How did I get into music? How did I become a producer/rapper? 

Well, writing horror stories in high school was my first foray into creativity. No surprise since one of the first books I ever read as a child was 'IT' by Stephen King. With this taste for dark writing, it should be unsurprising that I became obsessed with Bone Thugs N' Harmony when I heard 'E. 1999' for the first time. While writing down their hyperdrive speed raps so that I could rap along, I felt the urge to start writing my own rhymes.

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As I filled page after page of notebooks with my teen raps, I was also falling in love with movies and becoming a cinephile, a process which led to me paying attention to soundtracks and movie scores. I loved the tension, atmosphere, emotions and sense of place that these pieces of music conveyed. While my eyes feasted, my ears ate up  the works of Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter, Philip Glass. And it was then I knew what I wanted my music to sound like. A widescreen cinematic take on hip-hop.

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Later on, in college, I started getting into soundtracks of videogames like Metroid, Castlevania, Zelda, Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy etc. This only added to my desire to build worlds out of sound and transport people to a different place with my music. Hence my music mutated,  transcending hip-hop's boundaries into more experimental electronic music.

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After college, I cut my teeth in the Chicago music scene in a bunch of bands. But after my last bandmate decided to move back home to Florida, I decided to go the solo route and thus M.U.T.T. was born

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This site is a space for me to share all the things that I love within the realm of music as a creator and a curator. I will be sharing my own M.U.T.T. projects and their accompanying visuals, playlists I've curated with all the dope songs that I find as a rabid music fan, beats/loops/samples for sale, selling merch and info on any upcoming events/shows.