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1-How did your interest for computers start? Which year was that?

When I was about 4 or 5 my family had a BBC Micro with lots of ace games like
Exile, Elite, Castle Quest, Imogen...

2-What machines did you previously have? What did you do with them?

BBC Micro, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, Atari STe. Only did games until I got my
Amigas, when I found Octamed 5. I also did some silly animation on Deluxe
Paint 4.

3-For what specific reason did you end up making music rather than gfx, coding?

Musical family with one parent Beatles-obsessed, Piano lessons from age opf 6,
musical elder brothers, being rubbish at coding and having a poor conception of
mathematics or the required patience.

4-Which composing programs have you been using? Which one in particular?

On the Amiga A1200 - various sampling progs, mainly stereo master, then mainly
Octamed 5 on the A1200, but could only get a maxium of 4 tracks of simultaneous
samples. Then got a basic GM midi module, midi keyboard and used cubase on the
STe.

More recently I've been using Mod Plug Tracker on my now-useless P200 Mhz
PC. I'm about to get a new PC so I'll probably be using some decent real-time
recording programs.

5-With which module did you feel you had reached your goal?

Hard to say. Each track refers to a different 'goal'; it's often impossible to
define what that goal is anyway, that's why I make music. I'm most pleased with
a track I did called 'Grendal' on Mod Plug Tracker.

6-Is there a tune you would like not to remember? For what reason?

Only the ones I thought were good then accidentally erased / the computer
crashed and fucked them up totally. That pissed me off endlessly.

7-In your opinion, what's the value of a music in a demo, game?

To instill an all-pervading sense of dread / psychosis / hatred / love in the
listener. Atmosphere. It certainly isn't to show off, as is often the case in
demos. In fact, that's generally all demos are really for. I'm more interested
in the programming ingenuity of demos than the accompanying music anyway.

8-At present, are you still composing? For professional or leisure purposes?

Not much until I can get a new computer and get over a mental block / fear. As
a result I've been playing drums in 2 bands....

9-What do you think of today's pieces of music such as mpeg,wave,midi,etc...?

I love lots of music and am rendered bored-shitless by lots of others. See
below. Most mods I've found on the internet are devoid of emotion and/or suck
anyway. The only good ones I've found are those that are really, really nasty.
Mod Plug Central generally has piss-poor mods, but that's because most people
listen to terrible music anyway!

10-Could you tell us some of your all times favourite tunes?

Turrican 2 remix - Tammo Hendricks (spelling?)
Loads of cool amiga coverdisk mods...
Bands:
Weezer - Tired of Sex
Slint - Good Morning Captain
Pixies - Where is my mind?
This heat - A new kind of water, cenotaph, paper hats
Sonic Youth - chapel hill, cross the breeze,
the third eye foundation - semtex LP
fugazi - 5 corporations, lots of others...
shipping news - the march song
my bloody valentine - lose my breath
third eye foundation - semtex LP

can't remember most of the other 5 million bands i love....

11-Are you planning to make an audio cd with some of your music remastered?

At some point. It means transferring lots of tracks from Amiga to PC which is
a pain in arse.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

mr bungle, sonic youth, helmet, guided by voices, shannon wright, shipping
news, dinosaur jr, lots of very noisy drone bands, can, lots of kraut-rock,
lots of bristol bands : sj esau, ivory springer, war against sleep, gravenhurst,
others.....

13-What does/did the amiga/c64 scene give you?

I was never involved in a scene, I didn't know anyone else who wrote on Amiga
and I didn't have internet access then.... However, the software and mods around
back then gave me my first lessons in composing music.

14-Are you still active in the scene these days?

Maybe soon.

15-Anyone to greet? Anything left to say? Feel free...

:?)

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