This profile was edited with pimpys.com Editor A Big Hello!!! To All And Sundry!!! Thanks for taking a look at My Space - I hope you like the tunes! Kuryakin is the foremost of a multitude of names and pseudonyms and aliases that it's useful to use in order to release a variety of material which differs so widely from one track to the next. The music here is probably the stuff I'm most happy with to date. It's got the right grooves and epic feel I want to create with my Kuryakin identity. Other names I either go by or am associated with are: King Khamun, The House Band, fiveandahalfhertz (5.5Hz), Bad Ischt, Native and Sidrat. The way I write my music is usually to play around with a drum machine or chop up and rearrange a bassline or start fresh with a riff I've been humming on my way home. I tend to use Reason as a starting point as it lends itself so quickly and easily to the creative process. That said, however, I often spend hour upon hour chopping up extended drum fills in SoundForge and ReCycle in preparation for a new track. I like to use Dr Rex but never with the bundled loops; it feels too much like cheating. Besides, to get the best out of Reason you have to put in a lot of hard work. I've been criticised for being too anal when it comes to sequencing... ...As I can't actually play any conventional musical instruments (including MIDI keyboard) I just use a mouse to point and click the notes, beats, patterns, velocities, etc., etc. The trouble is that if you sequence purely electronically it can tend to sound lifeless and flat. So instead I usually go throught all the notes in a sequence and slightly offset their timing and velocities to try to emulate the inconsistencies a live musician might create. Anyway, once I've completed my pedantic scouring of my finished Reason tune I have the laborious process of transfering all of the individual samples (drum hits and loops as well as chromatic instruments) and MIDI files to my hardware equipment so that I can perform my material live. This really does take forever! An average of 15-20 hours to complete a relatively complex tune. I tend to use Cubase for MIDI editing. I chop up all the tracks so that I have everything condensed to it's component parts and arranged into 16 tracks. I use AkSys to arrange all of my sampler settings which is one of the best, most user-friendly bits of software I've ever had the pleasure of using. So, anyway, I'm gonna stop waffling now. Once I get going there's no stopping me and people tend to get a weird glazed look in their eyes... Kuryakin
