English electronic musician and DJ
Surgeon
Get to know the artist
Surgeon is the name Anthony Child uses as an English techno DJ and producer. He runs the labels Counterbalance and Dynamic Tension, and his music has also come out on Tresor, Soma and Harthouse. He is one half of British Murder Boys with Regis, helped pioneer House of God, a Birmingham party, and spent three years as a resident at Tresor in Berlin.
- Background
He adopted laptop DJ tools such as Ableton Live and Final Scratch early, and he also performs improvised live sets, including as Multiples with Speedy J.
- Born in
- Kislingbury
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active since
- 1991
- First RA show
- 1999 · Flanders Expo Centre, Ghent
- On RA
- 970 shows in 41 countries
- Released on
- Tresor, Dynamic Tension, Token, Ilian Tape, Blueprint Records, Downwards
- RA followers
- 17,744
- Plays
- Techno
Their label
SRX
Founder · Source: MusicBrainz
Hear a full mix
- RA.144 Surgeon ↗
Resident Advisor podcast · Mar 2009
In our cities
- 103 shows · last Jun 2026 at FOLD
- 94 shows · last Jul 2026 at Amsterdamse Bos
- 69 shows · last Sep 2026 at Else
- 11 shows · last May 2017 at Unit
- 5 shows · last Jul 2026 at Signal
- 2 shows · last Oct 2023 at Brown Alley
- 2 shows · last May 2015 at kyō
- 2 shows · last Oct 2023 at Cockatoo Island
Upcoming across cities
Often on the same bill as
- DJ Pete
12 shared bills · last Sep 2026
- Regis
8 shared bills · last May 2026
- re:ni
6 shared bills · last Sep 2026
- Dan Bean
6 shared bills · last May 2026
- Speedy J
6 shared bills · last Oct 2025
- British Murder Boys
4 shared bills · last May 2026
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