Amiga Music Preservation -

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

1984, my parents bought a commodore 64... 1987 saw my first demos (from a teenage babysitter!)

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

C-64/C-64C, i mainly played games. didn't really use computers from 1989-1992, then had my first PC, an old 8088
mainly for BBSing. 1993 I got a 486 and sometime around then a friend gave me his old Amiga 500 as well.
On the 486 is when i made all my modules (sbpro and later GUS).

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

I have no artistic talent and though i program some now it didn't "stick" at the time... plus i was a musician
before i really used a computer much (piano).

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

In the old old days (1993) i used KingMod.. it was a "staff and notes" tracker, the only one ever made I think.
It was bad but since i knew sheet music it helped me get into it. I used that until early '94 when ST3 came out.
Then switched to Impulse Tracker for more channels eventually (1996?). Nowadays i use Nuendo.

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

None.. I guess the one bit of pride I do feel is that if i go back and listen to some of those songs made in
1995-1997, no one was doing things in those genres really at the time in tracker music.. things influenced by
Ninja Tune and Coldcut, etc. I think those mods have much more in common with music made today, so I guess maybe
they were a bit forward-thinking. But in general its hard to listen to them because of the 8bit/22khz samples.
Some music sounds good with that quality but not mine! Since I was ripping from CDs and what-not..

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

My first 20 or 25 songs are painfully bad.. and they ended up on the internet somehow! Not sure how since I
didn't release them..

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

In a demo I think it's 50% of the impact of it. In a game it's just wallpaper I think. The reality is most
people don't even listen to game music while playing a game anymore.

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

I haven't done anything for a couple years. I used to do production music (tv/radio) for my job but not
anymore. I still keep up a 'studio' but never get to use it.. sadly..

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

I don't follow netlabels and such.. i do listen to music though of course.

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

sure.. off the top of my head here's the ones that affected me most.. not necessarily my favorite from
these artists, but the ones that 'shaped' my enjoyment of mods.. i don't want to write a book so i won't say
what they mean to me individually but.. they mean a LOT.

audiomonster - nebulos
dizzy - pathway
bit arts - wasteland
greg - odyssey-part2
nhp&bkh - ethnomagic
codex - undersea
delorean - starfields
groo - biomechanoid
heatbeat - annika
dr. awesome - godzilla
jester - my glamorous life
lizardking - varanen
purple motion - darkness
nuke - menumusic.3
radix - sunjammer
SLL - dragon jive
sidewinder - advent
travolta - condom corruption
vinnie - bangin' cindy
c.c.catch - amnesia demo

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

nope..

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

wolf parade, sunset rubdown, tough alliance, joanna newsom, jermaine stewart, yellow magic orchestra,
prefuse 73, gang gang dance, yo la tengo, destroyer

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

my musical inspiration for years..

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

somewhat recently (3-4 years ago) doing some demo tracks but not other than that

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

sorry to all the people i lost touch with.. don't want to greet cuz there'd be too many.. mostly want to say
that i miss the old days because of how exciting it was to be on the forefront of technology as the internet
was becoming a big thing.. we take it all for granted nowadays! but i remember when talking live to someone
in another country about MODs, seemed like a miracle...

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please note: this interview was kindly sent by Basehead in 2009 to Asle.
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