I've been making music in one form or another since 1987 and what started out as an after-school hobby has become somewhat of a lifetime project that has taken on a life of its own. I could literally bore the shit out of you with just exactly how this all came to be, but let's just say that it's been fascinating journey full of colorful characters, wacky misadventures, sleazy motels, amazing shows, broken equipment, missed appointments, blown speakers, sleepless nights, psychedelic daydreams, road-trips, head-trips, couch-trips, and everything else you can possibly imagine and even some shit that you couldn't. Trust me.
Besides the obligatory old-school hip-hop, I listen to just about EVERYTHING under the sun (jazz, punk, laser-disco, ambient, industrial, glitch, classic rock, synth-pop, breaks, new-wave, indie low-fi, etc), and I'm also a HUGE nerd/fan/pseudo-historian of Miami Bass and old school electro (pre-1990). If it has an 808, an SP-1200, and/or a vocoder, chances are that I love it.
As far as my production style, I like keeping it simple; dank, dirty, dusty, raw, lo-fi sounds and to hell with all of this sterile squeaky clean bullshit that plagues the world today. Maybe it comes from starting off humbly with a Casio SK-5 sampler with 2 seconds of 8-bit sample time, or perhaps it's from recording my first punk album on a broken 4-track in a shady motel room in Fort Lauderdale, but I like keeping my shit real and to-the-point. In the beginning, I was strictly hardware and to be honest, I was incredibly reluctant to venture into the world of computer music. Nowadays (and several years later), I still use hardware, but all of my sequencing and recording is done via software (Ableton Live just in case you were wondering), and it still amazes me that I can play an entire show with just my laptop and a MIDI controller.
With that being said, musically, I'm all over the map and it's next to impossible to pigeon-hole my music into any specific genre. It all just depends on my mood and where I stand in the world at that one particular moment.
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