The story:
Seeing daylight on the 11th of December 1978 in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
After residing in Amsterdam for 5 years, I, my parents and
little brother, moved to a more domestic location, Almere, where I still
live. In the years that followed, I developed a taste for music, from
golden oldies to Dire Straits and Queen, but especially for the synthesizer
kind. I tried to get my hands on everything that came out on cassette
(in those days - and later CD's) with all kinds of stuff, from Jean Michel
Jarre to Vangelis.
When I was about 11 years old, I got my first keyboard,
a very little Casio. At that time I tried to play along with the tracks
from Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis. Seeing as a little keyboard isn't
enough, at Christmas a few years later, I got a full size Casio. I came
to play this very well, but like most things you get bored. It wasn't
big or good enough. So a year before my graduation from highschool, as
a graduation gift (my parents knew that I would graduate... and ofcourse,
I did), I got a real intelligent synthesizer: a real Roland. From that
moment, I knew what I wanted to do... Make music!
Making music would become my favorite thing to do when I
got home from school each day. Even in my college years, when I was studying
to become a 'lab technician', I wanted to do nothing more...
So for about 10 years (starting when I was 15), I've been
producing music. Or at least, trying to :-) Starting of with the build-in
accompanies in the Roland, and later on using a computer with Cakewalk
to produce (Happy-)Hardcore. At a point in time, I was given a cassette
with Goa-Trance. From that moment on, I now was certain in what direction
I wanted to go... Trance was the way to go...! |
