pHluid / ACiD music handle: Troll
current handle (if different):
real name: Dan Gill
email address: troll@xnet.com
location: Chicago IL USA
time in pHluid: [10-99 to current]
number of tracks released with pHluid: 3 (including co-ops)
fav. track released: The Green Mile (for CSR-1997)
fav. styles tracked: gabber or metal
fav. pHluidian (past or present): ???
fav. tracker (past or present): Leviathan
fav. track: Ascent of the Cloud Eagle-Necros
professional/commercial musician influences:
too many to list, but mostly aphex twin, cannibal corpse, fear factory,
crystal method.
- Short answer
what/who got you into tracking to begin with?
who? hmm some local bbs friends I knew from the CB radio were into mods
and I wanted to make them, so we built a 386 outta spare parts and
eventually I learned st3 oh... around late 1995. and here I am today!
what? The idea of being able to make music all by myself, cheaply,
easily, and have other musicians listen to and appreciate it.
are you still making music/with what equipment and or programs?
(where can we find your work?) YES! with Impulse Tracker and you can
find it in the phluid packs of course! or some archives of my work with
CSR may be found at zerion.com/csr (still to be fully updated but soon)
if you could work with any one musician or band, who would it be and why?
wow... thats a really wild question, so many come to mind but are way out
of bounds for what would actually work for me. I would love a groovy
drummer like Chad Smith (rhcp) or Brain (primus) and a groovy guitarist
to throw down with, say Ler (primus) or someone heavy like Dimebag
Darrel. oh yeah, because I'm a bassist that position is filled :)
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?)
It's given me a contiuning outlet for my musical desires and inspired me
to pick up my bass again and hopefully pursue a career playing it. But
nothing substantial as of yet.
how do you feel about the current tracking scene?
It feels distant, shattered, scattered. Untrue to itself. I don't get
excited about it anymore like I used to. Maybe its the content, maybe
it's the people. who knows...
how do you feel about MP3's, music piracy, and free music?
I enjoy them. :) I feel it is a problem on a few levels for the music
economy. But not so much a burden as the industry makes it out to be.
It's much like handing out promotional cd's at local shows. If people
have your mp3's and enjoy your music they might spend some cash to go
to a show and buy merchandise. Just because they didn't pay for the CD
doesnt mean they wont still make you money. Free music? I've given away
my music for 5 years now and never once though of doing otherwise. I've
recorded some stuff with my old band years ago and never once charged
for a cassette copy or mp3 of it. If I had sunk some cash into a quality
recording studio and spent time on a record and made it to be sold. that
would be different. All I am spending is my creativity and my time. And
that does not have a monetary value. It's priceless.
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