Amiga Music Preservation -

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

My interest for computers began long time ago... as soon as I heard
anything about computer I think!... around 1983

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

I first got an Amstrad CPC 6128, in 1987, played quite a lot with it,
began coding in Assembler and Basic, and drawing with OCP Art Studio.

3 years later, in 1990, I bought an AMIGA 500. I got immediately
Soundtracker and began to compose my first tunes, with the original
samples distributed with Soundtracker (ST-01,...:), and made some
tries with Sonix, Future Composer,... in 1992, I got the perfect
Protracker... I discovered Deluxe Paint and began pixelling some
pics. I began also learning Assembler 68000 on SEKA.

Then, in late 1993, I bought an AMIGA 1200. Wonderful:)
Always trackin' on Protracker, and drawin' pics on Deluxe Paint,
and then Personal Paint and Brilliance, and always codin' a little
on Asm'One... In 1996, I began composing a few tunes on
the brilliant THX Sound System (now AHX) by Abyss.

In 1997, I finally bought a PC with an AMD K6 200 MMX, keeping
of course my AMIGA 1200 with 68030... and began composing
some multichannel tunes on Fasttracker 2, etc...

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

Humm, my case is particular, as I'm not only making music, but ALSO gfx
and coding... oops:)

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

First Soundtracker, then Noisetracker, and then Protracker on Amiga.
Some tries on the awful Sonix, on the interesting Future Composer, and
on the quite popular Octamed, too.
Now mostly using Fasttracker 2 on PC.

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

Not so simple question:)... You often stay unsatisfied by some parts
of your compositions... but I'm quite satisfied of most of my chiptunes,
and of bigger tunes like "Grenadine whirlpool", "Sounds like the sun",
or "Funky fingers"...

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

Not especially...........

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

It's an essential part of the success of a demo or game... The music
install a special atmosphere, and if the music doesn't fit good
to a demo/game, then a well coded production can be ruined...

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

I'm still composing sometimes, for leisure purposes... BUT it happened
that composed for commercial reasons (jingles).

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

The format of the music is not that important... with any of them you can
compose a masterpiece... the MP3 is surely a wonderful one, as now any
music piece can be spreaded easily, with a perfect sound quality.

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

About the trackin' scene so... my favourite modules are some tunes by
Jogeir Liljedahl like "Living in a dream",... the best tunes by Audiomonster
("The Song", "Canal Green"), the funky masterpieces by Moby ("Elekfunk",...),
etc... in fact, I've so many favourite tunes !!!...

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

Nope, I don't think so...

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

I love acid jazz bands like Jamiroquai, The Brand New Heavies,... some poprock
bands like Garbage, Blur,... and also Trip Hop like Portishead, Morcheeba,
Bjork, Archive.

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

With the scene, I was able to use my creativity my some interesting people
on stunning productions... so that's sure it was a really good experience.

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

I'm still a bit active, as I go sometimes to some parties... but I'm not as
active as 4/5 years ago, that's sure. Now, I just compose some tunes for the
few prods of my groups, and for party music compos... when I find the time
to finish them :)

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

Humm... I'll greet all the guy I met with the demoscene, and all the contacts
I had when I was swapping on Amiga (around 200 contacts, quite a lot, eh:)...
So, helloes to Moone, Made, Moby, Clawz, Rez, Red Ribbon, Floyd, Radix,
Loonie, Mr. King, Rahiem, Chorus, Vocal, Reflex, Suny, Zebig, Doh, Puh,
Gandbox, Vodka, Tetsuo, BipBip, Mellow-D, Colorbird, Gryzor, Zaltor,
Xulax, Theo, Thug, Viper, Sound Aestesis, Muffler, Mushies, Yolan, Slaine,
Eloy, Oxbow, Data, Noodle, Dizzy, Whiskas, Hol, Vim!, Trasher, Chromag,
WillBe, Djamm, Lluvia, DrYes, Traven, Wipe, Slummy, Zack, etc....
there are so many ones, I can't remember all the handles now !:)

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