I went to my first party around '92 or '93. At that time, I was living in Stephenville, a small town about an hour south of Ft. Worth. My friends Derek and Amy were telling me about these parties that were going on in Dallas called "raves". Eventually, they managed to drag me to one - all I remember is that the original site of the party was shut down and that it was moved outdoors somewhere in the industrial section of Dallas, outside of some warehouses - totally renegade style, with a stack of speakers, two turntables, and a lighting set-up in front of a loading dock!

A few years later ('97 or so), I moved up to Ft. Worth with a few friends and we rented a big warehouse that we lived in and used as a practice space. I met Josh Meredith at work who gave me my first few programs to make electronic music, called Hammerhead and Rebirth; I guess that you could say that he was responsible for starting me down the path.

Believe it or not, I used to hate electronic music. I thought that it was boring and repetitive, that it was nothing more than pushing buttons and turning knobs. To me, all of it was "techno", and I didn't really care for it at all - that is, until somebody played me The Orb. But what really got me hooked was when my friend Will Palmer turned me on to the ambient masterwork Lifeforms, by Future Sounds of London. I had never heard music so sublime, so alien and yet, so evocative. From that point on, I became obsessed with making electronic music.

Living in a 6000 square foot warehouse meant that we came across a lot of people who wanted to rent it for parties. One of those people was a guy by the name of Jason Warner. I happened to play him some of the things that I was doing in Hammerhead while lamenting the fact that I really wished I had access to some hardware to see what I could do. A week later, there was a knock on the door, he dropped an EMU ESI-32 sampler in my hands, and my first electronic project Euphorius was born.