This all started along time ago, kind of like Star Wars, but on an Amiga Commodore, no not the 64, a later model, the A1200, courtesy of a friend who sold it to me. There were, some very low resolution samples, a tiny hard drive and an even tinnier processor. I had no clue what midi was, no idea as to how music was written, properly, and I didn't care either. All I knew was that I wanted to sound like the stuff I listened to in my CD collection, which wasn't much back then, but it was enough.I carried on with that machine for a few years, gradually learning this dark craft of writing music, adding all kinds of gear to the Amiga as time went by. There was never any plan to add vocals, even though simultaneously to making this music I did write lyrics, but I always saw them as something separate to the music, that has remained with me to this day. Back then it was all instrumental, cacophonous noise, most of it out of time, but there was a spirit of freedom and madness within in that noise, that I found has disappeared since I migrated over onto 21st century machinery. Make no mistake it was a pain in the arse to program a drum beat on that thing, that alone, at full speed with ideas flowing like water, usually took a few hours just to get a 16 bar loop on the go. How I'm not blind from staring into that machines screen still amazes me.So...that was that and eventually one day I bought a microphone, to see if I had what it took to add my lyrics to all this noise I was making. Turns out none of the existing noise matched my vocals or my lyrics. Back then, I just figured that my song writing or my production skills must've been rubbish, because nothing seemed to gel. Fact of the matter was that, I wasn't really trying very hard, I just kind of expected things to work first time out. Little did I know back then that in music things rarely work first time out anyway.Man, are you getting bored? I am, fuck me this is boring. Fuck it I started, least I can do is give you a conclusion. Here we go.
I write, produce, mix, program and master all my own stuff, in my bedroom, somewhere in supposed Great Britain. I write all the lyrics and the influences are many, they do seem to be veering more towards the political these days and I make no attempt to write love songs, I leave that to the Depeche Mode's of this world. I'm also a qualified sound engineer, purely for my own purposes though. I do not work in the music industry and harbor no desire to. I have attempted to once before, but soon discovered that it was filled with a lot of unsavory, arse licking, pretentious little leeches, that want nothing, but to score free anything from anyone who's arse they can happily kiss. Not my style, I was born the black sheep and so I shall remain.I'm strongly opposed to capitalism and fiercely anti globilisation and try my hardest everyday to not support anything funded by a major anyone or anything, though I do understand that unfortunately sometimes compromises need to be made, eg myspace. What can you do?
So, I do not want a record deal, I do not and will never play live, my purposes are simple. Make music as a hobby, listen to as much of it as I possibly can and in return for the pleasure true musicians give me, not only do I indirectly give them money by buying there CDs, I will contribute what I create to this world of aural art and simultaneously state my opinion within their frame work, because after all as Trent Reznor has so rightly stated. ART IS RESISTANCE.Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy listening to my music.
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