Before “Collision 28″ there was “Twisted Productions” which actually started as Twisted Records around the time Napster was shut down as peer to peer service. Anthony aka ajTwist (named after his foot) was sellin’ Burned CDs in High school and needed a ‘company’ name. Thus, Twisted Records was born. The burned CD business died after about 4 months.

Twist then started to experiment with video editing. The First ever video was made in 2000. It was a school project titled “Surrender”. It was a 5 minute film about General Lee surrendering to Grant ending the Civil War. That project inspired ajTwist to video edit as a hobby. A year later, “Nick and Anthony” started filming themselves scootering and made a 30 minute Trick Video titled “Nick and Anthony’s ProScooter”. This video featured several music videos of them on scooters doing tricks jumping stairs and doing almost anthing else they could think of. It also featured a few 2 minute skits in between music videos.

In 2001, ajTwist was making instrumentals with an 8 track program called Hip Hop E-Jay that had pre-made beats and sounds. Then ajTwist recorded his first song, Cream Soda with lyrics he had written in a few minutes. That was just for fun, then in 2002 “Bush” was born. A song with one word and a beatboxed beat.

Nick and Anthony then went further with more projects, mostly movies such as “ProTekken”, “Dude, Where’s My Scooter” and “The Movie”. They also worked on their first album called “Self Titled Album”.

ajTwist then started experimenting again with video editing, this time using video games. So he made a few video game music videos with Super Smash Bros. Melee. Tahir aka T also introduced ajTwist to Anime. Eventually he started making AMVs after downloading a few off the internet.

ajTwist eventually started to branch off on his own when he ditched the old double VCR’s for a new way of editing videos. The computer. He did redo a lot of old stuff and did do some Nick and Anthony videos on the computer before, but never was he able to upload from VCR or burn onto DVD, until now. In 2004 ajTwist decided to evolve his “Twisted Records” into “Twisted Production” since he did more than just music. Then he went on to making more AMVs and video projects for school that became instant classics for everyone. “Freak Away” was one of the first non-AMVs to be a hit. Many others video productions came after. Then YouTube was born and ajTwist went and uploaded all the worthy AMVs he and T had made.

As time passed and ideas were thought, one finally fell through. Unfocused was born on April 17th, 2008. Shortly after, ajTwist and T thought it was time for a new production name. They got together and wrote down a bunch of favorite and interesting words that might be in the new name. Then they took turns crossing off words that probably wouldn’t be a good idea eventually getting down to the new name Collision28.

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