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pHluid / ACiD music handle:    JelloKnee
current handle (if different): Lando
real name:                     James Anderson
email address:                 lando@ratloop.com
location:                      Australia! (Adelaide if you want to be picky)
time in pHluid:                [mmyy to mmyy] 1 month
number of tracks released with pHluid: 1
fav. track released:           KickStartCowboy (tough call)
fav. styles tracked:           Trance/Goa/BigBeat
fav. pHluidian (past or present): I like them all!
fav. tracker (past or present): hunz
fav. track:                    whiplash

professional/commercial musician influences: all music i'm exposed to is an
influence, whether i'm conscious of it or not. 

what/who got you into tracking to begin with?

i can't remember that far back!
but i think it all started after i got tracker for the amiga 500 attatched
to a gaming mag. unfortunately i didn't own an amiga, so naturally i ended
up at my mates place every other day.  I'd also like to take this
opportunity to say how awesome the amiga systems were. They were years
ahead of the competition in graphics and audio. It's a pity they died out.


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

i use mostly a midi setup nowdays with a roland JV-2080 as my horse, and
some other synths, software sequencers etc. Nothing special here. I think
alot of musicians get caught up in the strive for quality and new toys to
fiddle with. Mods are the the perfect example to show that you don't need
thousands of dollars worth of equipment to make enjoyable music. All you
need is a tracking proggy and some creativity then you're golden ($0.00).


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

Hmm... i'd have to say a film score guru like Hans Zimmer or Sheldon
Mirowitz.  Purely for the fact that they really know how to write music in
it's simplest form.  There's no lyrics, freaky sounds or beats to hide
behind, what you hear is the notes that they put down. (It's amazing the
lack of actual music in todays music)


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 yet, i'm a newbie =)

how do you feel about the current tracking scene?

I think it's great. I honestly didn't expect so many artists to be into
tracking this far on.  I got into mods back in the day (a good 6+ years
ago, screamtracker rocks!). It's truly awesome to see tracking in full
effect many years later. Someone should make a sci-fi movie about the
underground trackers of the future!


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

I have thousands of mods which i've collected over the years. Some of the
stuff in there is utterly amazing. Mods are the greatest music resource
i've ever encountered, not to mention they're 100% free. Wavelet
technology (mp3) is also definately cool, it allows millions of hours of
music to be traded all over the world every day. This makes for great
exposure and contributes to the success of artists who might have
otherwise gone unnoticed. As time passes, more and more on-line artists
will emerge, and eventually, i think the record labels will be swept
under the rug in favour of internet-music distribution sites. Sites like
MP3.dom pose a great threat to todays industry, but that's a good thing
IMO, cause the industry has worked itself into a marketing oriented
impotent corner (a'la hollywood). "It used to be about the music"
8]

-peace J.K



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