Though making his hip hop debut with MC Homeless at age 8 with various acapella tracks recorded on a fisher price tape recorder John/Cue\Publik aka John Quackenbush began producing music in 2001 after several years playing instruments such as Piano, trumpet, and bass guitar. In 2002 while taking bass guitar lessons from Joe Bouchard (original Bassist for Blue Oyster Cult) John realized he literally had no ability whatsoever with the bass guitar about the same time that he came to the realization that Joe Bouchard had a ton of knowledge to share on the topics of recording and analogue synthesis so over the next few months John set about trying to learn as much as possible. In 2004 John toured with MC Homeless before realizing his place truly was in the studio. A year later IDM for Emo Kids, an album released through cdbaby.com came to be. Not exactly content with his first commercial release John set about practicing in his free time sharing free releases with friends and other musicians via various online music promotion outlets. The bulk of the best solo releases can be found on Beardologyrecords.com on the Benchwarmer collection. John shortly thereafter released a free collection of instrumentals and collaborations with Nomar Slevik in John and Nomar Vs the World also on Beardologyrecords.com which quickly became the most highly downloaded album on the site. John is featured on various MC Homeless and Nomar Slevik releases as well as a some of the Goosebumps compilations. Throughout the years John has produced in genres such as glitch, IDM, hip hop, trip hop, dub, dubstep, drum n bass, and breakcore. Traces of his experience in all these genres can usually be heard mashed together in most of his work. Anyone who is a fan of the more psychedelic side of downtempo electronic music is sure to enjoy the majority of his releases.
