No Curfew Kids

I became interested in making music almost as soon as I first fell in love with the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack. Early attempts at this were switching between tracks on the previewer, some sort of rudimentary DJing. The common theme with my music despite the jumps in sounds from tracks and albums, is that I approach each song as a sort of art puzzle, where it doesn't particularly matter where the pieces go, if they fit, or what the end result looks like. To me, approaching art in a sense of it being "good" or "bad" is a waste of time. The truth to me is that the real deciding factors are things such as artistic intent, the emotion behind them, and the listener's enjoyment of a song. By this train of thought, I find that especially if a song can make me laugh or feel like I've been sent on any sort of journey, then it is a valuable experience to be had.

I started with noise music, then went into industrial, electronic, and ambient territories, as well as many others. I hope you find something that resonates with you among my work.

I started with a series of releases meant to be jokes, first an EP with my brother called Trustan His Skeelz as MC Trustan in 2013. A few years later, I returned to production and started posting noise/experimental releases to Bandcamp with the encouragement and inspiration of a music forum I was part of. While attending community college, I was in a band called Black Bouquet and I focused the majority of my musical efforts playing drums in the band. I released my first No Curfew Kids release in 2018, after having held on to the name for a few years. It wasn't until 2020 and all that ensued that I became seriously involved in my solo music, making many different releases with different genre elements. It's always been true of my approach that I make things usually quickly, focusing on tracks until they are done in a single sitting. For that reason, it often feels to me like a puzzle to solve through unorthodox means.

I perform live regularly, about once or twice a month now. I progressively formed my act into being an improvised performance rather than a listening party, when I didn't know what to do live yet. I loved performing at American Babylon 8 in 2024, playing in the Greenville, NC music scene is always a special time, they know how to party out there.

Coil, David Wise, Sophie, Neil Young, The Knife, Grouper, HTRK, Oneohtrix Point Never, Jun Konagaya, Kraftwerk, Charli XCX, Mutant Joe, Earl Sweatshirt, Arca, Animal Collective, La Dispute, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sam Ray, Swans, the xx, Have a Nice Life, Andy Stott, Harmonia, Cluster, Kelman Duran, Brian Eno, Psychic TV, At the Drive-In, Acetantina, Don Zilla, The KLF, Bull of Heaven, Bomb the Music Industry!, Jeromes Dream

Drummers: Janet Weiss, Sarah Lund, Brann Dailor, Dale Crover, Zach Hill

Drum kit, drum machines (Korg), acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitar, keyboard, mandolin, violin, VST synths, self made and acquired samples, harmonica, recorder