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

Hmm.. i guess it was in 89 when i got a c64 for x-mas, i just played games
on it and had no clue of the scene. Later i just played video games and
then i stopped doing that too.. and had a break from the computer world.
But one day the summer of 1994 me and a friend of mine that knew Laz/ex-3le,
went to laz place and listened to modules, played games, watched demos.
From that moment i was totaly lost in the the world of computers again.
Me and laz became really close friends and and i bought an a500 to start
tracking. Altough i didnt do much tracking at all until i bought an
amiga1200 summer of 95. Then i could sit for hours just to end up doing
really shitty modules, (still do :)

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

Atari2600 - gaming.. donkey kong rules :)

commodore 64, gaming until it crashed one day.

Amiga500, gaming and looking at demos.

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

I guess thats becouse the sceners in my hometown where almost only traders
and musicians. Except for laz who made pixel art's too. Anyway i just liked
to do music, becouse i felt it was the most creative choice for me.

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

Sonix music (a about one month, hehe)
Then protracker, and later on digibooster sometimes.
Also some ahx tracking, ut wery few releases.

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

Hmm.. really hard to tell, but i guess in warp made me feel i had some
energy to bring to the dancefloor,or rather the demoparty floor? :)

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

hehe.. i wont even tell you, i made some really crappy stuff but i never
released much from that "crap-only" era.

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

Music means a lot to a demo, it makes the atmosphere of a demo or game,
giving the impression that a game/demo has the touch that the designer/coder
wanted it to have.

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

Naah.. i just make modules for fun. I have some plans, as all other tracker
musicians that just ends up to be unknown :)

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

I dont mind using a new media, but a mod is a mod and that is and art that
cant be compared to new stuff like that. I mean, modules can never compete
with midi stuf becouse it's just two separate worlds.

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

That list would be long..
I like most of heatbeats stuff, dizzy, groo, supernao,nuke.. and all
200 other really good tracker's i forgott,

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

Not likely.. maybye i go pro someday but it wont be modules then.. maybye
buzz or a simular newskol tracker in that case. Or programs like Reason..
hardware is way expensive.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Hmm.. mostly all of warp records stuff, björk, r.e.m sometimes, jimmy hendrix,
the doors. kraftwerk and many other groups with strange names..

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

Plessure of making something that other people (at least some of them) like.

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

Yes, tracking as usual,but im not as fanatic as before.

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

Hometown chipmate Coma of course, and laz too..
Stain/ex-classic for having cool boozepartys back in the days:)
All my friends in uprough and all others that i got to know in the scene.
Im off..

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