What prompted you

When I was in 5th grade, there was a part in Guns 'n Roses's "November Rain" where there were some cool snare rolls (obsessed with the snare rush way back then I guess), and the next year I started playing drums in the school band.

Then, in 7th grade, I got a guitar. In 8th grade, I formed my 1st band (a Nirvana cover band for the most part, which eventually evolved to originals).

It was either my sophomore or junior year in high school (97 or 98) when I 1st got a copy of Rebirth, and the rest is history.

I haven't looked back, except to create this thread.

i liked music and i was interested in learning more. i took two semesters of classes in high school, essentially digital performer hooked up to a korg GM kinda synth and a couple runthroughs of recording drums n guitars and other rock kinda stuff. i really dug it, especially the synths/sequencing. when school let out that summer, i started downloading all sorts of software, bought a synth myself...

jimi hendrix told me to buy a guitar

I've always had the "I can do that too, if not better" mentality when it comes to art, had been drawing for a long time before I'd listened to too much music to keep away from it myself. I wanted to be a triphop turntablist first, but Reason got the better part of me.

i have to say there's an underlying compulsion. i've played video games where i won't let myself get up to pee even until i've beaten the level, and i get the same way with music. also get that way with programming, building circuits, and other such things.

  hahathhat said:

i have to say there's an underlying compulsion. i've played video games where i won't let myself get up to pee even until i've beaten the level, and i get the same way with music. also get that way with programming, building circuits, and other such things.

I reckon these are the times when you know you are alive.

  Betty said:

  hahathhat said:

i have to say there's an underlying compulsion. i've played video games where i won't let myself get up to pee even until i've beaten the level, and i get the same way with music. also get that way with programming, building circuits, and other such things.

I reckon these are the times when you know you are alive.

well, sure, i'm alive then, but it's more about will than life.

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  BCM said:

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I think I was bored sitting behind my computer again, and I heard a friend of a friend talk about reason, thought I'd give it a shot and pirate it

in the 8th grade heard ICBYD, started 2 months later

that's actually when i started electronic. i tried to play guitar in punk bands a few years before

i always wanted to be in a band, i started out in 3rd grade playing the recorder, then in that summer i got one and develop a sence of melody i guess cus i was determain to play the songs that were in my head.

i always wanted to be in a band really when i was younger, i wanted a bass really bad because i was into primus, me and my best friend wanted instruments really bad in 8th grade so we went to the extent of creating guitars with shoe boxes and rubberbands, haha, they did not sound like guitars at all, finally in 9th grade in 95 i was bought an acoustic.

jammed the fuck out that fucker.

by the time i was out of highschool and working i got some guitars and wanted to jam but couldn't because my attention span was pretty much non existant when it came to collaberating.

heard gabber and knew that i had to make it.

started out using Tuareg, then got into fl studio 2.

that's pretty much it.

the main reason i guess would be that i have the ambition to do so

i've been making music for as long as i can remember.

when i was like, 10, i really wanted to be a hip hop producer and my friend thought he could rap (yea, i know...we were 10, but come on...it was LA at the height of gangsta rap). i idolized dr. dre. i had a cheap little casio keyboard that i tried to make beats with for my friend to rap to. my mom bought us a karaoke machine from costco that had a 2 mic inputs and 2 tape decks for us to record our raps, but i didn't know what i was doing.

then i learned to play guitar in my early teens - 13 or 14 because i wanted to start a band with my friends. it never happened, but i took lessons, learned jazz guitar, studied with some pretty famous jazz musicians that i didn't realize were super famous at the time (buddy collette, amongst others) and then in high school me and some friends started up an instrumental rock band. this was around the same time i started getting into stuff like orbital, prodigy, aphex, chemical bros, etc. and some of the tracks i wrote for the band had electronic elements. then i realized that i could take that old karaoke machine my mom bought me years earlier and ghetto rig the dual tape deck into my own little recording/overdubbing system. so i holed up in my closet for most nights after school fucking around, recording a live drum tracks (taught myself to play drums), overdubbing basslines, guitars, keyboards or hooking up a turntable and recording some remedial scratches. most of the tracks sounded like this:

everything was performed live, no sequencing. pretty ghetto.

then i found out my high school was offering electronic music classes, so i enrolled, learned about synths, how to use sequencers, identify frequencies, etc. and after i graduated i asked my mom for a copy of sonic foundry acid for my birthday. the rest is pretty much history.

i've always been very musical, when i was a kid i'd dance and sing around the house, after all of that my mom decided to enroll me in piano lessons where i learnt more about music....i used to like rock, then one day the switch in my brain went off and i started eating up all the electronic music i could listen to, it wasn't long that i was trying to express myself by creating the same type of music

i wanted to make trance

Because I had to.

  catsonearth said:

i've been making music for as long as i can remember.

