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I am terrible at updating, but just for the record, I've managed, through no effort of my own, to get a song into a terrible movie. Well, not even, quite. In fact I only have a track in the behinds the scene-DVD. Probably menu-music or some such. If only the track could play over the scene where Paris Hilton dies. If only. Regardless, I got a check, and my father's long-ago comments that no one would pay for the sort of music I wrote are rendered even more laughable. And just for the record, they really do troll mp3 sites like this for songs. I was contacted out of the blue. So never doubt that it can happen.

I write all my music without the benefit of a sequencer, having learned to compose in Soundforge, simply mixing wav files directly. People often ask how it's done. Here's how.

Some time ago, following the release of Rainwalker and assorted other glitchy IDM in fall of 2002, I hit a period of writer's block, eventually resurfacing with some remixes around Christmas and the 2 clockwork pieces in February. In fact, the writer's block was mostly exagerated. Sure, it was bit more of a struggle to complete songs for a time, but I had a driving purpose: A split release with Cats on Earth, for which I had compiled 10 completely unreleased tracks by January 2003. Sadly, as is often the case, that project eventually got brushed aside and never saw release, languishing in my forgotten back catalogue for 2 years. But now, as that split actually contained some of my best work of that time, it's time to clear ouot the clutter and get that music out to you at last. So here it is: Structure and Chaos, out on Stefan Koopmanschapp's fine (if unimaginatively named) weblabel, Laidback Electronica, which has also released Icotec, Seestrings, and Lackluster. The tracklist: 01: Annihilate The Thought 02: Jackalope Baroque 03: March Of The Lemmings 04: Anxiety 05: He Still Saw Elephants While 1,2, and 5 were all completed in Jan03, 3 was actually much older, a refugee from a proposed 4-way split from Nov01 (so Intona-era, even), and 4 is actually new, created entirely from field recordings last summer. What became of the other 6 original tracks, you ask? (or I would like to imagine you would ask, at least). Well, those really aren't worth inflicting upon the world whatsoever. Just trust me on this one. Oh, and there's also another new song up here, "Escape Velocity", a remix of an old compilation track I did for Unschooled records, built on a timing oddity. Yes, it's a gimmick, but gimmicks can be fun. More soon.