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

My interest in Computer started in the late 80´s. A good friend of mine used to
have a C64 and was also part of a small Demogroup in Remscheid, where i was
also born. Too bad i never had the money at that time to buy one for myself
(they were so expensive in that days ... :)), so i spent nearly every day after
school at his place playing cool games and also watching some demos etc.

Then in Summer 1989 he got an A500, the first one i saw. I was so impressed
about the graphix, the sound and the possibilities, so i decided to get some
money to buy one for myself, too! At the end of the Year i was a proud
owner of my first A500 :)

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

well, that A500, after it nearly broke down in 1994 another one (which i
sold later), and in 1996 i bought my first (shame on me :)) PC, mainly for
making music with it. Nowadays i own an A500 again, a A1200 with a lot of
extensions from my old Groupmate Booster (Turbocard, Harddrive, CD-Rom etc.)
and my PC (no technical info-shit about this :))

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

Well, on Amiga i also tried working with DPaint, but i wasn´t that good. Coding
was a bit too boring for me, and when i got my first soundtracker, it was
amazing to work with the possibilities, it made so much fun, even i anyway
always was a big fan of music, too. I also liked the music i´ve known from
various Games and Demos and i very much liked the way of experimentating with
these sounds to create my own songs. Lateron i bought a Golem-Soundmachine
Sampler to make some of my own samples, too.

But nowadays i´m not only in music, i´m also working with some GFX-based
Programs (like Flash, Photoshop, Freehand and some others).

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

at first i got and used Soundtracker from the great K.Obarski, lateron i got a
version of noisetracker, after that the much better one Protracker. On PC i
used to track with Fasttracker, and nowadays i´m using mainly Reason for
creating sounds.

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

well ... i don´t think i reached a goal with one of my modules to be honest :)
I was more a fun-thing for me. There are a few i still like, even most of them
are unfinished.

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

well, probably ... but you don´t know those ones anyway ;)

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

It´s very important! Most of the Games would be 50% less cool without their
great atmospheric tunes in it (remember "Shadow of the Beast", "Lost Patrol"
"Lotus E.T.C." "Turrican" etc. for example), the same to demos! Not many of
the Demos i know could live without their Music in it. Would be really boring.

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

I´ve never been that productive in composing songs, mostly a time and mood
thing. but i´m still trying to compose some music. Phonk (ex-Doc Holiday) and
i´m also working together as "Yakitorih", small results to be found at our
page :)

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

mp3 and ogg are very great! it´s amazing how good the quality and how small
the files are. very good for music exchange, nowadays you can reach so much
people with your music, which was impossible a few years ago if you wanted that
in a really good bitquality. and there´s a big netaudio-scene, where you can
find great into-mp3/ogg-converted musics from all over our big planet.
really amazing ...

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

Hm, i like alot of mods, really too much to list all of them. My favourite
Composers on Amiga were definitely Romeo Knight, Fleshbrain, Twilight &
Doc Holiday, Dr.Awesome, Jayce, Jester, S.L.L., Audiomonster, Moby, Archon,
Bit Arts, Diablo, David Whittaker, Chris Hülsbeck and DJ Disco Leif (!), to
name just a few.

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

I´m actually working on a netlabel, where i would like to release a few pieces
of my nowadays sounds together with a couple of friends of mine. you should
definitly check out www.ideology.de :)

12-What bands are you currently listening to?

Mostly electronic ones like Mouse On Mars, Sergej Auto, Plaid, Underworld,
DJ Shadow, Hexstatic, Modernist, Boards of Canada, Daft Punk, Chemical Bros.,
Peaches, Neoangin, DMX Krew, Prefuse73 and Air for example, but also some old
stuff from Depeche Mode, FSOL, Orbital, Beastie Boys or some Discostuff from the
70´s like Salsoul Orchestra, First Choice, Ripple, Fred Wesley, Le Chic etc.,
depends on my mood :)

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

Alot of Fun, alot of Friends, alot of Inspiration, one of the best hobbies ever,
trying to make my own music :)

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

hmmm, not really in the scene i guess. I´m still doing some music somedays and
i´m working on that tracker-site (www.st-00.com), a tribute to the creator of
soundtracker, where you can find a little about the history of that great
programm and also a couple of very good modules!

But i´m also still Member of Wildfire and Lego, even both Groups are quite
inactive in releasing things today, but ... who cares! :)

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

Greets to all my dear Scenemates from the past. Especially to Booster & Ice
/ex-Dromex, Frank, Tim & den Rest von WFC und meine Legojungs :)

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