Biography
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Ok, where do I begin.... I recently took a rest from producing music and decided to move to MP3.com.au. The reason I moved was mainly because MP3.com had closed down and I had been trying to sell my albums on there (I sold a copy of each album to a m8 in Australia but never got any money out of MP3.com). I currently have a best of album in the works, which is being uploaded very soon. Also a new collaboration which has took 6 months so far, mainly cause it was made in Fruity Loops. After these are both complete I plan to take another rest and then come back and start making Fruity Loop tracks. If you read all of the above, I hope u understood it lol. Thanks for reading...
*He was born on the 5th of September 1979 @ Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. *He has 3 sisters. *He likes Role Playing Games (RPGs) *He owns a PC, PS, PS2 & GBA (He sold his NES & SNES and the speccy's r in the attic) *Favourite Game: Final Fantasy VII *Favourite Genres of Music: Electro Pop, Trance & Chillout *Favourite Artist / Main Musical Influence: Pet Shop Boys *Favourite Song: Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin *Favourite Album: Pet Shop Boys - Very/Behaviour/Fundamental (He likes all of them the same) *Other Musical Influences: Sash!, Blank & Jones, Robert Miles, Prodigy, Darren Tate/Jurgen Vries and Nobuo Uematsu. *Other Artists that
he likes listening to include: 4 Strings, Ian Van Dahl, Fragma,
Alice Deejay, Angelic, DJ Encore, William Orbit, Faithless, Lange/Firewall,
PPK, Lasgo, Darude, Gouryella, Paul Van Dyk, *He used to make music on his Spectrum 128k +3 when he was younger. *He discovered music creation via a demo of 'Music' by Codemasters on the Playstation. *He got 'Music 2000' by Codemasters on the Playstation & PC. *He started buying eJay Progz when he got a PC. *He joined the eJay Community on the 16th of March 2002. *His first uploaded track was 'Battle For Far-Stretch Point'. *His first album 'Xperience' was originally released at the beginning of May 2002 @ Javamusic. *He won the eJay Forum Trance Compo 2002 with 'Free @ Last' on the 26th of September 2002. Some more information about the Competition can be found here. *He won the EJ2DJ Radio Jingle Competition on the 31st January 2003. The radio station can be found via the following address: http://ej2dj.moonfruit.com/ *The Name 'Strife' came from Final Fantasy VII, the main character's name is Cloud Strife. |
After
leaving College in 1998, I remember buying the Christmas edition
of the Official Playstation Magazine (the magazine I used to waste
my money on). The Magazine had a demo disc and this month included
a playable demo of 'Music' by Codemasters. I must of fiddled with
it for about a hour or two, and somehow I managed to make a tune,
even though the length was fixed and there weren't many samples
(don't you just love demos). I vaguely remembered the layout and
when I took the demo round me sisters I redid it, and her boyfriend
at the time said something positive about it (I think he did anyways...).
After that I didn't touch music creation until deciding to ask
for 'Music 2000' by Codemasters for Xmas 1999. Then after enjoying
it so much I thought I would buy 'Music' by Codemasters, the main
reason was to bring back the track I had made on the demo.
Over
the next 12 months (Oct 2002 onwards) I continued to produce music,
new albums, collaborations with other artists and I even managed
to win a Radio Jingle Competition as well. Also during that period
I discovered Fruity Loops and have ever so slowly been moving
away from eJay software. I made some samples in Fruity Loops for
some tracks while I was bleeding eJay dry. Fruity is kinda similar
to Music 2000 in a way cause it opens barriers which make eJay
software very limited. However, unlike Music 2000 it has the ability
to use plugins which is very handy indeedy...