How did we all get into electronic music producing ??

[reddone]

I rarely meet anyone that is into the kinda things i am , so i'm interested to hear how people got to where they are now . I personally came from a rock background , but started to get into dirty drum n bass at about 15 y.o which opened me up all sorts of electro .

Anyone put together any works over the years that they are most proud of ?

[paul_courville]

so i'm interested to hear how people got to where they are now .

About 1976 I heard Geddy Lee create these really cool filter effects for the intro to the overture of 2112.

I was instantly hooked on Geddy Lee, RUSH and the use of synthesizers.

He was so adept at multitasking various musical instruments (as seen in the photo below).

Loved those fat sounding Moog Taurus pedals, actually owned a pair back in the day!

And the way Geddy would write those simple but highly effective leadlines on the Minimoog, genius pure genius I tell you.

And of course their were the Oberheim pads...



I studied electronic engineering technology at DeVry Institute of Technology for 5 years after which I worked for several music stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

I gained alot of experience with the Arp 2600, Minimoog, Oberheim OB-Xa, Roland Jupiter 8, MemoryMoog, Korg PolySix to name a few.

I owe a great debt of gratitude to a guy named Tim Boone and his freind David Price.

They were "way out there..".

At that time, all I knew was mainstream rock.

They closely followed really obscure euro-electro sound that really exploded in the early 80's.

At that time, I had realtively strong technical skills, but relatively weak keyboard skills.

So using technology i.e. synths, sequencers and samplers made sense to me.

Although I could never find a heavy metal band that needed my services (because I sucked as a keyboard player).

I found solice in independent orginal electronic music... no rules just experiment.

That was the cool thing about Tim Boone he was confident enought in his own abilities as a musician to give me encouragement.

I was working at Lightning Music and Sound in Dallas when he brought in a small Octave Cat mono synth for repair.

That's how we met.

We would get together on the weekends with his freind David in my apartment and just record anything and everything.

Back then it was all analog tape recordings.

Loved those Echoplex machines for sound-on-sound tape loops, real trippy stuff.

Anyway we informally called ourselves Points Without A Plane which from pure Euclidean Geometry is impossible.

Any two points actually define the existance of a plane, but I digress.

We wrote music for planetariums, for real.

It was a gas!

God, I miss those daze.

Anyway, time marched on... I joined the Army, then the Marine Corps, then Air National Guard (go figure).

Worked in video quite a bit, I love creating trippy visuals for use at partys and clubs.

Marine Corps sent me to a killer 6month video school in Pensacola, Florida.

This is where I learned the "formal side" of video production.

First you learn all the rules... then you mangle them! ala Ruso

Worked for a CCTV camera manufacturer for a while, as production tech, engineering tech and eventually engineer after completing my degree.

Now I work in the aerospace industry and teach electronics 4 nights a week downtown San Diego at City College.

I have a little more income these days (than I did as a starving student) to buy the electronic toys I long for.

It's also kinda cool that I live on the beach in Tijuana, Mexico with my hot girlfreind.

I got studio full of cool gear hardware and software but, never enough time to enjoy it all.

Lots of cool clubs and partys to play at down south of the border.

All in all, I feel blessed and look forward to improving as a live performer.

My current goal is to get a contract with Papas&Beer in Rosarito.

They want me to audition before offering 2 nights a month, $200/night.

I'll be needing lots of feedback on my proposed psytrance setlist.

Hope I didn't bore you guys to tears with my story but there it is.

More later, gotta run... Cyberdude


www.cyberdudeproductions.com

[Ruso]

I was jamming on a cheap little kiddy keyboard and playing legos when I was like 7-8 or so.... at 10 I was listening to hardcore and jungle brought to me by radio station 106.8 in Moscow Russia, it's one of the first techno radio stations...

my brother was playing arround with cubase and a midi keyboard making hardcore way back in the day (about 96-97)..... I played with his gear for a while in fact I still have the keyboard today....

about three years ago I was messing arround with guitar+acid pro 3.0 and then about two years ago i got into music very seriously and haven't gone a day since...

[itch.]

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but in all seriousness, i was into metal, took a pill (i found this, didnt know what the f*ck it was, probably one of the most stupid things iv ever done!) at reading festival and ended up in the dance tent listening to aphex twin, then went over to see prodigy live (on my first pill - i am eternally gratefull for this experiance!)

cue goin to loads of local drum and bass nights

ended up at a rave one night and got hooked on raves/drugs

about 5 years on i now hold reality firmly wiht two hands and own my own rig

got bored of playing other peoples music and decided i wanted to have a bash at it myself.

....the present day.....

[Setsonics]

GOt into IDM around 16 years of age,

Started listening to Aphex, Squarepusher, all that IDMish type stuff.

Got into DnB and breakbeats pretty hardcore.

Everything just grew and grew until I became a CBS addict and started listening to disco/electro.

Found a poly-800 in someones garage, they let me have it for free.

Bought a Kaoss pad and started mixing it up a bit.


2 years later I bought a microkorg and an EMX-1 and here I am today~!

^_^

[inducejack]

Went to an underground party when I was 15... saw this kid on the floor with a 606 he let me f*ck around with it for a bit....Then found a korg monopoly in a pawnshop but couldnt afford it so a friend bought it and let me mess around with that. Then I bought a 505 in the indiana trader for 100 bucks...About 17 another friend let me borrow a juno 106 so I midi'ed that up with the 5 and started writing tracks on a 4 track tape deck....The rest is my history

[The Puppeteer]

Started playing music at 4, Discovered Front 242 when I was 18, bought a Kurzweil K2000 and things kind of took off from there.

