ELEKTRIKA
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play lo-fi play hi-fi  GUITARBOY IS DEAD
play lo-fi play hi-fi  EMBARKING INTO THE UNKNOWN
play lo-fi play hi-fi  MONTRÉAL
play lo-fi play hi-fi  DISK OH-FIVE
play lo-fi play hi-fi  COMEBACK
play lo-fi play hi-fi  WATCHING YOU
play lo-fi play hi-fi  TONE E
At all times I liked almost every kind of electronic music -- and electronic gadget :)

I start every song from scratch, write and play it on a synth/midi-keyboard connected to a PC or a simple synth set to piano or string-like sound for checking melody, harmonies and such. I I know my mastering sucks, but I do not consider myself a sound engineer, nor do I want to become one. I enjoy making up songs -- I'm a composer, at best.

I never use loops, samples or midi files, but prefer playing each piece of music with my own ten fingers on the keyboard. This of course requires lowering the recording speed for some tracks, well, who can play 9 to 10 keys per second as is necessary for some tunes? :-)

Just signed up here (Feb 18 2004), so I'd most appreciate if you could listen to my uploads and leave a message on the board, Thanks a lot!
Why this name?
It looks and sounds cool ;) Skifi in the message board says "ELEKTRIKA" is Slovak for "electricity". Well, fits, doesn't it. I didn't know that when making up the name, though.
Do you play live?
I'm NOT a DJ, I do not mix or such. Also, I never played live so far. Which means absolutely nothing since I just started composing music ;) Though I probably could play live, 'cause I can read score and my fingers seem to be quick enough.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
No idea how the music industry has been before the internet, nor actually what it is like today. However, I along with thousands of others would not be hanging around here, answering questions and presenting their music without mp3 and/or the internet.
Band History:
There's not much band history ;) I quit smoking in January this year, so my fingers needed something else to do. I reactivated my almost 10 year old midi-keyboard, which I used to play around with back then, and that's it.
Favorite spot?
Berlin. Without doubt.
Equipment used:
A lame 500 MHz P III and an old Roland MK II midi keyboard. "DISK OH-FIVE" was entirely played on an Italian synth/work station named "S2R", a rather strange and rare thing I guess, still in my possession. And a good old Moog Rogue sits there, an idiot sold it to me for less than 30 dollars. At the moment I'm playing around with Reason, that's it. No other software or such. Need to buy better mastering and synth software in the future.
Anything else...?
Funny, how many people here are typing the answers to your questions like a third-person narrator.

Thanks for listening to my music! Enjoy it, and feel free to leave a message or send an e-mail to me. Looking forward to hear from you!
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