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

Back in the early 1980's the arcade machines was the first contact with
"computers", games like pac-man, defender, galaxians and space invanders.
1985 when i was 12years old i got a c64 as a birthday present.
I was amazed when i typed something and the computer answered "syntax
error". The very big thing was actually when i managed to get another error
message than "syntax error", here i was 13years old boy trapped in a world
of "error messages".
I felt a connection with the computer, it felt almost like that i was in
another dimension. I started to program simple programs in basic, like
text-adventures and so on. My parents didnt understand why i was glued to
my computer all the time.

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

C-64, amiga500,amiga1200,PC:s (actually i got 8 PCs today) in my home
network

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

I dont really know, i liked music more than coding and to succeed in the
scene, everyone could not be coding(and my good friend CSA was a very good
programmer so i started to make music.

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

1. Soundtracker on amiga (the first true tracker and best)
2. rockmonitor on c64
3. finaltracker on pc

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

I dont really know, but Big in japan was a big hit. My goals was to release
a collection instead of making a hit. Speed-head (made about 1 module in

1-2 days)

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

There are many tunes that i made that i just dont understand why i released
at all. For me was it not so important that the tunes were perfect, i just
wanted to release all that i made even if it didnt sound that good.

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

Sometimes its very important to create a good feeling, in demos the music it
very important.

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

I am composing but i dont have enough time, i will release a CD and MP3s of
my old songs and make some new ones too. I have 10-20 tunes made between
1992-2000 that i never released.

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

I still like those old C64 tunes very much, amiga mods..it is not the same
thing to make music in a studio or sing/play instruments.

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

Finnish gold tunes, martin galway and rob hubbard tunes on c64
all the late amiga tunes from 1988-1989

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

yes

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Red hot chillipeppers is good. i also like the 80s, i listen to allkind of music
(not rap or soul)

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

It gave me a lot of good things. 1986 I started a small demo-group called
JAM (programming still in basic) and then when i bought a "final cartridge"
a new dimesion opened. Programming in machinecode, i spent many hours, days
and nights to manage to get a first demo for our new group called "Mjau".
Demo was finished and we started to produce more demos and swapping with
famous elite groups but we were actually "lame" this was the first contact
with the scene. We wanted to move as fast as possible to be somebody in
the c64 scene, i cracked some games too, but it was not so fun. I quit
programming and got more interested in the Scene. We joined Byterapers in
early 1988 and i quit programming, we reached a high position in the scene.
I made some music and did some minor coding that year. I bought an Amiga the
same year(1988) and started to make music, we made 6 muzzax collections in
a period of 10months and also had 70contact. I spent all my time making
music and swapping. We reached a high position in the scene and 1990 i quit
swapping and making music. I bought an amiga1200 in 1992, i made some music,
graphics and videos. 1992 Unix and Internet was a new kick for me, i wanted
to learn more about networking and operating systems (Unix).
I wanted to study computerscience but my "grades" were not good enough for
university but i found out that a local district in stockholm had started a
project that they called "network and communication" which was a simpler
program that the computerscience at the university had. I studied (and was
hacking at my freetime) and after 1year and 2moths i got my first job which
was a unix-networking support technician at a small computer firm. since
1994 i have been working with computers. Nowadays i work as a IT-architect
and developer at a scandinavian airlines company. Today the "scene" still
means a lot, the time spent in mid 80s is the most important thing
In my personal development/career the scene have been very important and
helped me to belive that nothing is impossible.

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

I am not very active anymore, but i realize that it is very important and
serious (its a lifestyle that i like) I am actually programming a webbrowser
which will reach the market this year.

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

I want to send greetings to all c64, amiga, pc-sceners.

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