Josh McVety is a goth king who makes music under the name Mellow Code. Josh discusses his origins as a doomed child born to a family of absolute anime sickos, shares how to become an electronic music sicko, tells a wild Cog Talk story about building music video sets for an insane man made of cocaine, and more. Check it out!
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