Amiga Music Preservation -

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

Well, I visited a friend back in the early 80's or something, and that
certain friend owned a C-64, a machine that would change my life forever.
I just loved the ugly little thing =). After that I spent months tormenting
my parents, desperatly trying to make them buy one for me... My dad bought
one which he let me use, and from that day, I've been stuck!! =)

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

1 C-64, 1 C-128D 2 Amiga 500, 1 Amiga 600.. Pc's were: P133, P233, P2-450!
I tried a little bit of everything with those machines..=) Also, since I loved
games, I bought a lot of consoles, and to this date I've been through the
following ones: 1 Intellivision, 1 Snes, 1 Megadrive, 1 N64, 4 Playstation,
1 Dreamcast, 2 Playstation 2 and one Nintendo Gamecube. When It comes to
computers nowdays I have one AMD 1,4Ghz and one P4 2,4Ghz... They are beeing
put to use in many areas, but mostly music and videoediting. Enough boasted. =)

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

Well, I suck at drawing stuff, both with pencil and with pixels, so gfx wasn't
my thing, so to say. As for coding, I never had the talent required. I tried a
little on the C-64, but I realized that my brain was too small for that
mission...=)

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

I tried Futurecomposer on the C-64. I used Soundtracker, Noisetracker,
Protracker and Melontracker on the Amiga. As for the Pc-trackers, there were
and are only one choice : Fasttracker! When It comes to midistuff I'm using
Reason 2.0 and some Cubase VST32...

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

None.. I never had any goal with my composing actually.. I guess my reward
came when ppl from around the globe started to snailmail me and told me that
my music actually sounded ok in their ears...=)

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

Well, there is one called "Koleosimi" which sounded just about 97% like a
mixture of Mantronix' Overload song with sounds and songarchitecure from one
of Lizardkings songs. Man that was hillarious! Some parts was almost ripped
out of the originals, and the song was lame like hell.. Well, the 2 persons
mentioned above were among our greatest idols back in those days, so I guess
we wanted to sound like them. Well, Lizardking found out about it and I
apologized to him.. Guess I should have contacted Mantronix too..
Anyway, a cool fact about the song is that I was not alone composing it, but
this certain person chose to say that only I had composed the "ripped" part of
the song, which I still today find rather...weak, so to say..

Well, the main thing is that you learn from your mistakes, isn't it? I know
I did, but I wonder if the other, unmentioned composer did...

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

The music sets the mood, whether you want it or not, so I guess...about

40-50% of the total value in a production should be fair enough.

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

I compose sometimes, but not often, and only for leisure....

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

It's gr8 stuff, but I find trackermusic to be unique. It required more from
the composer than todays formats...

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

Anything with Heatbeat, Lizardking, or the old Phenomena musicians are
examples of really good music. Also, Mazon/Ex Equinox did really gr8
songs...

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

Ahum...No..

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Oh, I listen to a bit of everything...no certain bands actually... One
all-time favourite though, is the legendary rockgroup Kiss (believe it or not)...

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

Both pain and pleasure... There was so much competition, jealousy, rivalry
and more. Sometimes people (including me) behaved like complete assholes
to each other just because of the scene. On the other hand, I can remember
many good things too. Many fun days with friends in front of our computers,
just chilling out, composing, coding or whatever... Anyway, the scene wasn't
a place for me, and will never be again...

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

Question 13 Deja-vu..

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

My girlfriend, my family, and my friends (you know who you are).
One individual greet though goes to Crown/Crb for his gr8 work
with the site you're probably reading this interview on..=)

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