An upbeat collection of instant dance classics mixed with hints of dub, breakbeats, downbeat, drum and bass, and a few beautifully crafted experimental electronic pieces. The downloadable version of the album contains high quality scans of 14 original color drawings - one for each track.

• Released: 2009

• Catalog Number: Opus 56

This is a companion to 'Funk Shway'. It contains some interesting remixes of tracks on the album as well as some tracks recorded during the sessions for Funk Shway. The conversation at the end of the EP is an excerpt of a tape recorded by my father on the day they brought me home from the hospital (after being born) in 1971. They are discussing my family tree...

• Released: July 2007

• Catalog Number: Opus 55

Since I was born in the 1970's and have always been fond of the funk tunes that came from that era, I set out to record a seventies-style funk instrumental album in my basement recording studio (which I affectionately call the Flower Pot). This album has a very organic feel to it, using complex arrangements of live instruments, analog and digital synthesizers, and a variety of recording procedures. The results are an album that definitely captures the energy of 1971 but the subtle nuances of a modern recording. Each track is segued with random conversations with friends that I recorded at my coffee table (with their knowledge, of course!).

• Released: June 2007

• Catalog Number: Opus 54

Coming Soon...

• Released: 2006

• Catalog Number: Opus 53

Coming Soon...

• Released: 2006

• Catalog Number: Opus 52

This album has a very zen-like spiritual quality to it, at least for me. My studio is in my basement, with soft-colored mood lighting to accent the instruments. Since I often record my music in the early morning, between midnight and 4 AM - my most creative time of the day, I get a unique feeling hanging out down there. It's dark, but pleasant and pretty. When I stop playing, the air outside is absolutely silent. Playing music when no one else is awake is like visiting another galaxy where only you, the musician, exists. I sometimes feel like I'm sitting at the control panel of a large spaceship, my synthesizers being the steering wheel. I guess I might liken it to dreaming while awake...

• Released: 2006

• Catalog Number: Opus 51

This compilation is a companion to 'Loop Scoop'. It includes remixes along with a couple of outtakes (or b-sides) from the Loop Scoop sessions.

• Released: 2005

• Catalog Number: Opus 49

This is a highly experimental project for me, incorporating unusual recording techniques and unconventional methods of 'song writing.' It started as a desire to create a drum and bass album... and ended up being a journey through electronic sound.

• Released: 2005

• Catalog Number: Opus 48

Approaching Christmas 2004, I wanted to record a special album for friends and family - something I thought anyone could enjoy as a holiday gift. The solution? A relaxing recording of piano music with subtle synthesizer melodies peeking in and out of the picture - the perfect fancy dinner background music! Or a good album to clean house to. Or maybe a nice mood enhancer to put the finishing touch on a romantic evening... (don't forget the sensual massage oils).

• Released: 2004

• Catalog Number: Opus 47

Having a love for classical music is almost natural for a pianist - since a lot of classical music was written on and for the piano. When I was in high school, a friend of mine showed me an album of classical music made with synthesizers. Being a big fan of electronic music, I was instantly hooked - I always wanted to do my own 'version' of such a record! The catch was that I felt many classical songs would benefit from adding beats to them, something that affectionados would abhore! This EP is a collection of classical 'remixes'. The first half of the tracks are beat-oriented reworkings of classical compositions, while the second half are mellow synthesizer-only mixes that I thought you might find interesting.

• Released: 2004

• Catalog Number: Opus 46

With a love of both synthesizers and classical music, this album represents two great tastes that go together. It features a diverse array of popular classical tunes reworked with analog and digital synthesizers. Includes all 15 of Bach's two-part inventions!

• Released: November 2004

• Catalog Number: Opus 45

This is a companion to 'Herban Hi Phidelity' - a compilation of remixes, edits and b-sides. I'd call it an EP, but the total playing time pushes over an hour - so I thought I'd cheat and call it a compilation.

• Released: 2002

• Catalog Number: Opus 40

This album is a percussion-driven electronic jazz album, and on that note, it also is probably my favorite record I've recorded so far. If I had recorded this just a year or two later, it would've had a completely different tone - due to the fact that software based recording had taken me by storm. But because it was recorded before I discovered software based recording in full, this record was done using REAL analog synthesizers, a real analog mixing board with knobs and faders and a good portion of it was laid down first on a reel-to-reel tape deck before being mixed down to a digital format. At the beginning of 2001 in Seattle, we had a major earthquake that shook the area. Of course, I had my tape recorder running the whole time - capturing news broadcasts as information was becoming available. Those samples are appropriately woven in and out of the album.

