New members should introduce themselves here.

[Hipster Bales]

Even though I've been here since January, I'll go first.

Hey, I'm Hipster Bales, I'm 15 y/o, I'm from the UK, I use FL Studio, and I make house/electro-pop music

You can find me on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/hipster-bales

and YouTube:
my YT link is on my SC profile

[Benedict]

Even tho I have been here since the war (which one I cannot remember), I will go second:

My name is Benedict, and I am a DAWaholic. Oh, sorry, wrong meeting.

I was a 15yo in 1984/5. By then I was already in lust with Pop music: Duran Duran, Adam Ant, Joan Jett, Deep Purple, Foreigner... A year later I would discover the underbelly that drove Rock: Sisters Of Mercy, Shriekback, Dwight Yoakam...

After being bored silly by my BA of Uselessness at the fancy Uni*, except for the Alt bands, I worked in a bank and met a studio owner where I did the usual blag my way in and get trained in mixing (really making adverts for regional AM radio stations).

When that folded, I bought my first synth, Casio CZ-1000, and started making my own pieces so I had things to do. Eventually I got some clients; salesmen whose Sales Tapes needed preparing - yay! After almost getting a couple of record deals, one of which could have seen me on Factory Records - better Yay! it all kinda imploded and regular jobs were needed.

In the middle there were more clients, incl. one who was offered a contract with a powerful backer here in Oz, but as usual he blew it for his short-term comfort, and I lost my shot at Simon Cowell status (Kingmaker). So with my intense saving habit over the decades I bought back my slave contract, and here I am doing me in a cool town - cooled by Antarctic breezes that is.



Official: https://benedictroffmarsh.com/
Bandcamp: https://benedictroff-marsh.bandcamp.com/
YouTube:



*ASD will do that to you, especially if you work in a Gay Bar and live with Punks where life is far more immediate.