Mark Oliver Everett: Founder of the band Eels, after a short solo career producing the pop albums A Man Called (E) and Broken Toy Shop. Plays guitar and wurlitzer, and contributed vocals for 1996's Beautiful freak, and on 1998's Electro-shock blues is responsible for "singing, guitar, bass, keyboards, etc." (taken from liner notes).

"(e)" also happens to be the handle of one of the litestep dev team members.