For back-story, search: net_noise.

'0x86' began in Austin Texas with an emphasis on a broad variety of intelligent and experimental electronic music. During the early 2000s, he played numerous events with organizations such as Last Laugh, Texaliens, Artificial Music Machine, and Amoda. 0x86 was also a resident at Downtemple, a weekly downtempo night held at Elysium Nightclub, where he refined his eclectic downtempo style.

Although initially focused on IDM and dark drum & bass / techstep, 0x86 has settled in to two main modes: downtempo (incorporating IDM, ambient trance, trip-hop, dub, and ambient), and breaks (incorporating nu/progressive breaks, electro, psy breaks, with various flavors of house and techno for variety).

0x86 relocated to Seattle, WA in 2005, thus starting a new phase in the story and upping the downtempo ante as a regular with the Chillography crew.