 Throughout Kotche's career with Wilco
("Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", the Grammy award-winning "A Ghost is Born", "The Wilco Book" companion CD, "", "Sky Blue Sky", "Wilco (The Album)", "The Whole Love", "Star Wars", and "Schmilco") and his solo projects, he has treated the drumset as a multiple percussion instrument including home-made instruments, pitched percussion, various found objects such as scrap metal and hubcaps and orchestral instruments.Kotche has also collaborated on several other side projects with members of Wilco and others, including an ongoing band
with Darin Gray called On Fillmore, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, members of the band Nickel Creek, percussionists David Cossin, Tim Barnes and Chris Corsano, and many others.He has appeared on over 70 recordings to date.