Amiga Music Preservation -

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

When i was 9 years old in 1982 i had my first Vidéo-game working on TV you
know the traditional "Ping-Pong".

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

Before my First Amiga, I had an Atari 1040 STF on wich one i usually Played
Games Such as Bubble Bobble, Ikari Warriors, 1943 etc...and i was fond of
the St-Demos from The TCB, The Lost-Boys, Hemoroids....etc... i discovered
the Only One (sorry Robb Hubbard, David Whittacker...^^) St-Musician:
Jochen Hippel (well known as Mad-Max) who composed Wonderful tunes for
several games and demos of the Atari St Scene. The firts time i heard those
few tunes i fall in love with the so Exceptionnal-Electronical Chip-Sound
of His Chords (Listen to the Main-Menu Tune from the Cuddly-Demo if you want
to see what i mean).....

Special thanx to my friend XZed for Having find it on few Sweden Hubsssszzzz).
This Year 1989 i Fall in Love with electronical-Sounds and i decided to learn
how to Track.....And i Had my First Amiga, with Protracker and making music
started for me...

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

B-coz i Played music since i was 11 (piano). Music is my way of Life !!!
Gfx and coding ?? Never tryed.

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

I have Been Using Protracker on the Amiga, and Now........a Lot of different
softs on PC. (Hey Lu !)

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

Not Any ...but my Prefered is "Ballade Pour BA"....

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

The One i Present at The Saturne-Party in Chelles (France) 1992. I gave the
Wrong version to the board of examiners ! Unachieved version !!!! LOL

PS: If someone have all the Scanned-Photos of This Party, please send me !!!
THANX !!

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

Game and Demo Is Art ! How do you Imagine making Artistical Demos without
including Sounds ??? Cool 3D-routines with so beautiful Gfx is good for eyes!!!
But for your Ears ????? Music Is The Answer...
Music is the only FooD For Ears... Essential...

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

Yes i am Still composing for Leisure Purposes and I've done few Jingles for
Discos and FM-Radio. But now it's only Techno, Trance-Tunes on the World best
PC-Trekker Renoise, and in Midi too, with Cubase SX 2, Sonar XL 2, WaveLab
for editing and processing Samples, Rebirth 2 for emulating the Roland TB303,
Reason for Emulating all the rest....(Thx XZed^^)

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

Mpeg s is a very usefull encodin' System for Swapping pieces of tunes on the
Net. The sound is Cool indead...

Wav is the base of all for me...Midi too, for driving my Yamaha CS1X !!!

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

I ve got so many examples...:

On ST : all Mad-Max's tunes,

On Amiga : Elysium from Jester, Pelforth Blues, Knulla Kuk ...etc ..from Moby
and a lot from my Friend Cyril (Chrylian From The DreamDealers,
"if you read me Cyril, call me when you'll return in the 79
district !!")

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

Yes i'd like to remaster some of my Amiga-tunes but i've got few Music
projects to achieve with friends before. I'll Send it to you Crown when
it'll be finished ;-)

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Röyksopp, Brian Eno, Kevin Yost, Blue Six, Claude Challe, David Visan etc...
for Relaxing and Unknown Source, Push, Lange, Armin Van Buuren, Carl Cox...
for Punching !!

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

It gave me the opportunity to meet several Groups and Persons who became real
friends later.

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

No but if i had more time to dedicate to my hobbies, why not integrating a
PC Demo-Team ??!!??

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

Yes a very Big Greet to my Friend XZed (EDM !^^! Vive Pulsar !!, vive la Suède!!
avec ses connec' qui te font pleurer ^^) , all my friends from the Amiga-scene
such as Le Seigneur, Chrylian, STC, BigM, Moby, Gérald from the Atari
St/Falcon-Scene, the present reader, and you of course Crown (Cool and Nice
Web-site, Very Good Idea).

Waiting For the Amiga-scene rebirth...

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