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Mixer 
Handle: Mixer
Real Name: Jouni Ikonen
Lived in: Finland
Ex.Handles: n/a
Was a member of: Australian Drug Foundation (ADF), Elysion, Origo Dreamline

Modules: 12  online
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Interview


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    Handle: Mixer

    Group: Origo Dreamline

    Date of Birth: 7.2.1974


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

  • My father had programmable calculators, I was very young about 7 or so, 1980
    or 1981, some time after that he bought a VIC-20. I got into the c-64 "scene"
    somewhere in 1986/1987.


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

  • VIC-20,C-64,Some MSX,AMIGA 500, All generations of PC's.. With VIC-20 I mostly
    played games and programmed basic, on c-64 I programmed assembler and did
    music, with msx I just played, with Amiga I played, did music and programmed
    and I've used PC for pretty much everything like everyone nowadays.


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

  • I also programmed quite much. I did music because I could, there was no
    articular reason to it and I had no special skills or talent for that. I was
    just a kid with a computer. I have learned quite a bit about music over the
    time though.


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

  • 1st on Vic-20 and on c-64 I used some simple composing programs, then on c-64
    I programmed my own music players and did stuff on that platform. I also
    programmed my own player on AMIGA but never released anything done with it -
    everbody was using modules, so the available tracker tools were handy. Since
    1990 I also did stuff on synths and used KCS on AMIGA and PC and later other
    available software such as Cubase and later Cubase audio on PC as MIDI
    sequencers.


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

  • Funny question, I think I only released 1 or 2 modules overall in some compo's.
    I have always been more of a c-64 scener and they don't call musical pieces
    "modules". All the houdred or so unpublished amiga-mods were briefly
    available at my web site, which is no longer in operation. I have no
    particular favourites, they all suck.


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

  • A lot of them and simply coz they are bad. I also don't like that someone sent
    some of my early and unpublished c-64 tunes to HVSC without asking me. Now it
    is impossible to get them out of there anymore.


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

  • Music is 50+ percent of the experience, a demo should be a story, like a movie
    or make a point and music should alleviate the mood of all of it. The same
    applies for a game, best games had the best mood also and a lot of it had to
    do with music.


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

  • I spend a lot of my spare time composing music or producing music with my
    friends.


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

  • I think that those are just dataformats. Music is music and mostly format
    independent.


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

  • No


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

  • Perhaps.


  • 12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

  • Well, a lot of them, each week some new good one comes about, I'll find their
    stuff and try to unfersand them. Recently I listened to the Matrix Reloaded
    sountrack. Some fine tunes by Don Davis, Fluke and Juno Reactor, but the CD
    sounded terrible because it is way too "loudness maximized"


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

  • long time friends, a lot of skills, deep understanding of technology, machine
    intuition, some great events, that kind of stuff.


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

  • I sometimes chat in IRC at #c-64 @ircnet and keep in touch with old friends.
    I have done some C-64 remixes for fun, that's all. I also visit Assembly in
    Finland occasionally.


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

  • Greetings to all old C-64 folks.


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