Amiga Music Preservation -

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

computers => 1984 with playing on my dad's commodore 64
demoscene => 1991 with watching Phenomena by Enigma

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

amiga 500 : games, demos, gfx
amiga 1200 : gfx, music, demos, demos, demos, demos, demos, demos...
pentium 90 : the same as above (+ games, of course :)
pentium 200 : the same as above (+ games, of course :)
celeron 450 : the same as above (+ games, of course :)

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

No reasons for gfx, i'm doing gfx too :)
coding ? ahem... too hard for me !

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

protracker 3.52 on amiga, fastracker 2.08 on pc

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

huum... with katmandu.mod for amiga module and with starcast.mod for
xm pc music...

...baaaah, my goal is reach with all my new music :))

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

it's strange for a musician but i like ALL my tunes :)

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

It's really really important ! a demo without music is a shit ! really !

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

Yeah ! lotsa music ! for demos of course and recently for a scene audio
cd with others scene great musicians

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

hmmm, baaah, it's cool to replay audio tunes... but i still love .sid
music :)

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

hooooo ! a really hard work !

"knulla kuk" by moby and lotsa others tune by him
all tunes by laxity (amiga) and julius/madfreak
all chiptunes by radix !

all tunes from rob hubbard on c64, madmax & scavenger on atari...

i forget LOTS OF great musicians and tunes !!

i hate that kind of question !

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

hmmm, not for the moment, but i planned to do an audio cd with new tunes
:)

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

lots off psychedelic trance group like Astral Projection, Shiva Shidapu,
all releases by Ofer Dikovski, Total Eclipse, etc...

i really love the symphonic hard rock by the finish crew Nightwitch

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

Lots of pleasure and friends !

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

yes, of course !

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

I love your demos guy :)

greets ? hemm, feel free to see my greeting list on my homepage...

go visit http://www.chiptune.com/ !!! :)

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