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About Me
- About stickman
- Biography
- Having developed a very strong interest in music whilst at school, I decided to invest in a small recording set-up in 1986 - a Casio CZ1 synth and a Casio SZ1 4-track sequencer. With these, I composed music for a six-track demo entitled "The Dream - The Ambient Album". I began to write bits of music here and there and then strung them together to make complete songs. However, having soon realized that four tracks were a bit limited for what I wanted to achieve, I bought two Alesis MMT8 eight track sequencers. So I had 16 tracks to record onto.
Around this time, I was in London visiting the London Music Show. A stall was selling the now defunct Demo Chart magazine, this featured news, tips, interviews with bands and a top 100 chart. I entered the chart several times. This opened up a lot of doors for me and I had a lot of offers to collaborate with other artists.
Between 1988-1993, I took part in "Words To Be Heard", this was part of the Birmingham Youth Show, performing songs of my own and writing for other people. This had made me realise my potential and so I re-recorded "The Dream". the new version now consisted of eight pieces of music, finally, the CD version contains 10 tracks. My equipment by this time were two keyboards, a sampler, a couple of sequencers and a Carlsbro Colt 45K keyboard combo speaker.
The equipment I have now is a far more powerful system than when I started.
In 1995, I answered an advert in the local press asking for bands and musicia - Location
- Kings Heath Birmingham
- Interests
- music, snooker, pool, local history, the gym
- Favourite Music Genre
- Jean Michel-Jarre, Genesis, Marillion, Van Halen, Pink Floyd, The Cars, The New Cars, Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, any Dance DJ’s and music in general
- MySpace Profile
- www.myspace.com/stickman76590059