I made the name up for an NME Fantasy Bands Compeition when I was at Uni years + years ago ... back then I never envisaged ever making music, but the name stayed in my head + the rest is HISTORY!

Just makes music so much more accesible + it means all the barriers that used to be up have been bashed down ... does mean there's a load more shite to wade through, but hey-ho!

Yep

In late 1998 I bought a PC and started making music, albeit just putting together tunes using ready made loops from sample CDs. My first "releases" we're under the alias Fire. I started putting my music on the Internet around about 2000, initially using peoplesound, vitaminic, contactmusic, etc. Started checking out other artist's music & dropping reviews and stuff, but got v little response back + there was no sense of any "community spirit" in any of these places. Then I found Electromancer.com and things would never be the same again! I think I was the 19th artist to join. There wasn't a forum in the site's original guise, but as there were so few artist's it didn't really matter; communication was basically through listening & reviewing each other's music. I joined up not as Fire, but as Fudgedubnofunk (incidentally this was a name I invented in 1993 for NME's ill-fated 'Fantasy Bands' competition). I think the change in name was basically down to Fire being pretty boring ... Fudgedubnofunk sounded more original, more silly, more unique. Electromancer was GREAT because right from the beginning there was a HUGE array of different styles of music covered + this continued to grow & expand along with the website as the years passed. Ok, so I had this groovy name + a cool place to put music on the web, but for many years I can honestly say that (bar a few tunes) the music I made was kinda shockingly BAD! After being super-prolific for many years (looking back this was deffo a bad thing!) in 2004 I made just 3/4 new trax ... but this 'rest' seemed to multiply the creative juices and in 2005 I came up with the album 'TeeTHinG' - my music would not & will not be the same again!!!

Hybrid, Ils, Layers of Sound, Irlos, Acolmiztli, liquidscreamer, Thom Yorke, squishmusic, Led Zeppelin, FSOL, skeptical, Pink Floyd, Limon, elmooht, Ed Rush, sonic, urban grilla, Radiohead, the orb, Boards of Canada, Underworld, T-Power, Aphex Twin, AuXin

The seaside.

Laptop. Pencil microphone. Dictaphone. Reason v3. ACID v4. ReBirth. WaveLab Lite.