Surgeon (musician)
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| Surgeon | |
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 Surgeon DJing at Womb, Tokyo, 2006.
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Anthony Child |
| Born | May 1, 1971 |
| Origin | Newport Pagnell, England, UK |
| Genre(s) | Electronic music Techno |
| Occupation(s) | Musician DJ Remixer |
| Instrument(s) | Electronics Macintosh computers JazzMutant Lemur |
| Years active | 1991 – present |
| Label(s) | Counterbalance Dynamic Tension Downwards Tresor |
| Associated acts | British Murder Boys Frequency 7 |
| Website | 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.
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[edit] 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.[1] At that time, there were no Techno clubs in Birmingham so he and his friends started House of God,[2] 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 incorporatio 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.[3] 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.[2]
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.
[edit] Selected Discography
[edit] Albums
- 1996: "Communications"
- 1997: "Basictonalvocabulary"
- 1998: "Balance"
- 1999: "Force and Form"
- 2000: "Body Request"
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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"
[edit] Collaborations
- 1998: "Certain Beyond All Reasonable Doubt" (with Mick Harris)
- 2002: "Guitar Treatments" (with Andrew Read)
[edit] 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"
[edit] Compilations
- 2001: "Counterbalance Collection"
- 2007: "This Is For You Shits" (limited-edition mix CD on Warpmart & Bleep)
[edit] Selected 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 Warp 10+3 compilation)
- 2001: "California Rhinoplasty" by Matmos
- 2001: "Teenage Lightning" by Coil (unreleased) [4]
- 2006: "The Clock" by Thom Yorke [5]
- 2006: "Alaska" by Monolake
[edit] References
- ^ Barr, Tim (2000). The Rough Guide to Techno. London: Rough Guides, 328-329. ISBN 1-85828-434-1.
- ^ a b Heugli, Walter; Martin Jaeggi, Arsène Saheurs (2002). Raw Music Material: Electronic Music DJs Today. Zurich: Scalo, p. 71. ISBN 3-908247-51-9.
- ^ [1]http://brainwashed.com/coil/discog.html, retrieved 8 September 2007.
- ^ Tracklisting from BBC Radio 1's Mary Anne Hobbs, 2005. [2]
- ^ Van Buskirk, Eliot. "New Thom Yorke Remix MP3s", wired.com, 2006-12-11. Retrieved on 2007-09-08.
