It is the entire mantra behind my being. Music is perhaps not the most impactful method of effecting change in the world, but it has drastically changed the way I look at the world.

I used to DJ at parties in Denver and Boulder until that became too expensive to continue. Also, people kept asking about my numerous mixtapes..."Is this you?" This forced a conundrum into my thoughts on the subject- Yes, and no... Well, it's me spinning... but the songs were written by someone else." Confusion and disappointment almost always ensued. Situations like this (and girls who talked to me only because I was a DJ) pushed me into creating my own little musical world.

It's great for people who just want their music to be heard...but as far as people trying to make a buck...it must suck.

No... It takes me too long to produce my music, especially under pressure. I like it to manifest exactly like it sounds in my head...and though this really is a never-ending process, once in great while I will decide I like how a song sounds, and discontinue working on it.

1999 - Started on Mixman Studio Pro. Never actually finished a song.
2001 - Began using Acid Pro and Soung Forge also.
2003 - Computer kept crashing because of the complexity of the newer songs...got a new system and new software. Still never admitted that a single song was finished.
2004 - Lowered my standards a little in order to share my music with you.

First I must thank Seth, wherever he is. He started me down this path, for no apparent reason, by turning me on to Mixman Studio Pro.
Sometime around 2000 I was motivated to create music because I got fed up with the repetitive and dull nature of the electronica scene in CO. It seemed that people with the right equipment were just pumping out record after record of hastily produced carbon-copies in a set format. My elitism spurned me on a quest for the best of the best, while at the same time creating a burning desire to make music that was somehow "better." I was led to two things: maddening perfectionism and Squarepusher. My OCD-like necessity to mold music exactly to my ridiculous standards made me quickly outgrow software such as Mixman and AcidPro...even a computer(too slow). Squarepusher soon became my role model, at least from the perspective of production ability. I would imagine what his studio looked like, and scour the internet for every freeware tool that I could use to further my music. I can't say that I want my music to sound like his (because even if I wanted it to that's really not even possible), but I can say that there is no one who even comes close in the realm of intelligent dance music. mmmm, keywords.
IDM ELECTRONICA DOWNTEMPO EXPERIMENTAL 23 SKIDOO

There is a bridge on Colfax as it crosses the Platte on the way into downtown Denver. About halfway across, on the north side, is a hole in the guard-fence big enough to put your head through. If you do this early in the summer time around sunrise you will be greeted by hundreds of nesting swallows which will fly around your head as if to greet you to the day.

I use a home-built computer with a reconditioned SB Audigy interface running Sound Forge, Cubase SX, Reason, and a few hundred free plugins, synths, and assorted softwares. This is connected in varying degrees to a midi-controller keyboard (I don't mind plugging M-Audio - the Radium is awesone!), a tube preamp, a reverb/delay/flange pedal, and ancient Casio keyboard (got it for Christmas when I was 10), a Hammond S-100 Chord Organ that I picked up at a garage sale in Wyoming for 10 bucks, a Radio Shack mixer (good price, anyway), guitars, turntables, a joystick (for midi control), and the voices of my friends and I. Oh, and I listen to it all on 300W speakers that I built myself (I'm just really proud of them).