I started writing music when I was 17... my first synth was a Yamaha PSS270 and then I got a Casio HT-700. Then I got a Korg M1 and an Atari 1040ST. This was back in 1988... shortly after the M1 was released. I was a cheesy music writing fool. In 89, I met Kevin Palmer who was a fresh new keyboardist with similar influences and we worked together off and on through the years... we still keep in touch, actually. He went on to get his degree in Computer/3D animation and minoring in music. In 90, I met David Forbus... a musician with similar interests... and he wanted to self-produce and release a CD featuring a collaboration project. We started with a song called "Perfect Picture", music by me, lyrics by Kevin Palmer. Kevin dropped out of the project and David wasn't pleased with my vocal talent (ha!)... so we decided to release an industrial instrumental album. The outcome was Novox "Negative Silence" (http://www.mp3.com/novoxproject& 9 songs by me and 2 songs by David... and the music was far from industrial... it was more moody, movie music... Novox flopped. We were trying to get a record contract by shopping our completed CD to companies, but we never got the big break... and we gave up on it. Years passed... I lived in California for a while... performed live under the moniker Corpsegrinder... industrial electronic noise. that was fun. Around 1996, I met and worked with one of the best guitarists I've ever met... we worked on a few tracks together... Around 1997, I got a copy of Acid Pro 1.0 and I messed with it a little... I couldn't see myself getting into that... it seemed like a nice little "toy". In 1999, I started using Acid more... but it was mostly pasting tracks into Acid... nothing noteworthy... I had sold my keyboard gear to help with the expense of moving and it was all I had... coupling that with wave editing... the first project that I released was Synthdog (http://www.mp3.com/synthdog) I started getting into internet promotion and I think I did okay with it... I released a "double CD" on mp3.com and I sold a few... but I saw synthdog as more of a stepping stone... experimenting with Acid and such... so I discarded that and moved on to... melodywhore was originally 'melody's a whore' and I chose that because I thought it sounded cool... and maybe a little controversial... I later shortened it to melodywhore. That started around December of 2000.