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Missing," he tells, "Soft Light' was inspired by a series of interchanging images I saw on one of the world's top flash websites. Hydra Missing' track has gotten out of my blind experimentation with sound effects. Hello Stranger' appeared after I saw some extended documentary about deserts and their optical phenomena."

He surmises, "I never know what kind of impulse will hit my imagination next," and relates, "The more I write, the more meticulous I become. It's inescapable. Attention to details is one of the most important aspects in electronic music making. The more parts are used in one track the more delicate becomes a balance between them. Changing one element can require changing the others which are related to it, having the same effect added at different points can bring absolutely different results so you have to keep looking for an optimum and it is really easy to get lost in it. It is rare that I can clearly see the point when a track is in its final version, and I should not touch it anymore. Even when it happens, I always know that I will keep teasing myself to try more distortion with it or to extend a finale, etc etc. It is a sickness."

The vast sieve which Andrei stores his music ideas and pulls out these images for his compositions is bottomless. He expresses that electronic music provides him with a well of infinite possibilities for his compositions as he notes, "Electronic music, per se, is a quite challenge for a musician. It is not a kind of issue universally agreed upon, but in my opinion this genre takes a lot more skills and knowledge to operate than any other, all the way from the moment you start writing a song to taking your whole show on stage. It also allows me to express my ideas to much fuller extent, mostly due to additional sound dimensions that I can open and experiment with."

The artist whom Andrei admits opened his eyes to the possibilities of electronic music is the techno-pop duo Orbital, comprised of the brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. Andrei tells on his soundclick.com page, "It's hard for me to tell as to which extent, if any, my music reflects my influence. Although, I've been told on multiple occasions that certain compositions of mine do evoke strong associations with Orbital. Matter of fact, I never had an intention to become Hartnoll's follow-up act, but the overall cinematic character of my music is definitely a result of Orbital's impact on my creativity."

Andrei stresses that all of his music comes from his own

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