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Moby
Interview
`n. .rP' `qb ,dP' TLb. ,dMP' all rite, now you get the chance to read TML.dMMP some facts about some of the major amiga ,nmm`XXMPX musicians. read about their history in ,#MP'~~XNXYNXTb. the scene and their plans in future.yes, ,d~' dNNP `YNTb. that's meant to be read while listening to ,~ ,NN' `YNb their modules. read 'em over and over and over.. dNP `Yb. ,NN' `b. · i n t e r v i e w · ___________ ______dP _____________ \ / \ ,N'\____ _____________. _____ \ \_____. ____\ / \___P___/ .\--\__ __/__ |--\____)---\ _____/__ |--\_ \ _/ | | | \ | | \__| | _ \ / | \__| | /\ | | _| | | _l_ | | \ / _l_ | ___| l___/=l___|====l____/===\______|==l______|\ /l___/===\______l____/ \/ Handle: Moby Group: Nooon Date of birth: 08 08 1970 It started in the early 80's when some of my parents friends came at our place once with a Sinclair ZX-81. I was about 12, and I went woow, that rules man ! A few months later, my father bought our first computer, an ORIC-1. I spent some wonderful time toying with it, playing games, coding stupid things in BASIC, and eventually started to "program" some music on it... As stated above, I first had an ORIC-1, and later an ORIC ATMOS. Did nothing interesting on it apart from a bit of BASIC and ASM coding, and bits of sound. Then I bought a C64 and a floppy drive. Did a lot of swapping, playing games, listening to cool C64 music. This is on this machine that I discovered demos. Woow man... Then I bought an Amiga 500, started music on this machine using Aegis Sonix. Then I discovered Soundtracker and I started to do mods. And I joined my first demo group (Impact Inc). Then I bought another A500 cos my previous one didn't have the possibility to remove the filter (you remember, how the sound becomes crisp when you light off the power led... :) Then I bought an A4000/030. Did the same thing, demos, games, music... Then I bought an A1200. Did the same thing, demos, games, music... Then I bought a few PCs (and the audience goes booooh). A new one every 2 years, when technology reminds you your machine is now obsolete... Today I got 4 PCs (2 Desktops, 2 laptops), 2 A1200, 1 A4000, 1 A500, 2 C64, and about 10 old consoles... Just because this is what I liked most... This is THE thing I wanted to do on my machines. Coding rapidly became too complicated for my small brain, and I can barely draw a cow, so ... All the tracker series (Sound-, noise-, pro-tracker), Aegis Sonix, Bars and Pipes (still the best MIDI sequencer around...), Delta Music, Octamed, Buzz, Renoise... I think the whole Arte soundtrack is exactly where I wanted to go. No wonder why I stopped making mods shortly after. I'm not saying they're the best mods in the world, I'm just saying that I felt like it was time for me to move on to something else, that it was probably the best I could do on an amiga... There are more than one :) I wish the whole Dragons Megademo never saw the light of the day :P The mods in this demos are some of the worst I've done... In both case, music is vital to set the mood, give power, or whatever you can't render with only gfx or code... How many times a client asked me "the music should suggest this or that, because we can't show it on screen..." I'd say the best music for a game would be the one you don't notice it's here, but you notice it's missing when you turn it off... This is what a lot of people say I achieved with the Nightmare Creatures game series. (cool ;) I'm still composing, mostly for games, but also for movies, and for my band. This is my job actually, I've been making a living on music since 1991. I don't think it changes anything... A good tune is a good tune, whatever the format... mp3 is convenient for file transfer or archiving, but that doesn't make a tune good or bad. Too many to mention (and to remember them all...) A few which spring to my mind now : "Klisje paa Klisje" by Walkman, "Banana Split" by Dizzy, "BST" by Bruno, the whole Alpha and Omega 2 soundtrack by Peter Salomonsen, "Tja" by Walkman... erhhh... "W.A.R." by Rob Hubbard (c64)... too many really... This has been a though for quite a while, but I'm not convinced it's a good idea. I think by rearranging the songs for a CD release, they would lose something. I've heard so many CD versions of mods which just don't deliver... One good exception though would be Space Deliria by Dr Awesome. The same goes for C64 remixes. 49 out 50 really suck... But there are a few gems, like Reyn Ouwehand's version of Aztec Challenge, or some titles of the Back in Time3 compilation, or the guys from Machinae Supremacy. These guys obviously focused on the music itself, without thinking if it has to stay close to the original or not. I'm into metal, I've always been. My fave bands include Meshuggah, Scarve, Soilwork, Devin Townsend, Bumblefoot, Freak Kitchen, Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, Bloodbath... It brought me where I am today ! Today, I have a band called Plug-in, we're gonna release an album next year. Last year my guitarist and I have been hired by Ron Thal (guitar god from New York) to be his musicians during his french tour. Now I produce and mix metal bands. I mean, I would probably not be doing all this if I hadn't started training my musical skill on my amiga some 17 years ago... Nope... no time... Well feel free to visit my band's website. We're gonna release a kick ass guitar album next year, with many incredible guitarists as guests (people like Ron Thal (Bumblefoot), Andy Timmons, Patrick Rondat (Elegy, Jean Michel Jarre), MAttias IA Eklundh (Freak Kitchen), Sylvain Coudret (Scarve), Chris Godin (Gno)... And there might be a C64 cover on it if you're all nice... :) Thank you to everybody who supported me until now... Hi to the Nightmare Creatures-aholics (they know who they are ;). Visit my website from time to time, some great news might come ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- please note: this interview is ©opyrighted in 2003 by crown of cryptoburners ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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