Dan Steven Erickson started tinkering with drum machines, synthesizers, and music programming in the early 1980s. He discovered GarageBand when it had nothing more than a handful of samples and grew with it. At first, he used programming to help produce more traditional songs, but in time, he started experimenting. This led to a longterm love affair with ambient, drone, and noise music, and in 2018 he started working under the moniker, Anderhill.

In time, Dan developed a darker style and decided he needed a second project. A Cult of Lies was born when he composed the album, "He called himself Michael the Archangel but he was born to destroy." The music takes the listener on a dark journey of what is was like to be a child in a cult.

Brian Eno once described Ambient music as "a genre designed to induce calm and space to think, fittingly described as ignorable as it is interesting." Dan takes this definition to heart. Ambient music is as much about place and vision as it is about sound. Ambient, drone, and noise music create landscapes in the mind of the active listener or it simply plays in the background and even lulls the passive listener to sleep.

Using combinations of samples from GarageBand and other digital audio workshops with live samples, Dan composes electronic music that moves and breathes. He has sampled everything from engines to trains to voices and creaking doors. Home appliances are not off limits, nor are toy pianos. He weaves these real sounds of the world with synths and sometimes drums to create the unique Anderhill sound. You can find the full Anderhill archive here.