Tried music lessons long ago in the early 80's - tried to play trombone, faked my way through band. Started messing around on the drums at school after classes. Started a punk band with two friends, I was the drummer, made a lot of noise and two self made tapes. Actually had a letter from a small record label to make a record!!
Discovered synths with other friends - started listening to Tangerine Dream and many 80s synthpop bands. Took a few keyboard lessons, never liked to practice. Used to borrow a 4 track tape recorder from a friend and made some songs. Had a Korg Poly 800 and Korg drum machine.
Ended up selling my equipment in the mid-90s to fund buying my first Mac. Discovered sequencer programs like Cakewalk when I lived in Denver, a friend had a great setup- Yeah that's you This Quiet Dust (Mark Boer), this is all your fault!!!! ;-)
Mark and I collaborated on a number of songs and made our own tapes. Talked about submitting to a label, but never did.
Moved back to Florida with family - finally purchased some synths and started aquiring equipment to make music around 2002, after I started DJing. Equipment I currently use, if you are curious:
* Mac PowerBook G4 – 1.67 GHz Power PC
* Propellerhead Reason 4.0
* Gforce Future Retro Software Synths - with emulators of Mini-Moog, ARP Odyssey, OSC, and Mellotron
* Arturia Moog Modular V2 - emulator of Moog Modular
* M-Audio O2 MIDI Controller
* Korg Triton LE Synthesizer
* Tascam Portastudio 788 – 8 Track Digital Recorder
* Roland TD-3SW V-Drums - Electronic Drum Kit
* M-Audio BX8a Powered Monitors
* M-Audio Trigger Finger MIDI Controller
* Ableton Live 6.0
* MicroKorg Analog Synthesizer
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