Playing tracks for people, helping to illuminate the path to better music, has been Silpher's passion ever since he started making Industrial and EBM mix tapes with a single cd player and tape deck, early in his teens.

In the fall of 1992, Silpher discovered the Oregon rave scene. It was love at first sight, reorienting his focus directly on everything related to Electronic Dance Music, starting with helping to found the University of Oregon's campus radio station (KWVA), as the Electronic Music Director. Since then, in addition to consistently introducing his listeners to the outlying frontiers of Electronic Dance Music, Silpher has promoted events, owned and operated a ServoDrive / Sound Physics Labs sound system (Stylus Systems), owned and managed a record store (Stylus Grooves), designed party flyers, and is always down to teach anyone how to spin records.

Currently, Silpher resides in Portland, OR, making sound systems sound better.