From 2004 - 2006, Leland produced and mixed nearly all of the tracks for Drink to Bones That Turn to Dust: a Toast to Oingo Boingo, which was released by Dep't of Records, an independent record label that Leland co-founded with Matt Robesh, and eventually merged with Mars Sound, a production-for-hire company that Leland co-founded with Skot Gilbert and former Sunflower Sutra bandmate Jeff Zipfel.

Most notably among the artists appearing on the album was Brett Dennen, whose cover of Danny Elfman's Private Life was simply sublime, and was recorded remotely by Leland and Skot in a spare bedroom in a house.

Visit Dep't of Records for more information on the album.

Prior to joining Woodrush, Leland worked with them on several recordings, including a new version of I'll Be Home for Christmas, at the request of the producers of the Christmas in the Northwest series of albums. The track didn't make the final cut of the album, so Woodrush began sending it out each year to its email list. Leland also produced and animated the Flash animated video.

When Leland's former band Sunflower Sutra recorded its EP, Leland produced and mixed the album, and created the Graphic Design from a concept by bandmate Hannah Rames.

Seattle's own purveyors of improvisational Funk-Soul-Jazz, Marmalade, released their first live album Volume One in 2004. The album was Produced and Engineered by Leland. Leland and his co-engineer, Skot Gilbert, recorded a three-hour performance, Live at Seattle's ToST nightclub. Leland then whittled the improvised performance down to a single hour of uninterrupted music. The artificial transitions he created from the band's performance were so seamless, that the band itself was unable to identify some of them.

A link to music samples will be provided once available.

Apple Jam -- an offshoot of a Seattle Beatles' cover band that only plays the music of the Beatles' members' post-Beatles careers -- played a special show with Alan White, the drummer from Yes and John Lennon's solo albums. Leland engineered the live on-site recording of the show. It has not been made publicly available.

Although never released, Leland recorded and produced a live recording of the Asylum Street Spankers from Austin, Tx on Halloween, 2004. Perhaps it will become available someday.

Leland bought his first 4-track recorder when he was 15 years old. He began learning the unusual techniques required to get decent recordings at a very early age, and studied the notes of The Beatles' Abbey Road Sessions to help him develop unique ways to build songs with far more than four instruments.

His Senior Year of High School, Leland's US Government teacher let him submit a 30-minute album in lieu of a written final term paper.

Leland has no idea whatever happened to that old cassette tape, and is probably thankful for that