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Zandax
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: Zandax Group: Damage Date of birth: 02.12.1977 It was a hot summerday in 1985 when I got my first computer, Commodore 64. I used it for gameplaying. My first game on Commodore 64 was 'Talladega' and it took me a day or two to figure out how to load it :) Well... years passed and I spent much of time for copying games and playing them. I also programmed some junk with basic. I had always been very impressed of those crackintros with their colorful rasters and smoothscrollers. Many times those crackintros were even much prettier than the cracked game itself, I think. So I got interested in the scene. In 1990 I finally bought Amiga 500, mostly because one friend of mine had been influencing me for a year to do that (respects to Dragon/Vision-X). That was amazing time - Amigascene was growing like a hell and whole fuckin' gameindustry was focused on Amiga. So in 1991 I joined a group and started swapping and composing music. In 1994 I bought Amiga 1200 and updated it in 1998 with tower, 68060, more ram etc. and in 1999 I got PC. Couple years ago I bought C128D, mainly for watching those new incredible C64 demos. Because I love music :) I've also done some gfx during the years, but nothing so special. Hmm... and I've never been too intelligent in maths (if we talk about coding) and stuff like that, so maybe music making suited me best. My first composing software was Soundtracker and after that I moved to use Protracker. I think that Protracker 2.3 is the very best tracker ever made. Fasttracker 2 is... nice :) Hard to say. Maybe those oldest tunes I composed in early 90's. They are just sooo jerky. A huge. You can just try out to watch a demo or play a game without music and you know what I mean - music just gives that special atmosphere. Music is at least 50% :) Yes. I'm not very active, but still composing for fun always when I get that creative mood on :) Hmm... I think that the point is that it doesn't depend on what format music has done if it's good and rockin'. Some old farts like me surely miss the early years of homemicrocomputers, but technological development just has to go on. Well... I especially respect those real veterans of tracker-music. I mean those guys like Dr. Awesome, Fleshbrain, Romeo Knight, Uncle Tom, S.L.L and Static. But not to forget guys like: Audiomonster, Bruno, Dizzy, Heatbeat, Mr. Man, Strobo, Dean and many many others... Some unforgetable mod-classics: Blue Stars by Time Traveller & Blackstar Consummation by Danko Madness Took Me by Uncle Tom (brilliant!) Astrogate by Jugi (I like the atmosphere very much) Many different tracker-formats has appeared during the years, but more channels or / and a better sound quality gives no more talents after all, I think. I'm still impressed how good some old mods sounds even today. And if we talk about scenemusic-history, I have to say that Jester got respect more than he _ever_ deserved, eg. #1 in the charts - his tunes were surely good, but not that good. note: all comments here are my own opinions, so feel free to disagree :) I haven't done anything so special that would be worth of remastering. Chemical Brothers, FSOL, Faithless, The Orb, Daft Punk, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Infected Mushroom, The Prodigy, Moby, Yello, Vangelis, Orbital. And some Finnish stuff like: Pelle Miljoona, Neljä Ruusua, Kolmas Nainen, Eppu Normaali, 22-Pistepirkko. Friends and fun! Well... I still compose music, watch the latest demos, read some scene-news so maybe I could call myself as a scener :) My first personal musicdisk will be released some day. Actually it has been under process for about 4 years :) Let's wait and see... The best demos has already been made in the 80's and 90's. Warm greetings to all old scene-friends and contacts. Fuck off Bill Gates. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- please note: this interview is ©opyrighted in 2002 by crown of cryptoburners ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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