• Released: 2002

• Catalog Number: Opus 39

This is a companion album to 'Spectrum Analysis'. It contains all of the tracks from the album in instrumental form. I released this because I thought that these songs, with their complex arrangements and heavy instrumentation worked quite well as instrumental pieces. Surprisingly, the album sounds much different without the vocal tracks on top.

• Released: 2001

• Catalog Number: Opus 38

These tracks were made with a lot of love and inspiration from the trip-hop movement of the late 1990's. I was delving deeply into lo-fi sampling and, more specifically, drum looping. A lot of the tracks have a very specific sound in the drums which was a result of the 12-bit sampling limit of my Korg sampler and the effects chain I ran it through. The result was unique and I have never since been able to duplicate the tone using other equipment. I also used the same effect on some tracks from the album 'Herban High Phidelity'.

• Released: 1999

• Catalog Number: Opus 36

Like a film-score to a film not-yet made, 'Fragrance' feels like the soundtrack to something spectacular. These tracks were written to have a very story-like sequence. These is a little bit of everything in here - from beautiful soundscapes mixed in with driving dance beats to funky retro loops to giant washes of sound. I feel like this album is a must have to your electronic music collection...

• Released: 1997

• Catalog Number: Opus 34

This is essentially a compilation of instrumental tracks I recorded during 1992-1994. Some of these tracks are instrumental versions of album tracks. Some of them are instrumental versions of vocal tracks that were on Synthetic Chocolate albums. Others are tracks that were intended for that purpose, but never used. I eventually had enough of these recordings to make this compilation possible, so I picked the best ones and viola! Now you can have 'em too.

• Released: 1994

• Catalog Number: Opus 29

I had always wanted to make a recording on a real acoustic grand piano but up until 1994, hadn't really had much opportunity. In the summertime, it worked out so that I could have a short time alone at my buddy's grandparent's house while they were away on vacation. They had a nice Yamaha grand piano that didn't get much use, but was regularly tuned. I jumped at the opportunity.

• Released: 1994

• Catalog Number: Opus 28

From deep techno beats and heavy analog bass lines to funky drum machine breaks and synth hits, this album is exactly what I was trying to do in 1994. I was spending time with a party crowd, going out to dance clubs and raves, and everywhere we went we were listening to techno. Listening to this record now, I feel it has a unique spin on the electronic-techno scene. The tracks are much more progressive and melodic than a lot of the 12 inch singles that were popular for that time. It was probably due to my jazz influence and love of pop music - the melodies just got worked in somehow.

• Released: 1994

• Catalog Number: Opus 27

All of these tracks have a sort of bond because they were born of the same jazzy spirit. Originally, some of these tracks were created for a live show. The rest of the tracks were various jazzy tracks that I was doodling with at the time, and this whole compilation just sort of came together on it's own!

• Released: 1993

• Catalog Number: Opus 23

Being an electronic music enthusiast since high school, I had recently explored a few new age records and got a little inspired. Most of these tracks began as experiments on my sequencer and evolved into soundscapes... I would best describe this album as mood inspiring background music, especially considering that I recorded most of this without any strong melodies purposefully (outside of solo sections). It was meant to be mood enhancing.

• Released: 1993

• Catalog Number: Opus 22

These tracks were orphaned, maybe for the better or maybe not. So I created this compilation to serve as a home for them. Having just recently aquired a sequencer (a recorder for synthesizers) and a mutli-timbral synthesizer, I spent many late nights looping sequences and drum beats. Sometimes I would get so wrapped up in what I was doing that I'd still be making music when the sun came up the next morning. These tracks are the ones that actually made tape at some point in time.

• Released: 1992

• Catalog Number: Opus 21

If there were such a thing as a greatest hits for my early recordings created while I was in high school, this would be it. For the compilation, I remixed some of the original tracks with a little bit of reverb (they were a bit dry), and a few of them got sliced and diced from their original form. So even if you have the earlier records, this release might prove to be interesting due to the shorter versions and improved sound quality on some of the tracks.

• Released: 1986-1989

• Catalog Number: Opus 13

Of the tapes that I affectionately call the 'early years', this is the last of them. I believe that it is my favorite, as well. It has all of the elements of a good dance music record with a lot of melody and more musicality than my previous works. I put a little bit of everything I had in me, at the time, into making this tape - including some pretty crazy digital delay experimentation on some of the new age tracks.

