Gauge drummer Ryan Rapsys then formed Heroic Doses with 5ive Style's Bill Dolan and played in Tim Kinsella's Joan Of Arc.

Euphone was born as Ryan Rapsys' solo project with a few singles on Hefty and the album Euphone (Hefty, 1996), a collection of moody instrumentals entirely arranged and played by Rapsys himself. His fluid jazz-accented progressive-rock with a touch of Tortoise's post-rock excels at softly noir and often hypnotic lounge tempos (Wickedness).

The seven-song EP Breaking Parole (Hefty, 1998) seem to reveal Rapsys' true intentions: not avantgarde instrumental rock but merely easy listening for intellectuals. Funk propulsion erupts from I Did Not Say Maybe Not and Little Warbles, but Euphone's specialty remains the laid-back ambient/lounge vibes of New Dusk Policy.

Rapsys also played in Slicker's Confidence In Duber (Hefty, 1998).

Adding Heroic Doses bassist Nick Macri, Rapsys recorded The Calendar of Unlucky Days (Jade Tree, 1999), an album deeply imbued with jazz and reggae, a collection of improvised, instrumental jams that mix electronics, acoustic instruments and syncopated beats and run the gamut from free-jazz (Broken Gourd) to dub (Needle and Crate), from Kraftwerk's futurism (Cindy You Hate To Eat) to Brian Eno's impressionism (Wickedness).

The tentative experiments of the previous albums laid the foundations for Hashin' It Out (Jade Tree, 2001), an eclectic work that makes the most of Lonesome Organist's guitarist Jeremy Jacobsen. Press On and Bad Ascending prove that Rapsys and Macri would be a superb rhythm section to a creative guitarist. Without his guitar leads, the duo is still looking for a reason to exist. The dreamy, trip-hoppish opener Gyrations and Nick is Ryan are intriguing, but most of the album still sinks in the swamps of what is essentially muzak for intellectuals.

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