"At around the age of five I got bored of playing the same old piano-toy, begging my parents to buy me some more decent stuff."

Starting out with some Bontempi-like keyboard, soon to be replaced with a more fancy organ, xPandr grew an early fascination for sounds and synthesis, resulting in his first second hand Korg Poly-800 with a funky joystick.

Spending almost his entire teenage years hammering this thing, he spent all his money on an Ensoniq VFX-SDII workstation, writing and producting some NDW songs with a classmate in a band called "Don't Mention The Dog" resulting in 2 tape-albums (note from the artist : "don't look for them, they barely got distributed, but they did contain some interesting songs").

Joining Radio Scorpio - a local pirate radiostation - techno, minimal and mainly pure underground acid music, the raw sounds of the underground got his attention during his radio-DJ years. With the philosophy of NDW ("music should be fun") taken to the more modern electro-level, things started rolling ...

"more synths, consoles, software were stacked in a small room, resulting where I stand today."