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David Meyer (a.k.a. Deft Flux) has been involved in music and sound from an early age. From as early as age 5, he used to play with electronic audio equipment his parents got him at garage sales, including a car stereo and speakers, complete with 12V power supply and equalizer. Thus began his fascination with sound. When the equipment became available, he began experimenting with digital audio editing. Concurrently, he developed skills as a pianist and experimented with MIDI music. Beginning in 1998, he was part of the tracking scene using primarily Impulse Tracker to sequence his music. In 2000, he began using Buzz which opened up the fields of synthesis and effects processing for experimentation. His music was available on mp3.com under the alias Infinity Limited. He produced two albums as Infinity Limited--"Simple Complexity" in 2002 and "Psychosis" in 2003-- which he distributed amongst his friends.
Following this, however, was a long dry spell for him. Sick of using repetition to fill out his music, his stubborn refusal to resort to it resulted in many tracks being started that remain unfinished. After adopting the name Deft Flux, a third album was put together entitled "Flux Factory", which was never completed for this reason.
2006 was a dark time for David. He managed to finish two equally dark piano peices during this time. 2007 began a breakthrough where he was finally able to slowly finish tracks that met his high standard of originality and variety. These tracks include "Dadelos", "Dearly Unloved", and "Back Where I Started".
In recent times, David has been highly interested in video game music and remixes from ocremix.org. Particularly from the Descent series, Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3, and the Legend of Zelda series. He has produced two of his own remixes since--"Lonesome Hero" from the Legend of Zelda, and "Novel Depths" from Descent.
Over the years, music has served as an emotional outlet for David. Not only is his preference for music that is highly expressive but also creative, he strives to produce such music himself, seeing his tracks as snapshots of how he was feeling during that time in his life. He prefers that his tracks do not contain lyrics, since words communicate ideas and can only describe feelings, whereas music has the power to instill them in the listener.
David is also almost as passionate about software development--his day job--as he is about music, seeing software and its code as works of art. On occassion, he has been known to apply his programming skills to music and audio processing to help create unique sounds and effects.
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