Amiga Music Preservation -

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

In the mid 80's I always went to my friend to play with his c64.

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

'88 - c64 (still have it) - games
'91 - a500 (sold) - games / demos
'93 - a1200 (still have it) - games / demos / musicmaking
'00 - pc - games / demos / musicmaking / programming

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

I had no talent for coding or graphic.Had no talent for music either, but this
can be learned easier than other things, since it consists of more clichés.

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

Protracker, Octamed SoundStudio, MLine Editor, DigiBooster Pro

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

Depends on what the goal was.But I'm more or less satisfied with some of them.

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

I think noone can forget where he came from, so I proudly stay to my older tunes
aswell. We all were beginners once. :)

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

Sometimes a music "sells" a production, sometimes the music lowers its worth.
The most important is to create a music what fits into the overall concept of
the demo / game. And a demo / game without music? No way...

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

I do it for myself in my leisure time mostly. Don't feel experienced enough
for a commercial product yet.

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

Mp3 is a great thing for all musicians to spread their work.And it doesn't
limit you as tracking does.

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

There are a lot, and the space is too limited for count them all.

I got lot of inspiration from Jeroen Tel (his Supremacy tune is one of the
best ever made for c64), Groo, Jogeir Liljedahl, Laxity (the Kefrens
coder/musician), Ben Daglish, and a lot of other ppl...

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

Maybe someday. I have no clue what future will bring...

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Mostly goa artists like Astral Projection, Dimension 5, Ra, Hallucinogen,
Bypass Unit, but I listen too all kind of music what has something for me.
Even commercial crap can appeal me sometimes :)

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

A lot of friends, parties and boozing.It's not a lifestyle for me, but I stay
in contact with all my scene-mates all over from the world.

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

More or less yes. And only on the Amiga-scene, i still think pc is a
sucky demo-machine :)

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

All active amiga sceners, who keep this great thing called amigascene still
alive. My groupmates in Kangooroo and Exceed. All nice people who I met at
Mekka Symposium, and probably will meet over and over again.
Zixaq for finding my sweatshirt at M/S 2000 :)
Frequent for taping me Atari demos.
Sondre for always being able to help us out when we needed his talent
Loaderror for being Loaderror
Jamie for being a pornstar
Kalms for being friendly to east-european amiga-sceners :)
Robson for saving my ass
...hmmmm this list will be endless, unless i stop it now.

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