It was winter of 1996... Fucking around; I suggested to my cousin; Sharcz; that it would be some funny shit if we all called ourselves by animal names based upon our personalities... One week later The Phoenix Zoo was born. It began with myself; Sharcz; Byrd (Eagle); and a couple others... We started recording songs with our 3 tape decks and 20 dollar Sony Microphone purchased at Best Buy; by the end of the first month; The Zoo was the most gruesome team of artists witnessed in this city; after K-Rab joined the group we felt we were on a trip to the top... By 1998; The Zoo's members reached over 60; and things got ugly as a result of this; so... The Zoo came to an unfortunate ending... K-Rab; Justus; Deonte; and Tunde branched off and became Cut Throat Logic; while myself; Sharcz; Byrd; and MacFnord became Division X... At this point in my career experimenting took over; when I went to the county jail for a 6 month stay I started writing my first solo album: Set Kozmic "Elixir"; which I finished recording and released in 1999... During this time I met Emerg McVay and Gensu the Blade (who added on the "Plyskyn" part of my name) and was introduced to the studio for the first time... The fire couldn't be stopped... Byrd and I created a side project; Sol Infynite; and we started recording simutaneously the Division X & Sol Infynite albums. We found our way to the Mason Jar; which gave us the chance to focus on performance as well as the quality of the songs we were writing... After releasing Division X "The Wicked City" & Sol Infynite "Times Are Hard" in 2001; I shifted my focus toward producing due to the fact that no producers I worked with could provide the intoxicating soundtrack needed to compliment our style... By 2003 I now desired the ability to record this music on my own as well; and got our first shitbox PC equipped with ACID 3.0 for recording purposes... 2004 saw the release of my second solo project: Megaton "Toxin" & Division X "Assault on Clone Factory 13"... I then enrolled in the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences to perfect my engineering skills; which lead me to taking an internship at Studio 11 with TreDeezy; there I met Bear The Astroknot and joined the group Eklektraphonik; releasing the album "Definition"... After leaving Eklektraphonik I focused again on solo projects; and released "Unusual Pharmecuticals" (2006) & "The Inferno" (2007)... Still traveling down this twisted path; I am currently finishing up the DMF album "Tha Shytt Hyttz Tha Fann"; as well as my next solo "Nocturnal" and a slew of side projects that shall for now remain nameless. That's all I've got to say about that.
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