Amiga Music Preservation -

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

(First, please apologize my bad english !)
When i was 12 years old, i had my first computer (a CPC Amstrad) for
Christmas.
It was the best gift I ever had: It really changed my life !

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

Amstrad CPC, and so Amiga.
CPC was a dream !
Nostalgia...

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

Music always been in the deep of myself.

Teenager, during the summer nights, lengthened on a long chair, eyes in the
starry sky, i was listening to Jean-Michel JARRE on my CDman...

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

SoundTrack at first.
NoiseTracker follows.
And finally ProTracker, the best one in 1990 ...

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

"Glorious Landscape".
With this piece, I succeeded in composing the music I always wanted :
original, non-repetitive, beautiful... at least for me :)

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

"Greasy Duck" (i heard a lot about it so let me say that it's a really
original composition from myself.

"Purple shades" of Hi-Lite is a complete rip of my tune !)
It's one of the worst music i ever have composed !
I make it quickly, in one night (the day before), for Ninja who wanted a
chiptune for his demo named "Destroy Fascism". Unfortunately (if i can say),
the demo wins the Saturn Party 93! So, this music was very diffused and is
the most known among which I did (with "Time for manga" too).

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

Music is 33% part of a demo or a game.

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

Sometimes, just for fun.

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

It sounds like they are less "rich" than the one we could make in .mod, at the
time.

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

My Top-5:

1) Klisje paa klisje / Walkman
2) Knulla kuck / Moby
3) Overload / Tip & Mantronix
4) Florence / Audiomonster
5) Phenomena / Tip & Firefox

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

Not at the moment.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Jean-Michel Jarre.
Daft Punk.
Craig Armstrong.
Dido
Gotan Project
Infected Mushrooms
Saint Germain

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

Dream...

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

The scene ?
I'm creating freeware and shareware :)

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

Hi and thanks to all the people i meet during this "amiga" years...

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