The MP3 is the equivalent to the old 7-inch vinyl single, but in digital form. The hard drive has become the virtual storage shelf for your CDs. The future doesn't have tangible formats like CDs and DVDs any more, only digital transfers and personal storage medium, like your iPod or your home network that feeds your entire house with music and video. CDs and DVDs will go the way of the 8-track.

I like the way MP3s are cheap to make and easy to distribute. The entire workflow from musical idea to marketable product is a lot easier and cheaper than it was only as recently as fifteen years ago. MP3s have made it possible for little artists with big dreams to market themselves rather easily and inexpensively, bringing the occasional independent artist into the spotlight and getting his dream of praise for his talent as an artist come true. In the independent MP3 industry, whether your music gets heard by the entire world no longer depends on how many million copies of your CD is sold, but is rather driven by the very seed of the industry, your music.

I can't really say I'd be interested in signing with a major record label. The record industry is like a big ecosystem pyramid with the money flowing upwards to the lion, or king of the whole industry. Lots of people in the pyramid all trying to get a buck for your work, and you get to live the glamorous life if you got that commercial, "let's mass produce an emotion" sound.

Let's be real for a second. My music is about music, not mass-production. The lion at the top of the pyramid isn't you, the artist. You're unfortunately at the bottom, giving up your life to serve everything above you in the food chain.

The commercial music industry has forgotten what actually makes the sale of a CD, and that's the music, the talent. Not the makeup, the bling or the navel.

My musical influences come from listening to synthesizer works of Tangerine Dream, Jan Hammer, Robert Miles, Mike Oldfield and Jean-Michel Jarre. Sometimes the occasional progressive rock influence can be heard here and there in my music, which is why I like to categorize my music as "progressive electronic".

I use an M-Audio Delta 1010LT as the hub of my entire gear. From it spawn my Roland JV-1010, Oberheim Matrix 6R, Yamaha TG500 and my master controller Edirol PCR-80. My Cubase SX is also the springboard for many software synths.