pHluid / ACiD music handle: RS3
current handle (if different):
real name: Royal Sefton, III
email address: triad@shinra.org
location: Port Angeles, Washington, USA
time in pHluid: 1099 to present
number of tracks released with pHluid: 12, I do believe.
fav. track released: with pHluid? Page remix! without pHluid?
A World View.
fav. styles tracked: Childish techno garbage, drum n bass,
"melodic synthcheeze," and especially tonal ambient.
fav. pHluidian (past or present): Bibby! heh. The first pHluidian I
ever heard.
fav. tracker (past or present): That's a toughie. The honors have to go
to Darkhalo for being the only tracker I made an Audio
CD of for listening purposes. :) But I phear
Stereoman, Boris Petrovic, all of TDR, Elwood, Virt,
and Firestar.
fav. track: If Virt's cq-chase.mp3 were tracker-based, it'd be my
favorite track. But since it isn't, Stereoman's
"stuckonthefilter" will do.
professional/commercial musician influences:
Jarre, Chemical Brothers, Beastie Boys, Enigma, KMFDM/MDFMK.
- Short answer
what/who got you into tracking to begin with?
A friend of mine packed a copy of ST 3.2 on his 486. I wanted to find a
prog for writing MID files so I could supply my Doom WADs with BGM, and
I wasn't aware of the MOD/MID difference at the time (don't I feel like
an ass...) Eventually, this escalated into a game design project between
the two of us that, like 99% of other such projects, fell through very
quickly. But I never stopped tracking even after my horrible soundtrack
for this nonexistant game was cut short.
are you still making music/with what equipment and or programs?
(where can we find your work?)
Impulse Tracker baybee. IT all the way. I'd like to get some gear
someday down the road, but I don't see that happening without a sudden
spot of financial gain.
if you could work with any one musician or band, who would it be and why?
Jarre--simply because he fascinates me. He's often bashed for being
"some synth guy that got paid to press the Arpeggio button" but there's
a very soulful element to his work that is unmistakable.
has being in pHluid changed your career plans? (you now want to be a
professional musician, you now ARE a professional musician, you devoted
too much time to it and you flunked out of school and or lost your job?)
Actually, no, it hasn't. It may. I'll give it some time. But I've
released for small scene avenues prior to pHluid, so this isn't very
different for me.
how do you feel about the current tracking scene?
I feel it's going to Hell; and we're all driving the bus through the
gates. :) No, seriously, it's stagnating somewhat as a result of a
complete lack of common ground. The Walnut Creek Archive's support was
VERY much an integral part of the scene and now that it has left us,
we've what? Modarchive, Trax in Space, United Trackers? Please, don't
make me laugh. :) (Sorry if I offend, but COME ON...) It can be
salvaged and I feel pHluid is a very import part in that--it is a scene
group that has sustained, adapted, and been infused with fresh blood.
how do you feel about MP3's, music piracy, and free music?
RIP THE SYSTEM
Hmm, wait. My personal approach to the pirated music scene, if you will
call it that, is that I use it to find hard-to-locate music. I buy most
of the music I listen to, aside from MODs (of course). I own very few
MP3s, and the ones that I do own were made with my own system out of my
own CDs so I can listen to them on my box without sifting through my CD
collection. I feel that Silverchair and Metallica need to sit on it and
rotate--they're losing nothing from this scene.
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