This is how it happened:

.the woody wood sound. (yes there are actually periods before and after) is a sonic think tank.

The commencement of .the wood' was back in 1999 when A.b. was commissioned by Parallax Audio to produce some Hip Hop tracks for a group known as Royal Family.

The sources that A.b. got his sounds to sample from ( only had an MPC2000 and no other noise making instruments so had to sample) were some that ranged into the electronic and chilled-groove genres...

This intrigued the ear of young A...and he was already an avid listener of Reggae and danceall music, as well as music from Parliament and his all-time favorite musician-BOOTSY COLLINS...

A. couldnt fight the magnetism to this new sounding music that seemd to match his E.L.F. mappings. With the scientifically and inventive sounds and street-wise drums of just seemingly progressive and innovative instrumentation, the dynamics and endless possibilites of musical manifestation and direction were too much for him to ignore...

and so, purchasing a keyboard and receiving one as a gift from his girlfriend, and accumulating various other instruments along the way: trumpet, bongos, maracas, acoustic guitar, ad later on an electric guitar, and also he long lost alto saxophone he used to play since 5th grade..he began his quest into "progressive music" based in the urban perspective and gutter-type parallax...

furthermore when discovering computer technology and even learning that it could be applied to the music making process to EXPONENTIALLY increase your abilities (as far as sound manipulation and editing/mixing are concerned), it was "really on"...

A.b. was ALSO soon to discover that along with his new music imagination direction running wild, he would come across ideas and conceps that would definitely require the assistance and guidance of REAL MUSICIANS that knew how to play things he diddnt know how to play or play well, such as:EVERYTHING except drum-type stuff and sax...

He would have the pleasure of hooking up with someone who would become his mentor on the keyboards- Cle Jones. Those two worked on many tunes together...and in 2000, A would meet two people that would forever change his musical focus- Rob CLark Jr, and Landon Reidy who made up the core of the band LRC. LRC was an electronic rock outfit from Steubenville, Ohio, just a half hour away from Youngstown.

As A puts it: "...I was chillin wit my girl in 2000 summer, surfing mp3.com for artists around my region when I came to the Stubenville page I came to LRC...and the first song was "Slow Motion Life", but it was ANYTHING but a slow motion song, it had mad energy and by listening to that song I immediately knew that these was some serious visionaries, and the song only got 2-lines!! IT's "...oh GOD those beautiful eyes, in a slow motion life.." the instrumentation was ill it had the perfect blend and layering of guitar and the synths...and not to mention a wicked lead solo, which is something that comes second to ill filtered synth in my favorite of sound...man that cut, I peeped the rest of em that was on the net...and we met up and discussed music and life and stuff, and it was like we knew eachother all along.. my girl made them dinner and all that.

We did a few cuts and the most memorable is "Children's Dub" with another venerable musician named James Suggs. A wicked trumpet player...so nice on the horn that every summer from '00 ta like '03 his salsa band be featured on a cruise line, he would come in and do things in one take without ever previously hearing the track...but by teaming up and building with LRC, he was to find confirmation that the simple and playful lyrics and melodies he had bouncing and flippin' around in his head were actually something that would sound good if put to a fitting tune...they opened my eyes to a path to a chakra I hadn't even known I was looking for...something about brain wave frequency and our response maps is what makes humans appreciate or make them aware that they like something or whatever it is that is being interpreted on one of their senses...and their music was something I felt.. and it was like a how a comet or asteroid passing a planet will have its trajectory altered by the gravitational pull in addition to its own pre-existing velocity, and it goes into another path..in this case we talking musically...which I guess is cosmic."

However, still attached fondly to hip hop and rapping, he new he also had a vision with that as well, especially being alongside fellow micsmiths Dro and Streets, but A.b. would soon loose his fervor for the mic, as his naturally introverted personality began to take more and more control of him. No longer could he continue to engage in the life-style of "flyness" and "showmanship"...not at all exclusively materialistic and machismotic showmanship, but just commanding an audience to be subject to however many minute to his direct and constant verbiage was too much on the fringes of vanity for him...

he even began to relax his flow, and influctuations into his natural speaking voice in efforts to sound more humble and personable, but the sheer fact that he was talking, coupled with a TV appearance that he said just "put him out there" (not the show and its producers, but just BEING on the TV was too uncomfortable for him). That just ultimately did him in as far as making music as a rapper is concerned.

So, after trying to chill out also from a very hectic year of 3 family members being murdered in 6 months, a double-dosage of legal run-ins, and expensive court battles...he spent months watching/listening to Time Warner Cable's "SOUNDS OF THE SEASON" channel (down tempo chill music) where he re-discovered the non-demanding world of "the other" music...it was back to searching thru multiple hard drives and DVDs of cataloged sound prints and sample bases..."naked" drum patterns that he or others had made and saved for a rainy day such as this...

he rebooted the old virtual synth programs that had long been dormant, and hooked up his MIDI apparati and began to see if he still had the "funky fangas"...and to his chagrin, he found that he did.

Since then ( meaning from the first time A.b. started messing with music as "the woody wood sound." , he has made or co-made over 250 songs ranging in genres from Trance, Trip Hop, Hip-Hop, Illbient, Deep House, Acid Jazz, Rock, and Reggae...however with a twist and signature that he referrs to as: "Electronic Funk"

�.the woody wood sound�. refers to itself as a �sonic think tank� because it will lay a drum or bass groove down, only to subject sonic samples to a great extent of effects processing and manipulation. It is sufficient to say that a great deal of cognition goes into the production of .the woody wood sound., and there is a visionary approach that is taken towards making music and sound designs.

most of the songs on this site are way old, the latest work is from 2003...so there was a lot of mixing flaws, and even further, there were songs that have drums from 2000 and 2001, that were just layered with more instruments years later...I was really not in the KNOW as to how to keep levels under control and what didn't blend with what...but they still some enjoyable tracks though.

newer stuff is in the works.