Looking Back at 2000:

Are there any specific events (personal or otherwise), that happened during 2000, that impacted your music or music in general?

We're the band for the year 2000?! I believe we broke up that year, so my answer is definitely, yes. The specific event that impacted my music that year was that I found myself bandless! We all get along now, but often band break-ups are not unlike breaking up with a girlfriend. I remember being really pissed off that year about the way shit went down, but you always realize later that things happen for a reason; or at least you tell yourself that so you can get off a drinking binge. We were really starting to click musically in 1999 and I was really excited for what we were going to do next, but alas, it wasn't meant to be.

Tell us a memory or story around the 81:03 release in 2000? Why was it important to you?

We did the basic tracks at Alop Momin's (Dalek) parent's house in New Jersey. His parents let him take over their basement and he built a really cool home studio there. I remember tracking my guitar in his garage. I was especially excited about mixing 81:03 at Mix-O-Lydian; nestled in the beautiful rolling hills of New Jersey. It's a studio that's basically out in the middle of nowhere.....very outdoorsy. There was an apartment above the studio and you would stay there for however many days you needed to mix the record. It felt like camp. Its greatest asset for me was that The Misfits recorded "Walk Among Us" there. Awesome.

How would you say Insound has impacted indie music throughout the past 10 years? I haven't done any extensive research or written a thesis on the subject, but making indie music so accessible to everyone/everywhere for so many years has to be huge. I'm going to show my age here, but growing up the only ways I could find and or buy punk records was to visit the one record store in Denver (Wax Trax) that sold them, or physically mail order them from ads in Maximum Rock 'N' Roll. I use to buy money orders like they were going out of style, and looking back they were. I also mastered the art of hiding money in an envelope. Things have changed.