Going beneath the moniker from the Alchemist, Dustin Morris began tinkering with ambient sounds and samples by the end of 1997. Merging additional components of techno and drum’n’bass, the Vancouver indigenous spent another two years rotating and making combine tapes which were locally distributed. By 2000, the digital mag DMR connected the Alchemist up with a contribution because of their two-CD compilation Interstellar Tranquility, Vol. 2.