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fake · Post by **fake** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:08 pm

You lot are great!

"B"

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:09 pm

Sascha Franck wrote:Wow fake - now that's what I call a life

hmm.. i'm reminded of the american grocery product, "i can't believe it's not butter!"

fake · Post by **fake** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:03 pm

Obviously I left most of the interesting stuff out!

The gangland stuff, dealing drugs to the famous and wrestling a pit bull that was set upon me.

I won btw!

fake

carrieres · Post by **carrieres** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:41 pm

1968 : born in a small town, saint Céré (South west in france) my family is not into music, not very rich
1976 : first musical love : jean michel jarre - oxygene
1982 : some friends make me discover reggae (third world) and all the pop kind
1983 : other friend make me discover the police still my favorite band
1985 : other friends make me discover all the rock alternative stuff, new wave, cold wave, french alternatve band
1986 : i bought a apple //c computer to play and code
1988 : bought a atari 520st and start to explore music with a midi casio keyboard under pro 24 : i don't like it, don't do anything
1989 : bought a amiga 500 and try a midi sequencer and Protracker : lot of fun
1993 : bought a amiga 1200 and try to record guitar : lot of fun !!!
1994 : bought a Future Music at WH smith where i use to buy a Amiga magazine: a lot of dream ! but the cd does not work so i decide i need a PC but i meet my wife so i leave music for a long period
1997 : bought a Windows based computer 133Mhz 32MO with a sound blaster 64 gold ! bought a Future music issue and fall in love with this magazine for 2 years a lot of tutorial about synthetic sound, very very good, i tried different sequencer cubase, logic and cakewalk and finaly used cakewalk, tried rebirth fall in love with it for long hours of techno.
it's funny because before i hated techno

the years passed and i don't remmeber when i bought my phatboy
1999 : i bought a AMD K6 300 to replace the 133 and it was a piece of shit WITH no FPU

2001 : a friend make me discovered Orion Pro and fall in love immediately

i bought a AMD duron 600
2003 : duron 1200
2004 : a athlon 2500 with korg microKONTROL and bought a lot of vsti due to the group buy fever

chao
chris

Hunter · Post by **Hunter** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 4:02 pm

putte wrote:born in 1974 as a boy of rather wealthy parents i lived a normal western-kiddie life,..

When I read this I can't get Dr Evil's 'The details of my life are quite inconsequential' speech about his past out of my mind...

"Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian woman named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it."

Jim

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:06 pm

carrieres wrote:1968 : born in a small town, saint Céré (South west in france)

so how's chile?

Katanaman · Post by **Katanaman** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:17 pm

When I was 10 I started getting into music. Mainly rock. I hated electronic music(as in techno or tarnce). I stopped watching Cartoon Network all day and started watching MTV twice as much. That's basically how I was when I was 10.

I turned 11. The interest in music was still there, but I started listening to nu metal and suddenly I wasn't AS interested in the usual MTV upbeat stuff. I'd only watch it when the music was loud enough. I still hated electronic music. I'd also listen to some rap. The Beastie Boys, particularly. My music taste wasn't refined enough for me to enjoy their instrumentals, though... I ended up forgetting about them after a couple of months. I used to play with my cousin's guitar and come up with these really simple songs about camels from outer space.

I was 12 now. The dark ages of my music taste. I'd listen to Eminem(eugh), Crazy Town(argh!), Limp Bizkit(AAAARGHHH!) and LINKIN PARK(:bang:). Still watched a lot of MTV, while not as much. I got Music 2000 so I could make my own rock songs. I would play with it for hours. I stopped writing about camels and started writing about how much I hated girls.

The first few months of my life as a 13 year old were the last months of the dark ages of my music taste. It all changed when I found the Beastie Boys CD's I had completely forgotten about 2 years earlier(Hello Nasty and The Sounds of Science). I listened to it, and for some reason, I HAD developed a better music taste already(perhaps thanks to playing with Music 2000). I still hated electronic music in general, but I started listening to Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Brothers. I wouldn't listen to nu metal as much as before, although I did still listen to Crazy Town quite a bit. I started getting into the Foo Fighters. I also played with my cousin's copy of Magix Music Maker and loved the sound I'd get from the drum and bass machine(I had never even heard about drum and bass). I also downloaded Tuareg just so I could play with another music software. That's when I discovered the amen break. I'd play with it all the time and make my electronic music. It was influenced by nu metal but all electronic. Not that I wanted to make electronic music. I wanted to make rock. But I'd rather make electronic than no music at all.