• Released: 1989

• Catalog Number: Opus 12

Since all of these recordings were made while I was still in high school and living with my religious and conservative parents, I had to hide some of them away (the so-called dirty songs) on an alternate cassette that I eventually called 'Dirty Dishes'. Nothing too crazy here, except the juvenille humor of a seventeen year old boy whose hormones had gotten the best of him.

• Released: 1989

• Catalog Number: Opus 11

I was nearing the end of my high school days (I was a senior), and I was pushing the abilities of my tiny bedroom recording studio to it's maximum. I'd picked up a digital delay from the local pawn shop and was learning tricks with it. The radio stations were pushing 'dance' music and house mixes, which in turn influenced a lot of what I was working on. This album is part dance record and part pop.

• Released: 1989

• Catalog Number: Opus 10

This was my 'official' homemade Christmas album I created while I was a junior in high school. I wanted it to sound electronic and technical, so I tried to pick sounds that were 'synthy', so to speak. While creating this, I got kind of bored of Christmas tunes and mixed in a few classical pieces I'd learned, but with the addition of my drum machine. Ah, the wonderful and very appropriate sound of THAT drum machine! Especially on a Christmas album...

• Released: November 1988

• Catalog Number: Opus 9

What can I say about this album other than I was seventeen years old, listened to dance music circa 1988, and was an average sex-obsessed horny teenage boy. The album title and concept completely revolve around themes of an 'adult nature' - the sampled breathing, the track titles and the pounding dance beats.

• Released: 1988

• Catalog Number: Opus 8

Growing up in church, I was fascinated with certain mysterious bible verses, such as this one: 'I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.' (Matthew 19:24). So I built the bulk of this recording as a concept album revolving around that verse. I was experimenting with vocal sampling and using my voice as a kind of 'guide' or narrator. Highlights include a comedy track mimicking my mother yelling at the neighbor's dog (true story!).

• Released: 1988

• Catalog Number: Opus 7

This is kind of a 'catching up' compilation featuring alternate versions of some of my early tracks, and includes 2 early compositions not found on other releases (I didn't know what else to do with them). Included is a piano composition I created for a college contest (I got honorable mention). Unfortunately, a poor quality cassette recording is the only recording I have of this piece (I no longer have the score, which I painstakingly created by hand).

• Released: 1987

• Catalog Number: Opus 6

The title track of this record was composed while I was on a road trip with my family to California for Christmas. I was humming out the idea and the melody just got stuck in my head. At first, it was pleasing to think about and I kept singing it to myself so I wouldn't forget it until I got home. I sang it over and over in my brain. But pretty soon, it became a nightmare that I couldn't shake, looping endlessly in my brain, even when other music was playing! I would hear it going to sleep and it would be waiting for me when I woke up the next morning. Upon returning home, I finally purged myself of it by recording it - many versions in fact. It became the theme of my new album and three versions are presented here, each with it's own twist.

• Released: 1987

• Catalog Number: Opus 5

At this point in my musical journey, I began wanting to become an accomplished composer and producer. I started pushing the limits of the recording techniques I was using, adding more complex instrumentation than before and experimenting with alternative ways of recording. So why is the theme all about Mathmatics? I don't really remember specifically, but for a short time in high school, I THOUGHT I was pretty interested in math because I tested into Calculous early. I soon found out, however, that despite my desire to be good at Math, I didn't have the attention span for it and ultimately ended up the class dunce!

• Released: 1987

• Catalog Number: Opus 4

I was really into Miami Vice and this was my Sophomore year at Rocky Mountain High School - which was about the furthest thing from Florida you could imagine. For this album , I planned the tracks much more carefully than before with attention to recording quality as well as performance. The funny thing is that while I was creating a lot of these songs, I actually imagined I was recording this album for an action movie like Vice! If only I'd had a pair of those silky pants with a matching jacket...

• Released: 1987

• Catalog Number: Opus 3

After owning a synthesizer for several months, I realized that everything would be much cooler if I had a drum machine to compliment my music. Overly excited about my new drum machine action, I began skipping school like mad - only to stay home and build 'beats' while my parents were at work. These machines we incredibly fascinating to a fifteen year old kid who'd never been exposed to such cool electronics.

• Released: 1987

• Catalog Number: Opus 2

Growing up in the snow laden foothills of Colorado, I spent a lot of my childhood indoors playing with electronics and stereo equipment. I finally got my hands on a real synthesizer when I was fifteen years old. Fascinated with it, I raced home everyday after school to mess around with making music on it. This is the oldest surviving recording I made as a kid - and the first recording I ever made with a synthesizer (my earlier efforts were all made with a microphone and odds and ends around the house).

• Released: November 1986

• Catalog Number: Opus 1