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

It started back in the late 80s. A friend of mine had a c64 and we played
some games. I did not have contact to the scene so far, but some time later
he introduced me to a guy named age. He showed me the first demo i ever saw.
IT was some kind of cracktro for a c64 game called no mercy. I was very
fascinated by that and started to collect and watch demos.

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

Commodore 64 - Mainly playing games. Some Sid tunes. Some coding.
Schneider CPC - Some coding.
Amiga 500 - Music.
Amiga 1200 - Music.
PC - Music.

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

Well, this is pretty simple. I simply can´t paint. I tried to paint some pics
to but it looked like some kindergarten picture ;-) . I did some code as well,
but i simply was not so much fascinated by that.

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

C64 - Sidmon.
Amiga - Soudtracker, Protracker, MED, Octamed, Octalyzer.
PC - X-Tracker, Fasttracker, Modplugtracker, Reason, Nuendo, VST Based Software.

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

Suspicous love on amiga.
Explicit Coding on PC.

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

The Timegate for Mystic Bytes 40k intro for the nexus party 1995.
This one really sucked. It had to be put together in a few hours on a fucked
up pc. This was not quite what i wanted it to be.

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

I hold the opinion that music is as important as the other parts. not more,
not less. A production that lacks good music can get boring very soon. The
music is a means to perfect a demo or a game. It can add atmosphere and
perfects the character of a production.

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

Well i do still compose, but not for any demos. We have a local hiphop crew
in our area, for which hmc and me do provide beats and instrumentals.

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

This has two sides. (As most things)
The good thing about todays music files is, that good musicians can create
the tunes as they want them to be more easily. The bad thing is that lamers
can easily sample and rip stuff and put togehter tunes that suck...
I simply can´t stand those boom boom techno shit.

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

HMC - Naturality 2
HMC - Evil Hordes
HMC - Dream on / Dream off
Jester - Stardust Memories
Jester - Elysium
Romeo Knight - Cosmic Dog
Virgill - Interference
Doc Holiday & Twilight - Clairvoyance
Jesper Kyd - Global Trash 3 v2
Purple Motion - Unreal 2
Sicomicanico - Castaway
Hunz - Clone it
Pepe - Entering Cyberspace
Wildfire? - In full effect demo tunes.

just to name some that come into my mind first.

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

Yes, definitely.

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

U2, Depeche Mode, New Order, Mood, Jedi Mind Tricks, Hieroglyphics, Styles of
Beyond, Bomb tha Bass, Massive Attack.

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

A very entertaining and great time and a good start to my hobbies and my work.

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

No, unfortunately not.

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

HMC
Twilight (Daniel Hansen)
Orbit
Sting
Alpha / LEgend Design (Karsten Rohrbach)
Pepe / Subzero (Dirk)
Yazz / Haujobb.

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