He released music as part of Warp Records' Artificial Intelligence series in the 1990s, including his debut LP Ginger (1993).

[1] Moving to label NovaMute, his work, which included Public Energy No.1 (1997)[1] and A Shocking Hobby (2000), became more experimental.

[2] In his dance music course on Masterclass, Armin Van Buuren cited Speedy J's Ginger album as being one of his major early influences.

"Upon first impressions, Public Energy No.1 highlights a big departure from previous Speedy J offerings... in a complete role reversal, it enters upon an iconoclastic electro territory more familiar to admirers of such other purveyors as Autechre, the Aphex Twin, Mike Paradinas and Martin Damm in his Steel persona," wrote Andrez Bergen in 1998 for Australian magazine Inpress.

[3] Collabs is the name of a series of 12" vinyl EPs wherein Speedy J collaborates with a selection of techno artists.