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

It started in the late 80´s when my dad show me some sounddemos on the
Commodore Amiga 1000. He also buyed the Ultimate Soundtracker in 1989, but
he didnt use it. In 1992 he buyed a Amiga 2000 and give me his Amiga 1000.
This was the start of all :)

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

I still have a C64II, a Amiga 1200 and the Amiga 1000 from my dad.
I started composing with the Amiga 1000 in 1993 with the Soundtracker, and
switched later to SoundFX1.3, and finally 1994 to ProTracker.

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

First i did tunes just for fun, and later for 2 intros for a reginal Disk selling
group, but they were busted by the Police in 1996 (lol) and since then i only make
tunes again just for fun and upped them later to modarchive.com. I still searching
my old disks for my old tunes.

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

1993 SoundTracker & SoundFX1.3
1994 - 1996 ProTracker
1996 - 2001 FastTracker 2.08 and ScreamTracker 2.21 (this was my lazyest time)
2002 - 2006 (stopped tracking for 4 1/2 years)
2006 - ???? MilkyTracker, ProTracker2.3d & StarTrekker1.3

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

hm, hard question.... I still like my tunes created for a Cream intro called
"18 Years" on the Amiga. I didn´t like my old tunes from 1993 - 1996 (lol).

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

Yes, some of my old SoundFX tunes.... They sounds today eerie to me (totally detuned
samples used)

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

It must be a good one!! A lazy tune in a action game didn´t reach the goal.
And about demotunes.... Just listen to Laxity´s Desert Dream tunes - this is a good
example of a demotune with a "golden goal" :)

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

Yes, i still composing Chiptunes for my groups "Surprise Productions" and
"The Ravebusters". I have composed a so called "muzak" for a commercial.

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

I like MP3 and OGG, because its a standart to share/listen to audio & music.
I still plan to convert some of my Chiptunes to MP3 and put it on a musician portal.

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

Yes:

The Desert Dream Soundtrack by Laxity, Lotus 2 & 3 Game Soundtrack, Almost all SIDMon &
FutureComposer tunes, Bluesong by Karsten Obarski (drilled in my head *g*),
Space Debris by Captain and many more... :)

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

Yes, one day :)

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

I didn´t buy Audio CDs anymore, but i still like some 80´s stuff, like:
Depeche Mode, Propaganda, Tangerine Dream, Jan Hammer, Giorgio Moroder and some
early HipHop & Rap artists, like Public Enemy, Dr.Dre, RunDMC, Rockmaster Scott etc..

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

I still like to watch the old (and the new) demos, intros, cracktros etc... on my
Amiga & C64.... I started on the Amiga and i die on it :)

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

Yes, atm im as musician in Surprise!Productions and The Ravebusters.

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

Greetz to all in S!P (special greetz to NuKe^SiP, daXX, CoRe, tEiS, druid, can, haddoc, BuLL^,
ikstar pailes and Psycreator from m00ds plateau).
And to the musicians:
Chromag, u4ia, Laxity, dubmood, 4mat, heatbeat, Karsten Obarski, Chris Huelsbeck,
Rob Hubbard, Frog^JPN (alcohol, aspirin *g*) and audiomonster... You changed my life :)

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