In 1995 he moved to San Diego, where he got into the yoga business while maintaining his ties to Chicago via a long-running residency at Smartbar that began in 1998. Meanwhile, he traveled internationally as a house DJ and, beginning in the late '90s, released production work on various labels. Maeda's output began to peak in 2004, when he released a pair of DJ mixes on Igloo Music (The New House Sound of Chicago and A la Peanut Budder Sandwiches, the latter a downtempo mix originally released in the early '90s) and a series of 12" EPs (Crafty Work, Robsoul Recordings; The Concrete Pop, Anonymous Recordings; Things Are Things, Aroma). His production output remained prolific in subsequent years, including 12" EP releases on Kolour Recordings, Odds Ends Music, Red Brunette, .dotbleep, LowDown Music, Dust Traxx, Bambino Recordings, Gimme Some Records, Dae Recordings, Lust4House, Outergaze, Primal Records, Bump Music, and Bopsa Music, among other labels. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi