The past helps to shape the present and the future. Music, art, politics, society; all play a part in what is and what will be. Such is the story of Small Dot Complex.

In 1997, a fledgling project entitled The Sleeping Pill was undertaken. Never officially releasing anything except a few demo cassettes for personal feedback, the project name was later changed to In Search Of Sleep. It lasted for 4 albums but never amounted to much. Trying to combine elements of soundtrack music, shoegaze, darkwave, and industrial produced spotty results at best. But for every mistake lessons can be learned and thus, the project was more an experiment with textures and technology to set the stage for what would become Small Dot Complex.

In 2001 the technology became easier to use and understand and thus Small Dot Complex was born. Time had not diminished ideas and thus a new sound was created. Still drawing on the same influences but this time, armed with a slightly better sense of how to make music, the first two SDC releases were again experiments. Soon after the second album, Meditation For Cyborgs, things began to change within the SDC engine and a “sound” would be established.

In 2007, Small Dot Complex released what was then considered the best song written by the one-man-project. Zeijaku, from the Sketches EP, broke all expectations from the project. Taking all of the influences gathered over the years and wrapping in the aural equivalent of a paper-thin wrapper, Zeijaku presented a melancholy yet beautiful mood and atmosphere and became a reference point to draw in new listeners. The song gathered attention from a weekly paper in Santa Barbara, California.

Not to rest on the small bit of success, 2008 saw the release of SDC’s “magnum opus” titled Sound Construction. Combining themes of socialism, capitalism, and American and European history, these themes were juxtaposed to create music intended to make the listener ponder. The end result was a ten-song cd that is considered by most people to be the best thing released by SDC. As if that wasn’t enough, Small Dot Complex also took on the project of remixing the entire sixteen-song concept album from Nine Inch Nails titled Year Zero as well as a few songs from the Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts. The five song remix ep is titled The Five Ghosts Of The Apocalypse. The latest addition to the catalog is the EP titled Drown.