If you followed Costa Colorado for the music, this is me walking back in after a long quiet. And if you’ve just found the name through something to do with AI: same welcome, you’re not in the wrong place. The story only makes sense told in one piece, so here it is, both halves.
I’m not going to do the performative apology for going dark — that’s not what this is. It’s a reintroduction: what the name was, where it went, and what it actually means now that it’s back and pointed at something new.
01The name was a sound first
Costa Colorado is my alter ego. The name comes from my DJ days. Before any of the AI work, it lived in record bags and on flyers. I produced, I played, I built something real out of it — a crowd, a sound, a reason to stay up until four in the morning chasing one transition until it sat exactly right. That wasn’t a phase or a side quest. For a long stretch it was the whole identity. And almost everything I lean on now started there: arrangement, timing, texture, the instinct for exactly when to drop. You don’t lose that craft. It just goes looking for a new place to live.
02Then I went quiet — and went building
And then it got too heavy to carry, and I stepped back. No farewell post, no big exit — I just went quiet on the one channel everyone knew me through. What almost nobody saw is that the whole time, a second life had been running underneath: the nerd work. Code. Systems. Building things that actually held together. While the music name went dark, that was the part keeping the lights on, year after year, off to the side where the fanbase never saw it.
I didn’t lose the drive when I burned out. I lost the format it came in — and it took years, and a new kind of tool, to find the next one.— on the quiet years
So this isn’t a comeback in the old sense. I’m not dusting off the decks and pretending the last stretch didn’t happen. The thing that went quiet and the thing that kept building turned out to be the same person all along — and they’ve finally found a way to work as one.
03What turned the lights back on
What pulled me back wasn’t nostalgia. It was AI — and not as a gimmick. For the first time, the nerd work and the creative instinct stopped being two separate lives. I could sit at one desk and direct code, image, sound and motion the way I used to arrange a track: as one thing, under one set of hands. That’s what got me properly excited again — the first real spark in years.
So here’s Costa Colorado now: AI-native creative technology. I build systems that orchestrate whole fleets of AI agents — I’m building one of my own — and I produce audiovisual work, image and sound and motion, as a single connected craft. Same name, same hands, completely new frequency. The DJ became the person who builds the studio.
And the music didn’t stay in the past tense. I never fully stopped — there are new originals from these last years I’m genuinely proud of — and now the two halves finally feed each other. The podcast is coming back too, woven through with new music as I keep producing — on its own unhurried schedule, now and then rather than on a treadmill. And then there’s Video Killed The Radio, my hobby project: video clips generated end to end — image, motion and the music alike, each one built in whatever style it asks for. After years of squeezing through one narrow channel, the honest goal is simpler than any strategy: let the creative side all the way out, make things that genuinely excite me, and stop choosing between them — code, sound, image, motion, all at once.
If you stuck around from the music days: thank you, genuinely. If you just got here through the AI work: welcome. Same name as before. I’m sharper than ever and finally doing the one thing I was always trying to do: make things you can see, hear and feel, all at once.