Parents started me off playing the piano at the age of 4, so I didn't quite have a choice in the matter, but it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened. From there it was piano recitals and choir concerts nonstop. At some point I got into BBSing and became quite obsessed with the 'demo scene' and online music groups like the Kosmic Free Music Foundation. This inspired me to start making music of my own with Multitracker and Screamtracker and releasing them through BBSes under the name "Purple People Eater" (shut it!). I still have all those hundreds of songs, and they're so fantastically horrible - it's hilarious. Edgeclub and the Dallas rave scene convinced me to get a couple turntables and start the DJ thing. Adopted the name KiloWatts at that point and went on a 3 year indecisive journey through spinning funky breaks, then epic trance, then progressive house. 2 years ago I sold my turntables and bought a bigger, badder computer and decided it was high time I started making my own music again.

It's not out of the ordinary to hear me do something soft and ambient directly followed by something with ball-shattering bass from hell, so I couldn't tell ya.

The KiloWatts solo project is a fusion of idm, ambience, storytelling, and melodic structure. It's basically a reflection of everything I want to hear, and I'm sure it relates to my own life experiences somehow - but I'd be insane to give it a deeper meaning than "what I was feeling at the time."

The KiloWatts & Vanek project is collaboration with a friend halfway across the world in Belgium over the internet. We have met only once to perform together in Germany. Our music has been deemed 'glitch-pop' by those who love it - a combination of experimental glitchy breaks and beats with strong structured vocal songwriting, and just an overall fun time. It covers a wide range of subjects, but the sound is centered around the marriage of man and machine - giving mechanical music a soul, and allowing the soul to be abducted by the machine.