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I'm totally obsessed with analogue synthesizers from the 70's and 80's. I used to work as a recording engineer in the 90's and have been writing songs for many years for my own amusement. With the arrival of the internet, I have been able to find an audience for my music. The response on MySpace has been particularly encouraging. I also have a website.

I have an old school approach to making music. All of the sounds were programmed from scratch using these old machines. The drums and percussion were all produced using a Roland System 100, Sequential Prophet 600, Roland Jupiter 6 (when it worked), and an Akai VX600 prototype. All of the other sounds were various old monophonic Rolands, Siels, Arps, & Moogs and stuff like that. There's a little bit of Doepfer modular in there too. I hope to use this more as I put more modules in it.

Most of my songs were recorded and mixed using either an Atari ST, Korg D1600, Pro tools, or Sonar. I usually use Sonar these days.

However, it isn't just about the machines for me. I love coming up with concepts and lyrics too but I just prefer to use analogue synths to get my ideas across rather than guitars or a piano, both of which I use to write sometimes (and play badly). I grew up listening to synthesizer pioneers like John Foxx and Kraftwerk so that's my thing. I’m not particularly interested in 80’s music per se but I guess there’s no getting away from the association because of the kind of instruments I use.

Electronic music (or any type of music actually) is always at its best when there is a strong concept behind it I think. I’m not interested in musicianship for the sake of musicianship so half hour guitar or synth solos really annoy me.......a lot.

Thanks for taking the time to read this far and I hope you enjoy my music.