The official bio notes for refrag available at various Independent Music sites read like absurdist short stories. Some of the band members are murdered during a Salvation Army charismas party. Additional band members are incarcerated for unethical scientific studies with insects and fruit. The underground cult participants who comprise the band are exposed as Jehovah's Witnesses and swiftly dis-banded. Assuming that none of this is true, who really makes this unique and genre-bending music? Desmond Murphy of Auckland, New Zealand is the one-man electronic orchestra behind the music of refrag. Des began making music in the early 80's when he played bass in a band he describes as "punk and also shite." The members of The End Band were "very bad", in Des's estimation. The band remained together for three years but never got any better. After the demise of The End Band, Des continued to record demos and found a few gigs in a series of bands with another of its original members. The name of the new band changed from week to week to disguise its reputation. In 1998, his participation in the production of lousy live music ended, and Des got his first PC. He began to "mess around with music sounds" and the PC made it "easy to get the sound I like." In 2001, Des relocated from London to New Zealand, his wife's home, and the country where their son was born. With this move, refrag was conceived. Working in Reason 2.5, Wavelab 4, and with the recent introduction of Melodyne into his com