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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.

I started off with Rebirth as well.

i was forced to take piano, guitar, cello, oboe, trumpet, viola, drums and something else i'm forgetting lessons as a child. played in my school band. played in the village band. and the scout band. was forced mostly but i appreciate it now. at about 13 i heard dance music via a mix tape. it had some moby techno and klf type stuff. blew my mind open. the bands seemed so cumbersome. moby was one man with some machines. i bought a keyboard, some shitty thing and started writing and recording some really bad techno tracks. then i came across LFO and my tracks started sounding better but still being made on an awful cheesy keyboard, even the drums. for my 15th birthday i got a casio. it was incredible, had proper drum sounds and whilst still being cheesy it was better. i sent my demo tape to siirecords when i was 16 and got signed pretty soon afterwards. my first ep under the name 'carsforchrist' was made entirely on that casio. i got some good feedback but knew i needed to get a pc to go pro. the first software i got was buzz and it changed my life. i threw the casio out and have released 5 albums since then. i haven't played the oboe in years.

  Benedict Cumberbatch said:

i was forced to take piano, guitar, cello, oboe, trumpet, viola, drums and something else i'm forgetting lessons as a child. played in my school band. played in the village band. and the scout band. was forced mostly but i appreciate it now. at about 13 i heard dance music via a mix tape. it had some moby techno and klf type stuff. blew my mind open. the bands seemed so cumbersome. moby was one man with some machines. i bought a keyboard, some shitty thing and started writing and recording some really bad techno tracks. then i came across LFO and my tracks started sounding better but still being made on an awful cheesy keyboard, even the drums. for my 15th birthday i got a casio. it was incredible, had proper drum sounds and whilst still being cheesy it was better. i sent my demo tape to siirecords when i was 16 and got signed pretty soon afterwards. my first ep under the name 'carsforchrist' was made entirely on that casio. i got some good feedback but knew i needed to get a pc to go pro. the first software i got was buzz and it changed my life. i threw the casio out and have released 5 albums since then. i haven't played the oboe in years.

that should be your artist bio, btw.

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  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

thanks!

unfortunately, i don't have any of those tracks except that one because it was on a cassette tape i found when i was taking electronic music in high school and i thought it was kinda cool, so i brought it in and transferred it to DAT, so i could burn it on CD, which was one of our assignments (these were the days when burning CDs was a totally new concept and the coolest thing ever). i have a cardboard box full of cassettes at my parent's house in LA filled with stuff like that, but i don't know if they're any good any more. next time i go down maybe i'll try to see what's on them. i have been a bit curious about it.

i grew up a fuckin screw up, got introduce to tha game bought an ounce and fuckin blew up