Established imprints, such as Tresor, Soma, and Harthouse, have also released Surgeon's original material and remixes.

In 1989, he moved to Birmingham to study audio-visual design, where he played in a jazz/rock/fusion band called Blim, and learned to DJ from friend Paul Damage.

His production, remix, and DJ repertoire are inspired by krautrock and industrial music bands such as Faust, Coil, and Whitehouse.

[5] Child also is influenced by 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.

These include tonal experiments with Mick Harris, British Murder Boys with Regis, and with Ben Sims as Frequency 7.