early years
As a kid, I was fascinated by the sounds of 16-bit console games until I eventually started recording the music on cassettes.
...Yeah, I was kind of crazy, and I'm still in love with those sounds, but that's how I developed my musical perception of video and computer games at an early age.
Some weekend days I would chill next to the cassette player while playing a cassette of in-game sounds from SNES games or Playstation demo games...
Did you know that with many demo CDs from gaming magazines, you can find the in-game music by simply exploring their folder structure? -I bought it almost exclusively for this reason.
16bit nerd
/// childhood music
music software ... or crap?
In my younger years, I started making music on the PC, using my saved pocket money to regularly invest in "bad" music software. Just to name a few: ReBirth, Sibelius, ProTraxx, Dance E-jay, Rave E-jay, HipHop E-jay, Music Maker, Techno Maker, Orion Platinum...
Additionally, I regularly bought sample CDs, sound packs, Music Magazines with sample CDs and so on...
Today I am working with a full producer edition of fruity loops studio. This tool is the best I have ever used and follows the way I have worked before with proTraxx and OrionPlatinum. Maybe that's why my stuff doesn't sound like -the new shit everyone's gonna hype-, but it feels like a safe way to continue exploring my inner self.
/// expensive junk
Inspiration
Gaming initialized my "collector's mode" for game music. I started listening carefully to the music and the sounds in games at a very early age. On my SNES I started recording some exclusive tracks to cassette; on PC I captured music from PC game demos from different magazines..
Gaming
/// childhood and retro nerd
Music
/// head and body
Whenever music comes to your heart, it has passed different sections of your beeing. Mood changing vibes, sounds start activating a closer, more carful listening, the brain is pushed into new runs of imagination.
Life is gonna be improved.
Mind refreshes with new ideas.
Breath inspiration.
impact on Tooner's Dark side
Breakbeat, DnB (2000+)
Rave, Trance, House
Industrial & Noise
Metal (HM, Power, Speed)
impact on Tooner's Bright side
Snes Game 16Bit Sounds
Dance, Trance, Electro
Electro Pop
Hip Hop, Slow Beat
Ambient, Atmosphere