklisting from BBC Radio 1's Mary Anne Hobbs, 2005. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/tracklistingarchive.shtml?20050329] ]
* 2006: "The Clock" by Thom Yorke [cite news | first=Eliot | last= Van Buskirk | title=New Thom Yorke Remix MP3s | date=2006-12-11 | publisher=wired.com | url =http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/12/new_thom_yorke_.html/ | pages = | accessdate = 2007-09-08 | language = ]
* 2006: "Alaska" by Monolake

References

External links

* [http://www.dj-surgeon.com Surgeon Official website]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Surgeon Extensive Surgeon discography] @ Discogs.com
* [http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=surgeon&L=0&ftu=54d850c1afc520d&flash=0 Interview on Native Instruments website]
* [http://www.spannered.org/music/798/ Interview on spannered.org]
* [http://www.ump3.de/sites/talk_surgeon.php Interview on UMP3.de]