Written and recorded September-October 2006 in Miami.

This album was written for a good friend of mine, Ian Port, on the occasion of his wedding. The songs are fairly different stylistically from track to track, but in general could be described as utilizing the Meshuggah method in a pop context. Most of the songs on this album are duets with the computer, via the wonderful Vocal Writer program.

Written and recorded July 2006 in Miami.

After the first Battle Master album and the Girl Adventure EP, I felt ready to take the concept somewhat further than one might expect it to go. This one-track EP is essentially a microtonal Meshuggah-style metal song with a soundmass string accompaniment arranged for NES-style synthesizers. As I am somewhat ignorant of "real" drumming, I had to ask Bob, Patty, and Richard a lot of questions about blastbeats and toms in order to get this to sound the way that it does. This is probably the most difficult track I've ever done.

Written and recorded December 2006 in Miami.

This EP came about because my sister requested that for Christmas I set a few of her poems to music. I hadn't set text before, and was extremely pleased with the outcome. Wendy's poems are excellent, and each one had a specifically different esthetic which translated easily into different musical forms.

Written and recorded February-August 2006 in L.A. and Miami.

Ixtli is Bob Ladue and I. For the first EP I gave him drum tracks, and he wrote the music, this set went (mostly) the other way around, with Bob doing the drums first, and me writing the music afterwards. The exception is the 2nd track, which was written by bob, and arranged for video game style synths by myself. Ixtli round 3 is well on it's way to completion.

Written and recorded Nov '05 - Feb 2006 in L.A. and Miami.

Ixtli's first EP happened by accident when I asked Bob if he wanted to write music to some of my drum tracks, and he responded by saying "Do your worst!". The songs on this EP are difficult to describe, but fit somewhat nicely into a genre my friend Matt and I invented called "IDM prog-core". This EP set the standard for the no-holds-barred absurdity that Ixtli would eventually come to represent.

Written and recorded in about a week, some time last spring 2006 in Miami.

Patrick and I decided that Hibiscus needed another person, so we enlisted Andrew McGwire for the job. Andrew is an excellent percussionist, and really rounded out the Hibiscus sound with his vibraphone playing. As opposed to the first EP, Sightless sounds much more "live", and with the democratization of the wring process, reaches into new territory with both song form and dynamic contrasts (for example, patrick's very Villians-esq ostenato piece). My personal favorite is the first track, which Andrew wrote.

Written and recorded some time in 2005 ...(?) in Miami.

The first Hibiscus EP was sort of a noise/drone expirment that kind of got out of hand when I decided I wanted live drums put with it. Patrick played all of the drums, which I later edited. Originally there weren't supposed to be any synths at all, but they ended up being an integral part of the Hibiscus sound.

Written and recorded November '06-February 2007 in Miami. * = written by Bob Ladue.

This is a collection of tracks I've done over the past couple of months. Most of these songs should be taken with a grain of salt, most of them are very facetious and a few are somewhat offensive. This album was actually supposed to be a late 90's style trance album, but it ended up going somewhere else entirely. The song Valentine was written and recorded on Valentine's Day.

Here are a few songs that don't quite have a home yet.

• I'll Make Love To You (Remix)
• You Are The Light (String arr.:Patrick, vocals: Auska Barden, guitar: Rainer Davies)
• Sneeky Remix (ANR)
• Skeleton Remix (Jason Aaron)
• Naked (Bob Ladue version)