[4][5][non-primary source needed] His independent record label AudioDefine Records has released most of his projects as well as that of Dutch pianist Johan Versk[6] Born in Falkirk, Scotland, and based in Queensland, Australia, Cask J. Thomson started performing as a teenager and taught himself guitar, keyboards, drums and how to produce music.
[7] As a result, the album features hiss and audible tape glitches that were left in during mastering by Jeff Cripps in Sydney.
[9] In 2010 Thomson performed as a session guitarist for Sydney band Operator Please and Australian Idol winner Stan Walker during his From the Inside Out promotional tour.
The first single, "Bedridden (Move Forward)", premiered on Reverbnation where he reached 4th in the Independent Charts[10][11] followed by a music video for "The Murder".
[4][5] His UI and logo designs featured on the Linux distribution Ubuntu[23] Thomson is an extraterrestrial research enthusiast who, under his publishing house, reissued Taken and Into the Fringe by Dr. Karla Turner.
[27] Outside of music, Cask has a collection of Saab cars including the "Wasaabi" that was purchased from Australian series Mighty Car Mods[28] Cask is an outspoken privacy advocate and has written a series of articles on his website encouraging people to DeGoogle amidst privacy concerns and personal experience of automated copyright infringement notices triggering his own music accounts.