Outersect is Rob Rayle, a San Francisco Bay Area based composer and producer of genre-bending psychedelic electronic music that synergizes psychill, techno-bluegrass, and 70s progressive rock styles. Inspired by sights and sounds from around the world, Outersect fuses acoustic instruments with digital production to emerge with his own unique sonic experience. His music inspires ecstasy on the dance floor and auditory bliss.

Outersect began training as a classical pianist at age 10 before graduating to synthesizers at age 16. He spent years composing and performing in rock bands before the Burning Man festival altered his musical direction to electronic music. Outersect’s live productions, performances, DJ sets, and his collaborations with other local artists and collectives have created memorable musical events across the West Coast, USA. Outersect spends many happy hours playing with his wide collection of sound equipment in his converted garage studio where artists including Perry Farrell, Bassnectar, An-ten-nae, and Goa Gil have mastered tracks and CDs. He began putting his studio together in the mid-1980s and is now well stocked with unusual pieces of specialty equipment ranging from high end digital gear to vintage analog synthesizers. Outersect is a master of the Serge Modular, a rare and extremely powerful analog synthesizer, and of the Kyma system. Outersect has written his own special software for emulating the behavior of acoustic instuments on Kyma. In addition to synthesizers and keyboards, Outersect also plays the guitar, drums, shakuhachi, and many other instruments.. When he’s not making music, performing or producing events, Outersect can be found walking his dog at the local off-leash dog park, practicing soto-zen meditation, pumping iron, or making a yummy latte (extra hot!) at home. Outersect is an animal lover who once had 20 pets under one roof including a rescued lemur. He still proudly rocks tie-dye like it’s 1969.

Discography (partial)

as "Outersect"
God Love the Fool, Beats and Pieces, April 2010
Kali-Ma :: Natural Born Chillers II :: Aleph-Zero Records Oct 2009
Caldera, Heart's Eye Records Aug 2007

as "Caldera"
Seismic Weasel (Trance Mix) (Get the Lead Out - Psy-Booty, SF)

as "Bufo"
Pa’s Old Fashioned Moonshine (Get the Lead Out - Psy-Booty, SF)
Likkety Split (Language of Light II – Ceiba, SF)
Falling off the Lily (Language of Light II – Ceiba, SF)
Voices in my Head (Miditation – Ceiba, SF)
First Light (Language of Light III – Ceiba, SF)
Time Bend (Edges are Fun – Edgecore, Australia)
Kulture Clash (The Devil is a DJ – Hadshot, Germany)
Smokin’ Feet (American Rotation –Spectral Concepts, SF)