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pHluid / ACiD music handle:     Protocol
current handle (if different):
real name:                      Elliott Lee
email address:                  protocol@acid.org
location:                       San Jose, CA
time in pHluid:  [mmyy to mmyy] ??95 to Present
number of tracks released with pHluid: ??
fav. track released: pro-ambl.it: "Ambleside"
fav. styles tracked:            Jazz, D&B
fav. pHluidian (past or present): kX^Mode
fav. tracker (past or present): Necros
fav. track: Tangerine Fascination (Necros)

professional/commercial musician influences:

Depeche Mode
Information Society
The Rippingtons
Savage Garden

- Short answer

what/who got you into tracking to begin with?

Someone showed me this 4-channel MOD player back on my 286---can't
remember the name of it.  Then I got my hands on ModEdit.  :)

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

I make music occasionally and I either upload to pHluid's site, the MOD
Archive, or my own home page.  I make most of my own samples these days
either from my Korg keyboard or my electric guitar and effects box.  I
track with Impulse Tracker mostly and do no post mixing---it's all in
the tracker then converted to MP3.

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

Hm, Barenaked Ladies.  Why?  They have fun at what they do.

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?)

pHluid hasn't changed my career plans since I figured I would be in the
tech industry doing programming.  But it may be preparing me for a future
career in the software entertainment industry.

how do you feel about the current tracking scene?

I feel that it has been losing its special niche quality because years
ago the ONLY way to get MOD music was to use these really cryptic tools
on Amigas and PCs.  It was a rare art form because you'd hear people
talking about MIDI and CDs and then you could turn around and say "wanna
see what this PC can do?"  A touch of a button and they would be wowed
with this amazing rich sound coming from just a few hundred KB.  There
was nothing like that.  (Still isn't, really.)

Well, times have moved on and a lot of trackers are publishing as MP3s to
reach a wider audience.  That hard line between the tracking world and
the rest of the music making community has been blurred.  Even within
pHluid we're using more mixing of MODs and loops rather than relying
solely on the trackers.  But it was bound to happen.

It's sort of an evolution of the music scene.  The point is: we're making
music.  And it shouldn't matter what you made your music with.  It's all
about letting other people enjoy what we produce.  So, I'm all for the
shift in the scene.  I'm just nostalgic over what used to be such a black
art.  :P

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

While I don't encourage piracy, I think the spread of free music is one
of the best things that could have come from the Internet.  We share so
much through music even if we don't understand the words.  I say that we
should keep doing this.



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