I first met Joe Reineke in early 1989, when he caught our band, Vomit Launch, on a middle slot between Nirvana and Mudhoney in San Jose, California. He had a band called The Mice (soon renamed The Meices), and we began playing shows together. When The Meices broke up, Joe's new band, Alien Crime Syndicate, carried on and he ended up in L.A. Soon, though, he found himself in Seattle, Washington, and in 2002 he opened Orbit Audio, a full service studio downtown.