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Marti van Lin
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Yet another amateur one man band. I started composing and writing at the age of 13. I started off playing electronic organ, later acoustic, electric and bass guitars. Played in a few local rock bands, but for some reason I was never really happy about the way things went. So at the age of 18 I decided to become a one man band. In 1982 I released my first official audio cassette tape "The truth UR afraid of". Followed by each year two more cassettes. In 1992 i threw my instruments into the closet and started using so called "Tracker editors", making me able to use "any instrument" I could ever dream of. Meaning my sound dramatically changed trough the years. These days I hardly release new CD's (mostly one a year). However I don't create every week another new song, as I did before. I keep on ticking....
More information on Tracker Editors in this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker_%28music_software%29
More information on Tracker Editors in this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker_%28music_software%29
Why this name?
Well it's my name ;)
Do you play live?
No, all my music is computer generated since 1997. I don't use any real instruments anymore.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
One of the great advantages of the Interet is that the distance between artists and fans has faded away. Fans can stay in contact with their idols. They don't have to wait any longer until the greedy record company releases another album. Fans can download individual songs and don't have to download (and thus pay) for the songs they don't like. This gives the "consumer" unlimited Freedom and that's exactly what scares the Sh1t out of the "IP" lobbyist. I consider myself a "Free Sotware Enthusiast" and thus publish my work, inspired by the Free Software Foundations philosophy.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
Nope, I want my work to be Free as in Free Speech. I am a believer of the Church of Emacs (Free Software Foundation) ;-)
Band History:
Well, there is not much of a history, remember I am only a hobbyist.
Your influences?
Starting of with Mike Oldfield. I found out he made his entire work on his own, so I thought, OK, if he can do it, i can do it too... right? But honestly to give you any useful idea of what my music sounds like, you could call it a mix between between Oldfield, Jean-Michelle Jarre, Alice Cooper, the Exploited, Patrick Cowley, Paul Parker, the Cure and Enigma... Sounds strange? you bet it does ;)
You could call it: Ambent trance/club electro rock...
You could call it: Ambent trance/club electro rock...
Favorite spot?
Tel-Aviv, Berlin and Amsterdam and totally obsessed with the Phoenix area (and Arizona in general).
Equipment used:
Computers running Open Modplug Tracker on Wine under GNU/Linux. I save my working files in Impulse Tracker format and when finished I save them as WAV files. After this I burn them on a audio CD and compress them to MP3's, using Audacity. Until 2002 however I've had a bunch of real instruments:
* Acoustic guitar;
* a few electric guitars;
* Bass guitar;
* Curna Saz (small Turkish snare instrument);
* Zurna (Turkish oeboe);
* Davul (Arabic drum);
* 5 Casio Keyboards
* GEM electronic orgain.
I had a complete home recording studio, I called Ha Menorah. The nerve system of my MIDI network was a Commodore-Amiga 500.
Currently in use:
* PC: Medion Akoya E2116 i3-3228/8 GiB RAM/ onboard Intel HD soundchip;
* OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-Bit;
* SW: OpenMPT Tracker Editor on WinE, Audacity sound editor for FX and final mix off.
* Acoustic guitar;
* a few electric guitars;
* Bass guitar;
* Curna Saz (small Turkish snare instrument);
* Zurna (Turkish oeboe);
* Davul (Arabic drum);
* 5 Casio Keyboards
* GEM electronic orgain.
I had a complete home recording studio, I called Ha Menorah. The nerve system of my MIDI network was a Commodore-Amiga 500.
Currently in use:
* PC: Medion Akoya E2116 i3-3228/8 GiB RAM/ onboard Intel HD soundchip;
* OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-Bit;
* SW: OpenMPT Tracker Editor on WinE, Audacity sound editor for FX and final mix off.
Anything else...?
Unfortunately, moving to my new apartment in 2002 my audio cassettes, including the ones of Cheese Devils got lost. I know they must be somewhere out there. But where, is the question. So for now only my Audio CD's, I produced since 1997 are still available. This means that the majority of my work (40 audio cassettes) got lost. Oh well, Sh1t happens :-p
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