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

It started when my father came home with a commodore 64 one day in 1985
and gave me and my brother the c64 basic hand book :)

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

Philips G7000 - Played games, was really cool and fun games at the time.

Texat TI99/4a - Played games and tryed the soundchip on it, was kinda cool but really basic.

Commodore 64 - Played games and did some music, you can find them on the HVSC on VARIOUS/M-R/Noise_of_SID

Amiga500/1200 - Played games and did alot of music and some music disks with my borther, nothing released though.

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

I was more interested in Music, allthough I wanted to leard how to program and stuff but i guess i was to lazy.
I stil want to learn but... ;)

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

On the C64 i used UBIKS Music, i didn't know of any other program at that time, i didn't even know about demos and stuff until i got the Amiga, I'm alittle sad about that ;/
First I used Noisetracker but i wanted BPM so when protracker came WITH BPM i was sold :)
Now i use Reason and Renoise.

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

I don't had any specific goal :)
But one I am mostly prod of is a Track called Turrican,
Where i used all the sounds from the game TurricanII and added more sounds.
It is around 10 minutes long and consists of 6 diffirent tunes blending into eachother in different moods.

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

Probably alot of unfinished stuff that really sounded crap the next day ;)

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

I think it's pretty important, the music makes the demos, games more living and memorable.

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

I am stil composing, mostly becuase it's fun and it is my primary interrest.
I do remixes of c64 tunes http://remix.kwed.org search for trace
And original stuff. http://trace.ziphoid.com

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

It's great, escpessially the mp3 format, so you can share you stuff with others on your homepage and so.

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

Others or? If you mean others that it is hard cause ther was so many of them.

On amiga i really like the music from the demo Interference and the music from all the Digitall Illusions Pinball games and many many more...

On c64 i like Way of the exploding fist, Sanxion, Monty on the Run and more...

It's really hard to narrow it down :)

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

I never get as far as thinking about it... ;)

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

No bands in perticular, Trance, goa, ambient, dance and so on.

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

Really many memories. Wish i was more involved in the scene back then...

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

I am in a c64 scene remixing c64 tunes, chatting on irc with other remixers on efnet #slayradio
http://www.slayradio.com http://www.remix64.com

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

I would like to greet all the cool guys who did some amazing stuff on the c64 and amiga.
All who keeps the scenes alive.

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