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This MachineThis Machine
Remix EP - April 2008

1. This Machine (Bad Robot Radio Edit)
2. This Machine (Bad Robot Club Mix)
3. This Machine (Yahzy's Retro Electro Radio Edit)
4. This Machine (Yahzy's Retro Electro Club Mix)
5. Subtraction
6. This Machine
7. This Machine (Yahzy's Last Call Remix)

Buy online at iTunes or AmazonMP3.

Fire Behind MeFire Behind Me
Album - May 2007

1. This Machine
2. Walk In
3. Take Me Away
4. Everyone Wants to Feel Something
5. Never Loved Me
6. Take a Hint
7. Chance on Me
8. Totally Gone
9. Can I Do This Alone
10. Cold (All That I Know)
11. The Wrong Truth
12. Take Me Away (Remix)

Click songs for MP3 samples.

Buy online for only $10 or by on iTunes or AmazonMP3.

Everyone Wants to Feel SomethingEveryone Wants to Feel Something
EP - October 2006

1. Everyone Wants to Feel Something
2. Take Me Away
3. Can I Do This Alone
4. Totally Gone
5. Everyone Wants to Feel Something (Extended Mix)

This EP contains demo versions of songs later re-recorded for the full album "Fire Behind Me." Click songs for MP3 samples.

Buy online for $5 (nearly sold out) or buy on iTunes.

Timeline

Fall 2001 - Michael begins writing songs while at Emerson College and performs his first live show. The song "Cold (All That I Know)" is written.

Summer 2003 - A club in Portland, Maine begins spinning an early version of "Everyone Wants to Feel Something."

Fall 2003 - Michael releases a mostly instrumental album, titled "Feel Something," through mp3.com. It includes early versions of four songs that are later developed for "Fire Behind Me."

October 2006 - The "Everyone Wants to Feel Something" EP is released and Michael begins promoting his music. The EP gets press in Boston and is played in three New York City clubs.

March 2007 - Michael performs his first live show in over five years at the Milky Way in Boston.

May 2007 - The "Fire Behind Me" album is released, featuring mixing and mastering by award-winning musician Yasuhiko Fukuoka.

All songs written, produced, and performed by Michael Hensley Histen. "Fire Behind Me" mixed and mastered by Yasuhiko Fukuoka.