Scifax

MyGen Profile GeneratorScifax (or 'Alex' as his mum calls him...) is a 24 year old producer, DJ, and musician living on the sunny (yeah whatever...) South coast of England. Raised in Bristol on a diet of hip-hop and heavy metal, I started playing the Bass guitar aged 10, after dabbling with a green clarinet and struggling to get any sound out of a saxophone! Not long after, I started learning the guitar, but then realised that everyone and their mum is a guitarist, so its better to stick to bass. Everyone and their mum is a DJ too though, but after I got into d'n'b in about '98 I decided to get some decks anyway, just for the hell of it. Then I learnt to mix, then scratch. I now also play tenor sax, a bit of keys, and spend hours gazing at a computer screen making tunes. My background as a musician means that I tend to focus on the musical aspects of my production, and even the harder tunes I produce tend to have musical structures with a lot of focus on chords and melodies, rather than just trying to make the filthiest, most ear wrenching sounds possible. Not that there's anything wrong with filthy, ear-wrenching sounds. They have their place.... I also like to use real instruments where I can, so I play a lot of the parts on my tracks, or enlist the help of my musical compadres- Jer Levitsky features on the guitar on 'Eyes Forward', and the sax on 'Binary Soul' was supplied by an excellent French sax player called Greg. Both these tunes will soon have their sythetic sounding string parts replaced by real violin and cello (thanks to Charlie Lewis). I am also working on a project, tentatively called 'Wiretribe', with Ali RTF, which seems to be leaning towards the heavier end of the spectrum at the moment. We will be putting some tracks online soon. Also look out for collaborations between myself and machine-gun-tongued beatboxer Beardyman (if we can stop telling crap jokes and giggling like little girls for long enough to actually finish the tune we're working on). Finally, I'd like to do a little plug for my band. We play hip-hop with a dubby, jazzy funky edge and I like to think we're fairly good! Please check out www.myspace.com/badscience and see if you agree!Incidentally, I don't really listen to heavy metal any more.