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

If I remember correctly, it was around 1985, when I got my first c64. Of
course my main interest were videogames then.

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

I've been playng around with 2 c64 (old and new model), Amiga 500, Amiga
2000, a laptop intel 386 Toshiba T1800, a 486, a Pentium 133 and now a
Pentium3 450.

I've been playng around with cracktros and crap code since the c64 times,
but I started tracking mods on the Amiga500 with protracker 2.3 (or even
older...). Now, apart from job stuph, I use my machines just for tracking
and watching demos.

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

It was the only field where I could come up with something decent without
huge efforts.

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

Mostly demoscene like trackers, expecially Protracker 2.3 and Fasttracker 2.
I've been experimenting with other software like Octamed, Impulse Tracker,
ModPlug tracker, Noisetrekker 2 and 3, Mad tracker and some others, without
any brilliant result.

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

I still don't feel like that, expecially when I listen to my tunes after 6
months or something. Nevertheless, I like my "Oxygene free" tune a lot, and
"the fastest lane" also.

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

Some experiments in the old times are luckily disappered from the net, but
some quasi-metal tunes I did around 94 are still around and quite ugly.

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

Music plays a huge part in demos, and in some videogames also. Demos imply
music by definition, while videogames use it for atmospherical reasons
(still, you might not need it in a beat'em up game...).

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

Yeah, I consider myself quite active, and _always_ for leisure. I also play
bass guitar in two "real life" bands (rock and dark-gothic).

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

Still music, but I don't really feel like using those formats, neither to
compare them to tracked formats such as XM or MOD.

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

It might sound strange, but I rarely download and listen to scene music
(for some odd reason). I've always been liking tunes from !Cube/Trauma
(almost all of them) and Jogeir Liljedahl (expecially those featured in
the Ambrozia musci disc from Pulse), and I have a special addiction to
tunes made by Neurotix/parenthesis (expecially stuff from 98 and 99) and
Nabo/Deathstar.

A tune for all? "See the Storm" by Nabo.

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

Not remastered maybe, just too keep the rough XM feeling. I might come up
with an hi-fi CD together with the other mfx musicians at some point in
2002 summer.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

I'm out to have some problem now... let's look what's in the cd player:
Herbie Hancock, Covenant, Kraftwerk, Autechre, Savatage, Death, Cradle of
Filth. Weird association, indeed :D

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

The kickstart. The underground feeling was the spring that made me start.
You know, BBS and trading, doing something different from playing games,
using your machine in a completely different direction. Something that
doesn't happen nowadays, it's full of newbies composing with their multimedia
out there...

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

I guess so.

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

I greet everyone who decided to collect this kind of interviews, I want to
see the final result!

Some oldschool greets also fly to: my groups (of course), the Slengpung
staff, suomiskene and all those who mailed me for feedbacks about my tunes.

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