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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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