ABOUT

Hey there.

My name is Josh, most of my friends call me Decker.

I'm also known as The Artbreaker, primarily, along with several other aliases that umbrella my creative output to one degree or another. You've stumbled onto my personal website, you lucky bastard.

For some silly reason or another you elected to learn more about my dumb ass by clicking a link, so here goes...

The short of it is that I am a single father, artist, producer, wannabe-DJ, graphic designer, try-hard currator, sentenced graffiti artist, retired music blogger, over oppiniated snob, music aficianado, casual movie and television buff, and general disappoinbtment to most. It's okay, I'm laughing at me with you.

NAME(S):
- Joshua Decker
- Joshua
- Josh
- jawsh!
- Decker
- Dad
- Daddy
- JDecker
- JDeck
- Deck
- DCKR
- D://TATCH
- samurai envelope
- the future mister natsukawa
- Ant
- Ill
- Artbreaker
- The Artbreaker
- Jack Afri
- sho.nuff
- deadpandj

AGE:
- 51 (as of February 12th, 2026)

HEIGHT:
- 6'1"

WEIGHT:
- Have you learned nothing, you never ask a woman about her weight.

ETHNICITY:

FAVORITES:
- FILM: "Donnie Darko"
- DJ: R.A.W.
- PRODUCER: Bogdan Raczynski
- BAND: Pantera or Scaterd Few (that's a tough one...)
- FOOD: Pizza (%>
- PIZZA TOPPING: Pepperoni
- AUTHOR: Tom Robbins
- TV SHOW: "The Office" or "Breaking Bad" (another tough one...)
- CANDY: anything Reeses's
- SNACK: Dill Pickle Giants or any generic Nacho Cheese wannabe Dorito
- CONSOLE: Wii or Xbox1 (yet another hard one, ugh...)
- VIDEOGAME: "Assassin's Creed Odyssey" or "Chakan" or any "Mortal Kombat" title
- CARTOON: "Regular Show"
- PENCIL: Ticonderoga
- HANDSTYLE: Twist
- THROWIE: Rime
- PIECE: anything Ques
- ERASER: Pink Pearl
- PERMANENT MARKER: anything Sharpie (sponsor me, dammit!)
- PAINT MARKER: anything Posca (sponsor me, too, dammit!)
- SPRAYPAINT: Montana brand anything, special regard for MTN94
- FINE LINER: Molotow or Micron (making decisions is hard...)

CERTIFICATIONS:
- Class B CDL W/Passenger & Air Brakes endorsements
- CPR Certified
- Forklift Certified
- FoodSafe Certified
- Fender Certified

AILMENTS:
- Major Depressive Disorder
- ADD
- Generalized Anxiety
- Gout
- Chronic (and as yet, undiagnosed) Back Pain

ELABORATING:
I was a full time single father of two for most of their lives. They're both in their erly 20s these days. That role took up most of my life during that time. However, I never stopped creating. Producing weird electronic music, DJing various internet radio shows, playing live gigs, running a blog, painting, drawing, writing, you name it. And I did those same things even more before being a dad, and have picked up the pace in those realms again since my kids have grown up and moved out. I've always been an artist, a creator, a currator, a fan.

The story goes that I drew my first human before the age of three, with the correct number of appendages and digits and facial features in the right quantity and placement. I recall very very very few days in my life as far back as I can remember that didn't include me at least doodling a lil somethin' somethin' - if not losing hella sleep working on full fledged pieces. Most of my evenings are filled with drawing and painting, making stickers, working on graphic design, something visual if I'm not actively engaged in making or playing music.

I've created logos and artwork as album covers, flyers, and merch designs for 100s of bands - and then DJs and small businesses and everything in between - beginning in 1991. I published a book of collected logo works and have done artwork for people on nearly every continent covering genres from rave and club design to extreme metal band logos and merch designs to professional logo design for lawyers. During that time I created and released multiple lines of merchandise with my artwork and designs, as well as sold original works to art collectors, friends, and appreciators. The Bubblyskull came to be at some point around 2000 and has become something of a cult classic iconographic character.

