A number of these earlier recording sessions occurred at Schneider's friend Kyle Jones's house in Denver, Colorado.
Jones referred to the studio as the "Sleeping Brotherhood" while Schneider called it "Pet Sounds".
[1] It is also referred to as The Elephant 6 Recording Co. in the liner notes for albums such as The Apples in Stereo's Hypnotic Suggestion EP.
The studio in the house was decorated with detailed murals painted by Steve Keene, originally for The Apples music video for "Tidal Wave".
Recordings made in this studio include sessions for Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Olivia Tremor Control's Dusk at Cubist Castle and Black Foliage, The Minders' Hooray for Tuesday, The Apples in stereo's Tone Soul Evolution, Her Wallpaper Reverie, The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone and Velocity of Sound, as well as early singles for McIntyre's solo project Von Hemmling and many other albums from the Elephant 6 collective and the 1990s indie scene.