1.Outside: The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle

1. Outside was recorded primarily at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1994, with additional sessions at Hit Factory in New York. The album was produced by David Bowie and Brian Eno, marking their first collaboration since the Berlin Trilogy of the late 1970s. Eno brought his trademark oblique strategies and experimental methods to the sessions, including improvisational techniques where musicians were assigned random characters and scenarios to inspire spontaneous performances. The recording featured a core band including guitarist Reeves Gabrels, pianist Mike Garson, bassist Erdal Kızılçay, and drummer Sterling Campbell, with the sessions yielding a vast amount of material that was edited down from reportedly dozens of hours of improvisation. Co-produced with David Richards, who also engineered the album at Mountain Studios, the record was conceived as the first installment of a planned multi-part non-linear narrative exploring art, murder, and millennial anxiety, blending industrial rock, jazz, and ambient electronics in a concept album format released in September 1995.