Career
Most of his music is under the influence of today"s modern popular punk, dance-punk, and emo music, but he does write some popular and hip-hop music as well. He also teamed up with Travis Barker in 2007, remixing popular hip-hop singles such as Throw Some Doctorate"s, Party Like a Rockstar, and Crank That Soulja Boy. Even though he has written some of the works of some of the aforementioned artists, he is not one of the main producers of many of these artists and he chooses not to put his cr for his work.
An original song written by such composer to be cited is yet to be found, however some has claimed an transcript of his name in one of the albums.
In late 2008, he has decided to move in a small town near Oulu, Finland to raise his family and is a high school teacher and does accounting for bill paying in the summer to support the family, along with music production projects part-time, but he still continues to produce music today, but not as much as he used to He did come back to help write a few new songs, such as In My Head by Jason Derulo.
He has quit his part-time job in accounting to allow more time back in the music production business, to make a revival. One of his most prominent projects is producing the band and influencing the style of the American band Hawthorne Heights.
That rock sound made the two premier Hawthorne Heights albums become massively popular.
One of his biggest masterpieces, Ohio Is for Lovers made a massive sensation throughout adolescence as an anthem of teen angst. Hawthorne Heights has cited the producer with the slogan "People’s is Dead" in advertisement, to generally prove that the manufactured boy band popular era is dead along with a protest of his production of many corporate popular punk bands that made the charts around 2004. While most of the music he produces is generally American, he produces bands from Germany, Russia, France, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
His work for t.A.T.u. and Tokio Hotel made the popularity of t.A.T.u. rise in Finland and Sweden.