After paying his proverbial dues during the 80's San Francisco music scene, Don was asked to contribute sounds to a project of a co-worker. This fellow was none other than ambient guru and Silent Records founder Kim Cascone. In fact, Don wrote some stunningly visual liner notes for some of Silent's best ambient releases. In 1995, he started a solo project to develop his own musical works, under the Spaceship Eyes name. Since then, it's received many glowing reviews , worldwide distribution , and has been spun internationally in America, Canada, France, Belgium, U.K., Germany, China, Russia, Mexico and Australia.
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They performed to a capacity crowd of around 175 people. This latter appearance marked the public unveiling of Spaceship Eyes on September 4, 1996. It was an awesome start. That night, Don made an interesting friendship with the DJ, Freaky Chakra of Astralwerks Records. Don was so impressed with Daum's smooth mixing and tastefulness that he asked him to remix a Spaceship Eyes track.