In 1999, Mac and Sbrizzi faBIO started making music together as BIOnighT. Mac had no gear of his own at the time, so the duo relied on
faBIO's Gem S3 Turbo workstation for their first four albums. Mac borrowed that same instrument to record his first two officially released solo albums, "Aphasia" and "Dining Room."
It was an excellent instrument, but sample-based, which left little room for real sound creation.
That changed in 2004, when Mac finally got his own computer — an ancient one, but enough to start downloading the free plugin instruments and effects that generous developers
were making available (his gratitude to them runs deep; after all, his music only exists because of their work).
For the first time, he could record the music in his head, more or less as he heard it, without the lack of proper tools that had followed him his whole life. It was pure bliss,
limitations and all.
His first Berlin School album made with that new technology was "Black Light" — still one of his finest works, one of the very few he wouldn't change a note of.
Several fine albums came out of this 2005–2010 period, but the standout alongside "Black Light" is "Aelectroid," a deeply inspired record built around a group of
remarkable instruments from Poland. "Genesis of Alpha Nebula" is worth a mention too, it's a tribute to the '70s, as its title makes plain,
and his first album to embrace an intentionally "damaged" sound.
