From steven Sent Fri, Mar 27th 1998, 18:39
From steven Sent Fri, Mar 27th 1998, 18:39
Greets: I love hearing about gritty sound systems! truely DIY! I am working with a roland d110, PC with SB16, mod trackers, sound forge, rebirth 338, and hooking up to Commodore-64's via midi for those classic cracker screen sounds. Recently I posted about our mail order only double set CD - CHOONZ & WAREZ, I just put up a mini catalog at : http://mycal.net/ifj/ hit the PHUN CATALOG button. I'll add audio clips and more infos asap. One artist on the comp is THE SPOON WIZARD, he makes cik azz trance on basic pc warez, mainly a tracker, enclosed is his bio infos: About The Spoon Wizard - Straight and Narrow version. J The Spoon Wizard is an Exeter based artist, dedicated to both his music and cutlery drawer. His music is of the dance variety, but many will find other musical influences making a token appearance in his deep yet happy tunes. The Spoon Wizard often finds inspiration in his favourite artists who include Eat Static, Senser, System 7, The Orb, 808-State, The Future Sound of London and The Prodigy. As well as writing music for the dance floor, The Spoon Wizard has also authored tunes for other platforms, including computer games and fruit machines - respect to all those who party to the bangin sounds coming from those puny fruit-machine speakers! Equipment and that Surprisingly, The Spoon Wizard creates using nothing more than a PC computer, using a wide range of software applications including FastTracker, Sound Forge, Rubber Duck, ReBirth-388 and WaveLab. As he owns no MIDI equipment of his own, the tunes are created using a PC program called FastTracker which is basically a utility that sequences up to 32 channels of 16-Bit samples. This method of writing is a little unorthodox but preferred, as other industry standard music applications (Cubase etc) are predominately geared to dealing with MIDI information and have limited real-time sample manipulation facilities. Before The Spoon Wizard purchased his PC, he created music using the limited 8-Bit sound capabilities of the Amiga home computer but still achieved impressive results. Studio Pre-production of all The Spoon Wizards tunes are done in the local Bliss studio which he often occupies when Bliss are taking a breather from their own projects. Here, the finishing touches are added with the help of friend and producer David "Bliss" Burgess, who assists in tidying and polishing the tunes (and sometimes the studio). Equipment used to do this includes a PC running Cubase, a Juno-106 and various other MIDI devices and effect processors. History The Spoon Wizards real name is Graham Gray, which he thinks is unfortunate. This aside, he was born into an army family and then subsequently dragged around a fair portion of the globe. Experimenting with music and computers from an early age he had found his niche and progressed from there, getting involved with dance music in the early 1990s. Upon moving to Exeter in November 1994, Graham, by coincidence, found himself in the same house as Bliss and their studio. Although Bliss and The Spoon Wizard did not join forces, he was introduced to Bliss manager who took The Spoon Wizard under his wing. This, along with friendly competition, helped inspire both artists, pushing their music production quality to new heights. Current Projects At present, The Spoon Wizard is concentrating on furthering his own style, whilst enduring the occasional remix along the way. The Spoon Wizard has just completed recording six tracks for his debut album "We Dont Need No Cutlery" produced by Dave Bliss at his Exeter Studio Track titles are : - Damn Swanky Swamp Donkey (Happy Handle Mix) Lower Lip Weird Fashion Beard (Spoon Central Edit) The Seven Spoons of Intoxication (Full of Eastern Promise Mix) Deep Scoop (Evil Ssilb Edit) Decland and his Magic Flute (Spoon Central Edit) One Vibrant Bath Spoon (Spoon Central Edit) The Spoon Wizard has also recorded a remix of The Corn Circle for Bliss, The Spoon Circle, and has also recently recorded a remix of Serial Killer for Stash entitled Morphine Fork No. 7. Those who were present at the opening night of Live & Direct at The Grove night-club in Seaton on 31/1/97 would have experienced The Spoon Wizard's debut public performance first hand. Arriving with a 5ft Wooden Spoon The Spoon Wizard Stirred up the crowd delivering a generous portion of acidic twisted hard house, He was aided by the warped rapping of M.C. R-Soul the original Hardcore M.C.