- He began his music career as the vocalist for the band Seven Hertz.
- Ellis was a runner at Battery Studios in London and held apprenticeships at Marcus Studios and Trident Studios.
- He began his professional studio career as a runner at Morgan Studios in London, where he also served as Tape Operator on 1984 by Rick Wakeman.
- As a child, Ellis attended St Olave's Grammar School in Orpington, England.
- Following his work with Some Bizzare Records, Flood began working with Mute Records as their preferred producer, heralding his first production project with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on From Her to Eternity (1983-1984) and the follow-up album, The Firstborn Is Dead (1984).
- Flood had a studio in Kilburn called The Bedroom.
- In 2010, he produced Belong by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Let England Shake by PJ Harvey.
- Flood's first mainstream commercial break came in 1987 when he engineered U2's The Joshua Tree alongside producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois.
- His work at Mute was as producer, co-producer or engineer with each of the label's major acts, including Depeche Mode, Vince Clarke and Erasure, whose debut album Wonderland (1986) and its followup The Circus (1987) he engineered.
- In 2004 he produced Soulwax's album Any Minute Now and in mid-2005 he mixed a-ha's eighth album, Analogue, and produced Yourcodenameis:Milo's debut album Ignoto.
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