Art and music go hand in hand, in my mind. As such, I've been neck deep in music as long as I can recall. As a youngster I was just a diehard fan that went to shows and dug for the best and newest stuff to blow my friends' minds with. I was tuned into KMOJ, KDWB, WLOL, REV105, and so many other radio stations from that time, all at once. I was recording songs as they aired and doing little dub/mix edits on cassette. I tried out for a couple bands, always wanting to be a vocalist and frontman, but could never really get over my nerves to do it in earnest. Upon discovering jungle music in the mid 90s and being a kid of the internet at the same time, it didn't take me long to try some software out and attempt making my own music. I did just that and, as chaotic as life can be, I managed to start my jungle production career, if you can call it that. Initially, I was just making silly stuff that I imagined in my mind so that I could actually hear it. Nothing groundbreaking - or even ejoyable to anyone but me sometimes, I eventually started making tunes in earnest and caught the attention of the late General Malice.

I got a few vinyl records released and pressed on the N2O Records sublabel Good Fortune Sound. After that, a few other vinyl releases over the years with consistent output on a wide variety of CD, cassette, and digital labels/collectives. I ran a couple fairly popular and respected netlabels in the undeerground music communities of ambient/noise and dub/jungle/breakcore - TheDarkTapes and Bluldclot Recordings, accordingly. I, with a few friends, released our own vinyl record on the Grindthieves, Limited label name. I self-released a ton of music on my own time and dime from day one, as well. Burning CDs and dubbing tapes, releasing digital files online, always trying to do something creative and original with the packaging or promotion or release, as a whole.

For about a decade, somewhere in the mix of everything else, from the early 00s to the early 10s, I ran a successful music blog known as Grindthieves.com. Grindthieves, International would be the moniker for many things I did in relation to the blog over the years. From event production and promotion, to music reviews, to music releases, to artist and label head interviews, to graphic design, and beyond. It was around the time I began the Grindthieves journey that I settled on the name The Artbreaker. I've had international radio play, performed as direct support to R.A.W., Bogdan Razcynski, Fanu, DJ 3D and many more. My tunes have been played by the likes of LDouble from Flex Records fame to General Malice and Audio1 and R.A.W. to friends and fellow breakbeat enthusiasts at live events and on stream and in promotional DJ mixes, and have continued to be played today. I've also worked with, released, interviewed, and otherwise promoted many artists across the music and visual artist spectrum that have since gone on to see a considerable amount of fame and praise since.

Professionally, I've spent most of my employment in kitchens to one degree or another. Dishboy to head cook and everything in between, from fast food to fine dining. Food and costumer facing surface work is real work, some of the most demanding and taxing work one can do. Tip your server and stack like with like. Maybe brush your crumbs from the table, too. I also worked in the funeral industry for a period of time, burying John Doe's and decorated Veterans alike. In 100°f and -25f° alike and in between, I buried close to 5000 people during my time in that industry - and I would still be doing that work, had I not fallen nearly 7 feet into a concrete burial vault landing flat on my back and setting off the chronic - and still undiagnosed - back pain I suffer through to this day. I've done on demand delivery in large trucks and transported your dumb ass on the bus around the city of Minneapolis and beyond. I've delivered pizzas and cleaned up dog poop. I have made burgers on a budget and overpriced steaks. I've painted walls and taken out the trash. I've held the dying as they died and held the living as they first lived. I've done a little bit of everything and credit the sordid and varied work history I have had to being important in who I have become.

I continue to produce weird breakbeat-centric electronic music, handcraft stickers for the streets, tag your local road signs and electrical boxes, make as many Bubblyskulls as I can, do DJ streams on Twitch, rant about music and art and film and literature at any moment I'm afforded the opportunity, watch a fair amount of films (and currently getting back into watching serialized television from over the years, with special focus on sitcoms and animation), make myself as available for my adult children as they need (or ask for, at least), try to show up for my homies as best I can, look after my mental health to varying degrees, and am presently really invested in creating various types of refrigerator pickles as well as the comic Ultimate Batman.

I stream on Twitch frequently - if irregularily, have a website, and recently set up a personal Discord server for anyone who likes to vomit forth various words and images on the internet. I post things on various other platforms but would never consider myself active elsewhere online. No I don't have Facebook or X or Threads or Bluesky or Instagram (although, that's actually false because I have Insta for Bubblyskulls). Social media is the worst, get off that shit and build your own little corner and invite people to visit.

I'm writing a book, because of course I am.