Tangent Strategy has been around in some form or another since 1996. At first, it was just a name with no particular significance which was used to personify the musical expressions of chd.y who, with the assistance of Shawn S., created an experimental improvisational cassette with various instruments as the first home recordings of the project.

Later on and by himself, he continued experimenting with guitars and simple keyboards until 2000, when he began to use modtracking software for the first time and wrote “Dance of the Marionette,” a breakthrough song in his compositions up to that point, which inspired him to compose dozens of songs on tracker. A serious upgrade in tools came in 2003 when professional software was acquired and he began writing even more music, and even sent some demos out at this time. In 2005, he played his first live show which he was only slightly prepared to do but learned a lot from the experience. Unfortunately, in 2008, as he was making a technology change, the master files for hundreds of songs were lost in a hard drive crash, leaving behind only mp3 recordings of the songs. This did not stop him, as he recovered what he could and began to write more, mainly under the radar and in private. In 2013, he experienced a major life change by moving from the United States to Japan, and in 2021, he was signed to the EK Product label and released his first official album, REVENANT. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.