"Antipattern" is a computer science term that basically translates to "common mistakes". Wikipedia has a much better description of the term here.

John and Jason were both undergrads in the Computer Science program at UT Austin. They briefly met during their freshman summer orientation when John's Jane's Addiction t-shirt caught Jason's eye. That was the first Jane's shirt Jason had ever seen and he was quite the late-comer / after-it-was-cool-to-be-a-janes-fan janes fan. Jason complimented John on his awesome t-shirt and that was about it.

Years later the two future rock stars crossed paths again in an Operating Systems course and they shared some coding adventures as a student team working on exciting concepts such as journaling file systems built with multiple layers of abstraction and other boring topics like that.

Jason learned of John's musical talents and interests while working with him in their college operating systems course. At that point John had quite a history of musical accomplishments and Jason became an instant fan.

After the OS course, the two parted ways and kept in touch sporadically over the span of a few years. Jason picked up musical aspirations somewhere in the middle of that timeline, and he eventually came to the conclusion that he'd be better able to learn and improve his skills if he worked with someone rather than kept working alone.

At that time, Jason lived in Texas and John lived in Florida, but Jason had heard of The Postal Service's feats of long-distance collaboration and figured he could work in a similar setting with John, so he e-mailed John and the first bit of musical ideas were floating back and forth a few months later.

The Negative Space sessions began in March of 2006. That was when Jason sent John a cd with 15 or 16 scratch tracks to listen to. Both John and Jason spent the next year working with some of those tracks and adding a few new songs into the mix as well. The album was in a near-final state by the end of the Summer in 2007, but busy work and school schedules prevented finalization of the album until the Spring of 2008.

John and Jason do plan to work together on more music in the future.

Jason uses m-audio pianos, m-audio audio interfaces, boss effects pedals, shure mics, a yamaha acoustic guitar, an epiphone les paul, a line-6 amp, various toy pianos, and a couple of shitty fender squier guitars. He works with (and sometimes against) Apple's Garageband software. He also occasionally fixes things with the awesome open-source audio app known as Audacity.

John has all kinds of stuff. Currently he's using a Peavy Patriot Bass, a Yamaha RGX112 electric guitar, a Zoom Player for guitar FX, a Korg MS2000R synth with the occasional freebie Soundfont, a Boss DR-770 drum machine, a Roland SP-808 Sampler, and an oft-labeled "crappy" Casio ctx-601 as his midi controller. N-Track studio is his DAW of choice.

The Antipatterns are not currently sponsored by any music equipment vendors. However, interested parties may be excited to learn that any free sponsored gear will have a huge captive target audience of John's wife, Jason's fiance, and five cats.

The Antipatterns self-publish their music. They write, perform, record, produce, mix, and publish everything on their own. Self-publishing music would not be possible without affordable recording gear, the internet, and great services provided by the following vendors:

• Dreamhost provides affordable web-hosting.
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• CD Baby provides cd UPC codes, pushes your music to digital distribution services like iTunes and Amazon, and sells your cd online.
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• Last.fm will host your music online, keep track of who's listening to it, and provide an easy way for consumers to hear your stuff.
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• Pandora Radio, Amie Street, SnoCap, and SoundClick are also great ways to get yourself heard.