stAllio! is an independent artist living in Indianapolis. He's best known as the founder and lead member of the band Animals Within Animals, but has also issued several solo releases as well as experimenting with the visual arts and video.

His latest release is the post-mashup EP Mash Smarter Not Harder, available for free download from Bad Taste Music Exchange. This EP introduces a new style that takes the mashup aesthetic to the next level. Samples shuffle in and out, then back in again before you even notice them. the music flips, skips, and hops between your favorite hits so effortlessly you could be forgiven for thinking it was all meant to be this way. This new style—whatever you call it: post-mashup, dance collage, new-school bootleg—mixes the energy and danceability of Girl Talk with the subversive wit of Negativland and John Oswald.

His past musical work has included other plunderphonic and collage work, most of it available for free download, including 2003's Maura's Milk Chocolate Bath and the 2007 compilation parody Droplift II, as well as four releases to date with Animals Within Animals. He's also been a proponent and pioneer of databending—the creative misuse of digital information in ways other than was intended—and has released dozens of songs incorporating databend sounds as well as two releases dedicated exclusively to such sounds (Dissonance Is Bliss and the True Data 12").

A few years after discovering databent audio, he started applying what he'd learned to the field of visual arts, experimenting heavily in the field known as glitch art and posting about it on his blog and on flickr. He's also experimented with databending in the video realm.

While much of his work has been under the radar, stAllio! has occasionally earned national (and international) attention. His contributions to the Dictionaraoke project were among the site's most popular, and were featured on TechTV and elsewehere.

In 2002, the Animals Within Animals track "Hello" was included in the seminal mashup compilation Boom Selection Issue One, hailed by The Onion's AV Club as one of the best albums of 2002. The track to this day remains one of stAllio!'s most popular compositions.

The following year, his George Bush cutup piece "We Will Iraq You" was mentioned in the August 2003 issue of Playboy Magazine, in a sidebar titled "Songs You Probably Won't Hear on Clear Channel Stations" accompanying an article on the effects of industry consolidation on radio playlists (click for article).

And of course, he's been profiled more than once by local media such as NUVO.

stAllio! has performed live throughout the midwest, including lots of gigs in his home state of Indiana, as well as regular shows across Ohio as well as Illinois, Michigan, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. He's shared bills with such hot underground acts as Girl Talk, Doormouse, the Evolution Control Committee, Xanopticon, Infinite Number of Sounds, Asobi Sexsu, Realicide, Rotten Piece, and the Reverend Ivan Stang (of the Church of Subgenius), not to mention gigs with other central Indiana favorites like Il Troubadore, Everything, Now!, Melk the G6-49, Dr. Butcher M.D., and Bobby Vomit.

stAllio! produced the opening theme music and bumps for the radio show The Free Zone on WICR (Indianapolis).

stAllio! has performed live on WCBN, (Ann Arbor, with Animals Within Animals), WRUW, (Cleveland, with Press the Button), and WMTS, (Murfreesboro, with Workeshoppe Radio Phonik). He was also featured and appeared in-studio on KPFA's No Other Radio program (Berkeley) in 2003.

In addition to other plays on those stations and numerous spins on Internet radio, his music (either solo or with Animals Within Animals) has been played on WFMU, (New Jersey), WAIF, (Cincinnati), CITR and CFUV in Canada, 2MBS in Australia, and repeatedly on syndicated radio shows such Some Assembly Required and the Subgenius radio show Hour of Slack.