Sean collaborated with his friend Niel Caldwell, while at UC Berkeley, in a number of electronic instrumentals. Here are some of those pieces, each followed by Niel's commentary.
Apocalypse Dreams
Apocalypse dreams was in fact the 3rd tune we wrote together but the first one we were super-satisfied with. The first time I showed him Apocalypse Dreams, I brought it to his dorm on my iPod. A few days before he'd come over to my dorm and told me about an intense, fantastical apocalyptic dream he'd had the night before where animals had taken back the cities and all of that. I'd already put together the drum loop before he came over and when he got there we used a piano sound and he just jammed out for like an hour while I listened, very impressed. Then he went back to his dorm and Isolated out what i thought were some of the nicest parts and put together to composition adding the other instruments aside from piano. When I brought him the final product that day he put the headphones in and listened to the entire thing laying down on his dorm room bed. At the end of it he got up and hugged me. Said it was exactly what he would have wanted the final product to sound like. That's the kind of friend, good listener and true fan of music he was.
Latin Lightning
Latin lighting was the first, and i believe only, song that we collaborated on music and the composition. Sean did the dramatic intro in real time with the keyboards whammy-type dial. He also made the bass line for the main chorus and several other parts. There is a portion where the baseline harmonizes with an horn-like instrument at 2:12 and we were actually both playing on the keyboard simultaneously. It was super fun. Sean taught me so much about music. He taught me chords, chord progressions, jazzy little tricks. He definitely took me under his musical wing.
Bring Tha Rukus
Sean got super down and dirty with the baseline on Bring Tha Ruckus which was one of the first pieces we collaborated on while living together at the Lamda Chi fraternity house. Also we had a little deja vu moment when the chorus comes in at 1:20 since i was playing the lows on the piano while Sean harmonized with the highs. Once again, super fun. Perhaps even 'Too much fun!!' I really really love all of the baselines in this song which were all Sean's. He created them on a completely different day when I had made a drumbeat and asked for him to come grace it. Jake Smargon was in the room with us (only time he ever heard us play together) and I found the bass sound that wee all were really digging and Sean said he was going to try to get 'real real gangster with the baseline' (paraphrase), which he did.