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pHluid / ACiD music handle: subliminal
real name:                  Matt Friedly
email address:              idresponse@hotmail.com
location:                   Olympia, WA
time in pHluid:             [0400 to now]
number of tracks released with pHluid: 3-4?
fav. track released:        mindscape 4 / for us crying killed
fav. styles tracked:        orchestral epic instrumental rock
fav. pHluidian (past or present): none
fav. tracker (past or present): none
fav. track: none

professional/commercial musician influences: 

information society, godspeed you black emperor, bauhaus, primus, karp,
melvins, um, the list  goes on...

- Short answer
what/who got you into tracking to begin with?

I've always enjoyed music and played bass for years, i then stumbled upon
the scene stuff on bbs's and liked it and tried my hand at it, kept
chipping  away at it and got decent at tracking...

are you still making music/with what equipment and or programs?
(where can we find your work?)

it's available on pHluid and mp3.com/subliminallabs/ - i do live work as 
well as tracked work... currently filling as drummer for a local band
called  "the artist currently known as tafka knutzaq"

if you could work with any one musician or band, who would it be and 
why?

i would bring back the Jolly Groove, my old band that is long dead... we 
were an excellent live show and jammed really well together... it was me
on  bass, peter mundwiler on guitar, tim sedivy on drums and brother
scott sedivy on keyboards... it was an amazing group and i wish it could 
continue...

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?)

not really, it's just what i do, i freely release my stuff in case
someone  might hear it and like it and say "Hey dude! do this project with
me!"

how do you feel about the current tracking scene?

it's dying and full of fluff music everywhere and has grown so huge that
it doesn't have that community feeling anymore, it's like it's got a
billion  cliques and i hate it because everyone is doing the same shit,
so why not be  the same to everyone, accept them if they're a bad tracker
or not... they  may have just started out... remember, not everyone has
been tracking for six years... I think it's pretty sick that we've got
all these elitist assholes, especially on #trax, where they're all "ho
hum i'm a big name in tracking, i'm a celebrity, you're a dork i'm not
speaking to you about anything and not listening, blah, i'm too 31337
for you" and it's just bull, you know?
hey? anyone think of a way to change this bull around, help me out...


how do you feel about MP3's, music piracy, and free music?

music should be as free as possible... the reason for selling cd's is to 
make enough money to get by on... therefore, if you can make a good 2000$ a 
month on your music, you're doing just fine... this evil bullshit with 
metallica and napster should go away... metallica are just being greedy
bastards and should shut up for a while... they've got tons of cash and
are making tons of cash... these cd's cost about a dollar to copy and
sell...  record companies charge nearly 20$ for the cd, these guys are
selling what, ten million of each album or something? they might only get
about 2-5$ out of the deal, but that's a lot of money... they're
millionaires and aren't losing that much money from napster... if people
like their music, they're going to buy as much of it as possible... if
they don't like people pirating this stuff on napster, then why don't
they just sell it on their site in mp3 format like everyone else who has
a head, such as They Might Be Giants releasing an entirely mp3-only
album... MP3 is the way of the future for the music business, and bands
are either going to have to get on the bandwagon and thrive with it or
slowly die out...i think someday mp3 will be bigger than 8-tracks...
although minidisc should become the standard over CD...



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