pHluid / ACiD music handle: SiN
current handle (if different):
real name: Ian Haskin
email address: ian@seamless.org
location: Toronto, ON, CANADA
time in pHluid: [mmyy to mmyy] HA!, dunno, about 2 years I think
number of tracks released with pHluid: 6 or 7 at the most
fav. track released: Mending Me
fav. styles tracked: trance, ambient, industrial/trance
fav. pHluidian (past or present): Kneko's music alway stirs my
imagination in some way
fav. tracker (past or present): Stote of NOISE
fav. track: Liquid Identity (stote), Digital Cloudcover (I don't know
who did it)
professional/commercial musician influences:
Aphex Twin. Nine Inch Nails,Haujobb, Download
Delerium, God Lives Underwater, Portishead, Massive Attack, Chemical
Brothers, Enya
- Short answer
who got you into tracking to begin with? Mental Floss (Andrew McCallum)
are you still making music/with what equipment and or programs? Still
tracking with Impulse Tracker, but I am starting to take that output and
redo
parts of the song with the synths on my Creamware Pulsar audio-card. So
a mix of midi,
tracking, and hard-disk recording.
(where can we find your work?) http://phluid.acid.org |
http://www.riffage.com | www.amphibious-sound.com | (and soon)
http://www.seamless.org
if you could work with any one musician or band, who would it be and why?
Kristy from Delerium: good, unique female vocals convey more emotion
then anything.
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?)
Nope, audio has alway been in my career plans. (too bad I'm a sys-admin
:P)
how do you feel about the current tracking scene? I think the % of
quality that has always been in the tracking scene is still there, but
because the scene has grown as more
and more people worldwide get internet access, it is harder to keep track
of the scene as a whole. It has become somewhat
greedy as well, and in some ways more commercial. We are now part of the
online music scene, willing or not.
how do you feel about MP3's, music piracy, and free music? I have a large
collection of mp3's, but I also will not hesitateto go buy an album if the
mp3's are good music. CD's
are still FAR superior to mp3's in audio quality. As for music piracy,
now that the bag of digital tricks has been opened,
and people around the world have discovered what they can do, piracy is a
given. It's simple: you cannot create a fool-proof
digital copywrite. Only the morals of people who really appreciate the
music they like will keep the money going to the artists.
Free music? Anything I do will always be free. The music I write is
like a diary of my feelingss so if someone else gets stirred by it,
I'm flattered : ].
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