[anselmi]

i´m a musician and producer from montevideo/uruguay.
"producer" in the classical mean (as brian eno, quincy jones, nigel godrich), so i work with different artists in their records

i received some of the major local awards for diverse musical activities, the last one for best producer in 2006

i´m well known here for production work and for remixing stuff of classic authors of the uruguayan popular music

i also make some original music and play it in big multishit festivals...i use to play a lot in the past but producing albums is a time consuming job...

back in the 90s a friends and i was some of the pioneers of local electronic music acts with an electronic band called AMNIOS

now AMNIOS is back with its original formation and i hope we could start to gig in 2008


check some of my tracks and amnios demos here

www.myspace.com/danielanselmi

www.myspace.com/amniosmusic



a videoclip of PSIMIO, a band i was member from 2001 to 2005

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BqL51zWiag


and me receiving the "graffiti award" for best producer at 2006
(graffiti was the name of an emblematic album of seminal uruguayan bands in the mid 80s)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dfGn_91dOo





gear bio

1991 - casio sk-5 8-bit sampler
1992 - commodore amiga a-1200 computer
1993 - casio cz-101 phase distortion synth
1994 - casio vz-1 interactive phase distortion synth (kinda fm)
1995 - boss dr-55 analog drum machine
1995 - yamaha cs-20m analog monosynth
1996 - e-mu sp-12 turbo sampling drum machine
1996 - korg polysix analog polysynth
1996 - teisco s-60f analog monosynth
1996 - roland juno-106 analog polysynth
1997 - korg prophecy physical modeling monosynth
1998 - PC computer
1998 - ensoniq asr-x pro sampling groovebox
1999 - married...no new gear
2000 - divorced...no new gear
2001 - roland mc -303 groovebox
2001 - boss sp-303 phrase sampler
2002 - boss sp-505 phrase / groovebox sampler
2003 - electribe ea-1
2004 - electribe er-1
2005 - electribe esx-1
2006 - electribe emx-1
2006 - nord micro modular
2007 - elektron monomachine

[acertainpoint]

i got into NIN and early ministry back when i was 17 or so... i kept using a crappy yamaha keyboard and finally saved my money and got me a radias...

since then, i bought the emx-1 and ive had a ball.

[primateoftheyear]

fruity loops, plain and simple.

i've moved through various youth cultures and musical tastes, but it was when i lived with a load of greeks in a student house in wolverhampton, that an animation student called mr. papathanasiou gave me a haX0r warez zomg copy of fruity loops. i made some awful looped noises, but after a while (and a bit of help from me old mate CRITICAL THEORY, who had been using fruity fro some time to make some lovely tuna) i got the hang of it and was bitten by the bug.

i got a laptop and started doing some live sets with ableton to jam loopy live versions of my tunes and thought that an electribe would be the ideal accompaniment, so bought an emx1.

ironically, i havent done any gigs since i bought it and i dont trust the laptop live at all. it never bluescreened onstage, but it does enough bedroom for me to not to be able to rely on it.

i'm contemplating getting an esx1 and a kaoss pad and mebbe something for pads. just waiting for that lottery win. should be anytime soon

i dont make any particular genre, i like a lot of different styles and have a short attention span.

[808state]

pirate radio

[aizo]

when i was in highschool(late 90's) i loved manson and tool. i have played drums since i was 12 and never cared for "fake drums." then my friend turned me on to skinny puppy. it totally changed my mind about the use of electronics. especially, drums. skinny puppy lead me to aphex twin and otto von shirach. at first, i had no keyboards, no computer, basically nothing but my drums. my girlfriend bought me the lame mtv music generator for the first playstation. i wrote crazy s**t on it...but it sounded like crap.
i joined an industrial band(where i was the drummer). the singer had a real shitty pc with fruity loops and acid on it. after i quit, i bought a g4 and reason. now i got all kinds of software...mostly native instruments stuff. and i use 2 hardware pieces. the emx and a roland jp 8000.

[guyus]

hi i'm some new guy that just found out about this forum....
let me just put my first post here.

i got into producing after djing for 4 years now and feeling the urge to put some own stuff out there some day. i think it could also help me to get more dj-bookings but that's of course not the most important. i feel much more stimulated by producing than by djing.

i actually started off exactly one year ago with the emx-1! because my computer was so crappy and now i have a new one with vista:evil: (still have to put xp on that) i have used nothing else than the emx-1 so far... which is sometimes frustrating but i think it's a good way to learn lots about producing music on a groovebox-
i think i will use the emx in combination with ableton live for the next step.

i'm really into dubstep now.. did anyone do some dubstep on the emx? holla

[electrokinesis]

To keep it short:

When I was a kid, I was introduced to Prince.

Then I was exposed to Vangelis, Tangerine Dream and Kitaro through my father.

When I started high school, I developed a huge fascination with
The Art of Noise.

Then I started to listening to my sister's cassette copy of Depeche Mode's "Violator".

And finally, when I was fifteen, I discovered Kraftwerk.

Then it was all over!!!!

I took a "Commercial Music" class in my sophmore year that introduced the basics of MIDI and sequencing.

I've been hooked ever since!

[AmigaHeretic]

Used to to listen to a lot of Amiga music MODs back in the day (Here is a great site for some old school Amiga MODs http://www.modcast.de/ ) and used to watch a lot of Demos from the DemoScene so that's a lot of the music I grew up on.

Played around with a lot of the module/tracker software on Amiga, but never made too much music really. The Electribe is set up very simliar to tracker software actually, it's pretty cool.

Just love the sound of the EMX, it's sort of brings me back to the old days, but it's sort of futuristic too. It's awsome!