AUG 2010……
The Echelon Effect came to life amid the long winter nights of February 2009, born from a burning desire to fall in love with music again. It started with a laptop and an idea: write a track, and make it huge. But one track became four, an EP that needed an audience. The tracks were posted on MySpace. And people began to listen.

‘Leaving It Behind’ was followed by two more EPs and remixes for The Appleseed Cast and City Breathing. Word spread, and the tracks began to attract positive reviews and gather airplay. What had begun as a way to stave off the dark and the cold had turned into something more.

The Echelon Effect’s debut full-length, ‘Reunion’, was the final part of a quartet of recordings that form ‘Wires and Tapes,’ an 141-minute sequential loop of tracks, each bleeding into the next and the last into the first. As a thank-you to the people who had been instrumental in the evolution of the Echelon Effect, fans were invited to record spoken statements about what home meant to them, which were incorporated into the album’s title track.

More remixes followed, for God Is An Astronaut, Codes In The Clouds, Our Ceasing Voice, Good Weather For An Airstrike and EVOLV among others. In March 2010 The Echelon Effect began work on ‘Mosaic’, their second full-length, featuring the addition of Steve T on drums, it was released on August 9th 2010.

Pushing forward a new project in which the entire year of 2011 is depicted in film. The audio to this being released throughout the year in four EP's. Part 1 was released on 18th April. 

I'm studying nanotech now. Still posting new tracks when I'm in the mood.

Mike Boudet, an internet marketing specialist and media personality, began his own podcast called Sword and Scale in 2013. The podcast brings listeners true-crime content featuring compelling interviews, witness testimony, and the presentation of evidence delivered with professional-level sound engineering and effects. Since beginning the podcast, Mike Boudet has released more than 100 episodes for his listener base and has earned such accolades as a 2017 Podcast Award in the society and culture category. 

To promote Sword and Scale, Mike Boudet travels to industry events. He recently appeared at the Podcast Movement convention and plans to attend CrimeCon 2018 as a featured speaker. He also studies fiction to learn how to better tell stories.

Complementing his interest in podcasting, Mike Boudet has extensive experience in Internet marketing, including pay-per-click and search engine optimization practices. Previously, he served Symantec, maker of cybersecurity software, as Internet marketing manager. The position required that he optimize Symantec’s website content so that people had an easier time finding it when using search engines.

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Host of the true crime podcast Sword and Scale.

To see which tracks are used in a particular episode, please visit our site at http://swordandscale.com

Spheriá was a German ambient music and sound design project, founded in late December 2013. It started off as an alias for exploring different styles of music production. Part of the soundscapes were combined with recorded instruments, voices and sounds from different environments.

During 2014 and the upcoming years, Spheriá published several recordings and also performed at small live sessions with other musicians. A first hiatus took place in 2015. The project resumed in late 2016 and continued at first. After another break had occured in 2024, the project permanently concluded in late March 2025.

Other projects that Spheriá was active with were "Háiku" and "Natura Silentia", with the latter focusing more on fictional places in nature, combined with writing from imagination. 

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