 

when i was like, 10, i really wanted to be a hip hop producer and my friend thought he could rap (yea, i know...we were 10, but come on...it was LA at the height of gangsta rap). i idolized dr. dre. i had a cheap little casio keyboard that i tried to make beats with for my friend to rap to. my mom bought us a karaoke machine from costco that had a 2 mic inputs and 2 tape decks for us to record our raps, but i didn't know what i was doing.

 

then i learned to play guitar in my early teens - 13 or 14 because i wanted to start a band with my friends. it never happened, but i took lessons, learned jazz guitar, studied with some pretty famous jazz musicians that i didn't realize were super famous at the time (buddy collette, amongst others) and then in high school me and some friends started up an instrumental rock band. this was around the same time i started getting into stuff like orbital, prodigy, aphex, chemical bros, etc. and some of the tracks i wrote for the band had electronic elements. then i realized that i could take that old karaoke machine my mom bought me years earlier and ghetto rig the dual tape deck into my own little recording/overdubbing system. so i holed up in my closet for most nights after school fucking around, recording a live drum tracks (taught myself to play drums), overdubbing basslines, guitars, keyboards or hooking up a turntable and recording some remedial scratches. most of the tracks sounded like this:

 

chris' 15 year old karaoke overdubbed opus

 

everything was performed live, no sequencing. pretty ghetto.

 

then i found out my high school was offering electronic music classes, so i enrolled, learned about synths, how to use sequencers, identify frequencies, etc. and after i graduated i asked my mom for a copy of sonic foundry acid for my birthday. the rest is pretty much history.

i really like that song. is that a recreation or an actual track

Probably when I was 6 and my dad setup me up with an Atari, Cubase and a keyboard. It is all quite vague now, but I remember using some kind of notation software to write notes out and then making the keyboard play at break neck speed. Been involved in music in one fashion or another ever since. Don't think I really came to terms with what electronic music was and that I had any interest in it till quite a bit later, although I have many early memories of recording Eno and Glass tracks off of Hearts of Space.

I found a copy of magix music maker in 2001 and was blown away that I could make electronic music without having any unobtainable gear or an expensive computer. That same year, my parents decided to install a cable modem in our house, which meant that I could finally use kazza or limewire. I found and played around with pirated copies of rebirth, fruity loops 3, and reaktor 3 for a year or two. I discovered renoise in 2002-2003, fell in love, and THE rest Is hIsTORY!!

I started playing Trumpet in middle school and then started playing electric bass in the 8th grade so that I could play with my friends. After I started listening to The Beatles in 9th grade I decided that I my goal in life was to make people feel as good as I do when I listen to The Beatles. Thus, my life is now devoted to music.

  JohnTqs said:

i really like that song. is that a recreation or an actual track

thanks!

that's an actual track i did when i was 15 or 16.

I was blown away by some old school jungle mixes I had. I was 12 years old, and I didn't know much about it. Didn't know the artists' names or the song titles and there was virtually no one around to give me any information, so I started making my own. Been making jungle (my main thing) and other stuff for about a decade now. I fucking love it.

  Oscar said:

I was blown away by some old school jungle mixes I had. I was 12 years old, and I didn't know much about it. Didn't know the artists' names or the song titles and there was virtually no one around to give me any information, so I started making my own. Been making jungle (my main thing) and other stuff for about a decade now. I fucking love it.

hells yeah, this is pretty much the same thing that got me making electronic music and teh IDM's. I only made a few "jungle" tracks in my Rebirth days (was mainly making extremely unorthadiox "don't know any better" acids), but once I got my hands on Reason 1 in I think 2001, It was all really odd drum 'n bass until I grew a pair and entered the Brain Dance production realm.

  catsonearth said:

chris' 15 year old karaoke overdubbed opus

that track is awesome, you got any more such pubescent masterpieces in store? srsly it rocks