Eventually, though, Troy realized he could design his own gig anywhere and finally chose to put down roots back in the Milwaukee area, near his publisher, to set up his studio and commit his new ideas to disc. His first project in the new studio was his own instrumental CD, Exottica. After that he began producing for other bands. For a long time, a lot of people had been asking me if I had any instrumental CDs out. Well, I had never been really big on instrumental music to be honest.
Vocal music has so much more range and immediacy.
But beginning in mid 90s, a lot of instrumental ideas started happening to me. To pull it off the way I wanted to, I needed to upgrade my studio. I'm glad I did it, though. I got Exottica to sound the way I wanted, and I'm artistically satisfied with it. The spin-off was that I also opened up the studio to produce outside bands at up to major label quality.