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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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