MMW: Surgeon

Sunday, February 16th, 2014 // Blogs,MMW

Surgeon is the pseudonym of Anthony Child, an English electronic musician and DJ. Surgeon’s musical style is characterized by his incorporation of the more cinematic and left field aspects of his musical background into his club-based material. His production, remix, and DJ repertoire are inspired by krautrock and industrial music bands such as Faust, Coil, and Whitehouse. 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.

As Resident Advisor put it in their review of Breaking the Frame: “Listening to [Surgeon’s] Breaking the Frame is not unlike going to an exhibit at which each of the displayed works occupies an entire wall. Each of these nine tracks is stark and enormous. Straight off, they announce themselves, and while each has a good amount of detail that you don’t even have to listen very closely to notice, what’s striking about them all is that those strong first impressions remain true the entire time each track plays.”

What makes Surgeon special is his blatant disregard for techno’s latest micro-trends and ability to incorporate a wide variety of sounds and textures into the dogmatic genre of techno. His music is sure to please old school techno heads and fans of leftfield sounds alike.