Since "Going Digital" in 1999 I started recording tracks with Kevin Phillips under a couple of guises. KSX became the outlet for our breaks and beats and otherwise harder material, whereas Porntsar represented our funkier offerings.

During this time, as I have a tendency to stay up all night, I produced a stock of tracks that didn't really fit in either camp. Somewhere between deep house and Underworld. So I decided to put a collection of them together and started trying out the various DRM sites about at the time. like mp3.com etc. Finally settling on ampcast.com, as they offered a better CD purchasing option, I released hyperreal and supercool as starck, to suggest the minimal feel I hope comes across in the tracks. The album title came from a phrase in a book called Hard, Soft And Wet by Melanie McGrath

The ampcast connection didn't last long and for 2002's Advanced Emotional Engineering I decided I would be just as well to produce the CD myself and promote it through this website. Another album title taken from a book. This time, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

The tracks from these two albums are currently unavailable, until I get it together to get them posted elsewhere but I hope to get the third album, Me++ out on CD some time this year. You can hear a few tracks over at MySpace

During 2001/2002 I put up some of the parts from a few tracks on this website as downloadable zip files and invited other artists to remix the tracks which resulted in Ctrl U being remixed by Pace, from Australia, X-Ray Specs, in the UK and Frank Goss, from France. If you want to have a go, the files are on the left. Just e-mail me when you're done.

In return I have also remixed various artists, including two tracks for X-Ray Specs" and one each for Lefthands and Franck Goss.

I also collaborated with Romanian outfit The GrooveOholics to produce Jackie Snow during this time.

Click the little blue play buttons on the left to listen.