Amiga Music Preservation -

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Date of birth:

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

1982. Sharp ??-728 or something with that nifty 7s diskdrive.

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

Commodore C64 Mainly played games, did some code research :)

Spectravideo MSX2

Xpress Mainly gameplaying. Konami rules.

Amiga 500 First played games, then found SoundFX and
so the music making started. Found Deluxe Paint 2,
SEKA and gfx-rippers. Afterwards did some asm-
code shit things :-D
"joined" scene as Wizax.

Amiga 1200 Same activity as above.

Amiga 4000/040 Continues...

Playstation games!

p2-450/blech... still...

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

Music has been always my life. I've been playing tunes since I was 3 years old.
What I hear I can repeat it with keyboard, thats why :)
Played drums since 4 years old. Coding would have been too much learning to do
something. Things I've been doing have come "inside" me. Music does. But
so does GFX. I've been doing gfx since dawn, but firstly on paper ;)
I'm a walking jukebox.

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

Logic Audio
FastTracker 2
Octamed x
ProTracker 2.3a, this is the one I've been using like hell.
Noisetracker 2
VARIOUS PROGRAMS (TFMX, FutureComposer, Digital Mugician...)
Soundtracker 2.x
SoundFX

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

Digital Magician was my higher state of music at '91 :)
Then came several other, today crappy, tunes.

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

Hm, nope. I like to remember them all, as I don't have them
anymore.

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

Without music, you're quite bored. Just like old pc games didn't
have music/fx's, were boring like hell (well they didn't have
soundcards either). To me music is life.

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

Yes I am. You can find my music from various places on internet :)
For professional purposes too, one for a film, maybe few vinyl techno
records.. stuff like that.

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

well, mp3 gives us freedom to do music with better equipment without
limitations of mod. or .xm with midi or such.

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

Scene ones:
Dr.Awesome : Tunafish
Many of Jesters, Nukes.. agh too many! Can't .. focus ..! :D

Industrial Music: (:-D)
Aphex Twin : almost all tunes!
Agh, too many tunes.. well see my homepages.

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

Nope. CD's are quite out from my scale ;) maybe some mp3's to the net.
Long live the vinyl! (You can hear us dj's shouting that).

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Almost all Warp records stuff. Techno.
Mostly ambient kind of.

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

Excitement! Friends! Memories, girls... :D

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

Yes! Watch out for TG'99 releases (pc)...

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

You for this interview, Mikko (Yolk) for being always
my friend, Sami (Mistral) too, ALL Ksylitol guys and girls
out there (you know who you are!), Lassi (bStates) for
madness is out there with us three always, all ex-parallax
guys (are we coming back, Simply? =D ), #suomiscene@IRC,
all Amigascene guys, especially the legends I've met during
1990-1999 (you know who you are)... All my friends :)

Thanks.

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