Joe Magistro is the man behind the ensamble sounding Prophet Omega. Joe says he put down all these sounds himself and his effort will be released by Astralwerks (Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers) in a couple weeks.

"It's definitely a one-guy-with-no-life-holed-up-in-his-home-studio record," Magistro says of The Natural World. "I really locked myself away and went into my own little world. I was doing everything myself—writing, playing, recording, setting up the mikes, putting beats down. I had my computer, keyboards, bells, melodica and various different doodads in one room, and my guitar amps in my bedroom. I could roll out of bed whenever I wanted, and I could track guitars at midnight and there was no one to complain about the noise."

How does he produce the myriad sounds?

"All the beats are programmed, and there are three or four keyboard-sounding moments that are actually chopped-up audio," he explains. "But everything else is played on real instruments; all the guitars and amps were real guitars and real amps. The one area where I really used technology was that I used the computer for editing, which meant that I could sketch out an idea for a song with a rough beat and an acoustic guitar, and then cut and paste the track over that."

Joe sent over two tracks for you to check out: The Right Thing.mp3 and Get By.mp3.