Around April 2008, after a couple of years as a well established breaks act, Jimmy invested in a home studio. With some money set aside he could solely, full time, concentrate on his music. Being in a duo has taught him a lot. The main studio will always be his home, but being able to create when ever, and how ever and what ever he wanted was extremely appealing.
After a few months of not even seeing the real world Torqux took his first steps.
Also one half of Duel Calibre, Torqux has a great experience of the breakbeat world as a producer and Dj. He would now like to explore as many genres as possible, cross through genres as a Dj and form a Live Act, performing as the drummer.
He has gained support from the likes of Jay Cunning, Reid Speed, The Freestylers, Ctrl-Z, Skrewface, Vent, DJ Quest, Far Too Loud, The Equalisers, The Magnet Men, Diverted, Freq Nasty, The Beat Assasins, Afghan Headspin, Riskotechque, Marchmellow, Suspect, Stenchman, Backdraft, D-Ranged, High Rankin ...
Background
Jimmy started producing absolute off key shit on Fruity Loops 2.3432-3 around the age of 18. Growing up listened to old school rave tunes and his Dads massive CD/vinyl collection. Anything with big basslines and build ups was attractive to his ears. He tried replicating this via some dodgy DnB tempo based tunes. This was so much fun Jimmy decided to study Music Technology for 3 years.
During this time he naturally progressed through Reason onto Logic.
He is now running a Macbook Pro with Apogee Duet, Logic Pro 8 and Fostex PM 0.5 MK II's and 0.5 SUB, a M-Audio Oyxgen 8 keyboard, a Yamaha Midi Keyboard, Rode Nt1a with a PC for Albeton Live, a couple of VSTs in Fruity Loops 3 (Yes, I still have it !). A recent addition is my Roland TD-4 Electronic Drum Kit. All this is in a treated room containing a vocal booth treated with acoustic tiles.
In the studio there is a G5 Desktop, Logic Pro 7, Hercules interface, Fostex PM 2s, midi keyboard, Rode NT1A mic, Shure SM58 and Shane's fucking mess.
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