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I love Puerto Rico. The exceedingly hospitable guys running this label invited me to PR twice - each time was fantastic. The first time was when I was living in Minneapolis, the second time was from Berlin. Talk about 180 degrees of culture difference, and about 90 degrees of temperature difference. I love eating fish for breakfast. Unfortunately, Etihad’s too-short life ended after just two releases. This is their first (ET-001). You gotta admire the two extra zeros - that’s the beauty of ambition.

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Imagine what an empty subway tunnel would sound like in a thousand years.

Underling is my second ambient CD, released on my own Kodama label. I was working in Minneapolis at Yamamoto-Moss, a fancy design company that had catered lunches every day. They designed logos for Pillsbury and things like that - I worked in IT. I worked there for less than a year - just enough to get a PowerMac G4. Its 400 Mhz was a lot more impressive back then.

This is the first time this album has been available online.

My second album, a product of the Minneapolis winter. There was a coffee shop right up the street from my apartment. It was called something terrible, like “Cyber Cafe”: There were tons of dog-eared magazines in between the crust-filled cracks of an eclectic sofa collection and some PCs to play games on. They closed at midnight, and I would walk there every night at 11:55 and get a big cup of coffee. Then I would stomp back through the snow to my apartment and work on music for a few hours. I didn’t have a TV, and the only Internet I had was dial-up. After making some money with Parallel Processes, I was able to write music full-time.

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My first album. Released on a small record label located in some enigmatic corner of London, run by two guys named Rocket and Django. I made this album in 1997 and 1998 while living in Minneapolis, fresh after graduating college. On paper, I studied biochemistry and history, but I spent most of my time fiddling around with samplers.

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This is my first release that received some attention from the IDM crew in the late 90’s. Only 300 CDR’s were made, each hand-assembled with an inkjet printer and a little bit of matching felt (which you can see if you look closely on the right handed side of the album scan).

The first track is the famous Phoenecia remix from those boys in Miami.

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