Multi-instrumentalist, producer, mixer and remixer from Chicago (IL, USA). In 1985 he landed at the Chicago underground scene and started to book shows and hosting a radio program. He founded Bastro which was renamed to Gastr Del Sol in 1993 but became more a project by David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke and the band remised in 1998. He was a founding member of Tortoise, which first was called Mosquito, but left them in 1995. Then he collaborated with lots of different projects but didn't have a steady band the rest of the decade. Directions was his most steady band, but was also always in flux. He was more interested in mixing, remixing and producing jobs as well as composing film music.