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

I'm a young fella, so my interest in computers started relatively late -
sometime in the early 1990s. I guess computers sort of run in the family,
my father used to have lots of computers too. My brother was the one that
introduced the scene-related stuff to me around the same time.

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

I hate to admit that I've mostly been a PC guy, and what's worse, I've
even been an Atari ST user for quite some time :)
Nowadays I'm primarily a Mac user.

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

I've never been very good at drawing, and my coding skills are rudimentary
to say the least. Music is more or less instant gratification, you get
nice results quickly.

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

As I said earlier, I've mostly been a PC guy, so on the tracking side
I've been using Scream Tracker 2 and 3, Fasttracker 1 and 2, and most
recently Impulse Tracker 2 (what can I say, I like the interface!).
I've done some (very little) work with Soundtracker on Linux too.

For 'serious' composing, up until recently I used Jeskola Buzz, which is
a nice program to use, but *awfully* buggy. Now I use Ableton Live on
the Mac. The instant gratification aspect again - it's so easy! :)

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

The one that I never released.

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

Obviously most of my really old ones!

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

It's *huge*. Quite often if I don't like the music in a demo or a game,
I don't like the entire product either.

That sort of means that I don't really like a lot of (recent) demos.

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

Well, err, there's been some talking.. But uh, yeah, leisure mostly.

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

What's there to think about? Logical progression, I suppose...

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

Modules or 'real' tunes? :) To be on the safe side, here are my (current!)
favorites in both categories:

Module:
Lots of Karl Lihagen's rohformat releases.
Falcon's modules.. wonderful!
An old XM netlabel by the name of Tetris used to have lots of good shit..
Most Virta releases.. *just* the kind of techno I prefer!

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

No.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Oval, Phylyps, Various Artists (the artist:), Bobby Orlando,
Patrick Cowley, Pan Sonic, DJ Di'jital, Sole Tech, Seymour Bits,
Erotek, Maurizio, DAF, Dexter, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Denki Groove,
Sparks, Navicon Torture Technologies, etc, etc, etc, etc....

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

Lots of great stuff to both listen to and look at!

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

Yeah, I do music for RNO.

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

Greets to all my friends I suppose, and uh, I suppose I'm expected to say
"BASS" but instead I'll say:

Plagiarism is a necessity, progress demands it.

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