Hello, nice to meet you. A little bit about myself. I have been making music since I was a kid. My first instrument was guitar and I began to take lessons from classical guitarist Peter Pupping at the age of 12.

A couple years later in a guitar shop I found a used tape recorder and I began to experiment recording my own music, laying sound over sound.

My first release into the world was in 2005 (Slow Poke EP by Richard Houghten) and came out on Boltfish Recordings in the UK. I was 20 years old and made the album while living in Seattle WA while studying music composition with Jarrad Powell at Cornish College of the Arts.

Everything changed for me when I heard Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté's album New Ancient Strings. His music guided me to create my own free vision of sound. DJ Shadow's album Entroducing was particularly influential to me as well as Aphex Twin's Drukqs.

Alongside recording my own music I began learning to cut my own records. I flew to Germany to study with Engineer Ulrich Sourisseau aka Souri.  After returning back home I met Richard Simpson, a cutting engineer who was kind enough to teach me to master records professionally on a  Neumann VMS 70 Lathe.

Being a musician and experimenter by nature I began to try different things with records. Anything unusual or different fascinated me.  Some of the projects include Holographic records that are able to play music while scattering reflective rainbows at the same time.

It is my hope to keep making new music and releasing albums for people to enjoy.

~Richard