As a 14 year old, I started listening to System of a Down and developed a burning hatred towards rap and nu metal. Some might consider SOAD nu metal but that's the only nu metal I would ever listen to nowadays. I finally started getting into electronic music as well, when I bought the Prodigy's fat of the land. Listened to Massive Attack as well. I was still more of a metal head(listening to harder music than before, in fact) but the electronic music was finally appearing to be interesting. When I found out about Mindless Self Indulgence, I couldn't believe it. I loved it! Electronic music was getting more and more interesting to me.

Still a 14 year old, something changed my life forever... I was listening to one of Nothing Records'(Trent Reznor's label) radio stations and, while I didn't like many of the songs all that much, 2 songs caught my attention(well, actually, 3). They were totally different from each other but I loved both. And I would later find out they were both by the same guy, who was none other than Aphex Twin(the songs were the first song in Selected Ambient Works, vol.2 and Come to Daddy). The other song was Spacetime Continuum's Cairo. That one night I fell in love with electronic music. From then on, electronic music styles have been my favourites, even though I also started listening to all styles of music. I kept playing with Tuareg and I was getting increasingly better at it. Still pretty bad, but I was getting better.

The momment I turned 15 I felt I changed completely. The first song I made as a 15 year old was much better than anything I had made before and each song I made was better than the previous. As I was looking for some kind of synth along the lines of simsynth, I discovered Synth edit. By using synth edit, I found out about VST plugins. As I looked for VST plugins, I found out about KVR-VST. Shortly after, I bought Tracktion and downloaded loads of free plugins and making my first song in Tracktion was like magic. I was happy with my music and I was so excited it took me only 3 months to finish a 10 track album of which I gave copies to my family and friends(3 months is not much, I think! Not only did I have to study as well, I also made QUALITY music-well, masterpieces compared to my old music, at least). I kept making music from then on.

I'm 16 now. I hoped that the fact that I made decent electronic music would get me girls but they appear to hate my music. It's either too loud(my breakbeat stuff), too weird(my ambient techno/"whatever the that was"/IDM experiments), too fast(my jungle tracks) or too repetitive(they're used to listening to pop music so music with no vocals sounds repetitive to them). So now I'm hoping I get to find some kind of use for my one decent skill(which is, surprisingly, music). This sort of electronic music isn't all that popular in Portugal. Nobody listens to anything other than House, Trance(oops, excuse me, Tarnce) or big beat(in other words, the genres I hate - except for big beat, of course). You'll get like 40 Aphex Twin fans around here. We don't seem to be into obscure music.

To make matters worse, I'm 16 and I'm already making geek music. I'm in urgent need of a life.

I DO worship Mike Patton, though. I'm still into "normal" music(that is assuming one can consider Mike Patton's music normal).

GOD DAMMIT, THIS IS ONE HUGE POST!!!

Emerald Tablet · Post by **Emerald Tablet** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:23 pm

i was born by mistake
after that f**ked up on every occasion.

Sepheritoh · Post by **Sepheritoh** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:29 pm

Emerald Tablet wrote:i was born by mistake

Not bad

I can not even remember the name of the doctor who helped at my birth.

carrieres · Post by **carrieres** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:43 pm

xoxos wrote:so how's chile?

very beautiful country, very peacefull, there is no problem as in europa about terrorism, racism...
i miss the social side in the professional environment, i mean my wife and me were fired one hour before the end of the day so you don't have time to look for an other job before being fired !
i could have a beautifull life if a french employer send me to chile but this is not the case.
i am here just because my wife is from chile and that we have some to time in our french life to "test" an other country

i miss also my friends to see some concerts in Paris
thanks for your interest
chao
chris

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 6:02 pm

Katanaman wrote:When I found out about Mindless Self Indulgence, I couldn't believe it. I loved it!

you don't say

Katanaman wrote: To make matters worse, I'm 16 and I'm already making geek music. I'm in urgent need of a life.

sounds like you've got one

"honey i'm home.."

chris - "we have some to time in our french life to "test" an other country" no doubt.. no doubt whatsoever

Metanol · Post by **Metanol** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 6:21 pm

Born 1964.

1979 I got my first guitar and I want to play like Eddie van Halen.
No bands for long time, usually just jamming and smoking and drinking together with other wannabe rock stars.

I used to hate synths but 1992 or 1993 my friends ask me to play in a band where we play only Pet Shop Boys covers as a punk rock versions. I even force myself to listen some songs so I can practice them.

1995 I go to Goa first time and I start to get in to Goa trance.

1998 I buy my first pc and friend introduces me to Buzz. Galactix is first VSTi I use in some Buzz song.

Last time I downloaded and bought VSTi.s and VST.s was today.

edit. And I have started to study music theory.

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