Oliver and Marius met in 2024 through a mutual friend when Marius, studying sound design, asked for an internship at Oliver’s studio in Mallorca. After an early visit with his partner and their enormous dog Bruno, they immediately clicked. Marius was far from a typical intern. He had owned a restaurant, a bakery, a gin brand, and released music as Tristan Reverbe. Sound design was simply another branch of his artistic life.

They worked together in the garden studio, and he soon joined the Smokestack Music collective. It became clear he loved building instruments. Oliver shared his idea for an artist driven sample platform, and together they sampled Marius’s guitar and shaped simple pads. Marius began scripting his first Kontakt library, later refined with help from their friend Filipe, which became Cloud Guitar, released first for free.

Alongside this, they recorded an improvised LP called Calm Palms, due in 2026, using guitar, synths, Wurli, loops, and Marius’s tape machine, which also appears in Cloud Guitar. During all this Marius was also renovating a small cabin in Germany, documented on his YouTube channel Woody The Cabin, and already working on new libraries.

Their final night summed up the whole project. They were recording at The Shoe Factory, broke an ADAT connection, started late, and after finishing around 1 am Marius’s car would not start. Oliver had to drive over and jump start it so he could get home and catch the ferry with Bruno the bear dog.