Colliss
Together we have started our own record label called
to release his album, "Steps to Leanoland." To hear demo's from this album please click
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
I have also played Bass with a Goth band called Fear, guitar with funky dance band called The Solid Groove Connection and guitars & special effects with trance band Universal Terrorform.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Sometimes I play live guitar with The Leano. We go to open accouctic nights and do Rap Songs. We have accoustic song on his album (steps to leanoland) called Ganjaholic that we play live too.
I also used to do Sound engineering for live concerts with PA firm "High Power Sound Systems" (HPSS) together we do sound for so many bands that I've forgotten most of them but we did the sound for Radiohead, Mica Paris, Desmond Dekker, Take That, Suede, The Boo Radleys, Ozric Tentacles, to name a few.
Your musical influences
I have been influenced by every musical genre from 1977 punk days onwards. I'm still always listening to new styles of music when they emerge.
What equipment do you use?
I write pop songs for artists in a studio with lot of top equipment like a automated mackie desk & hard disk recorder, Cubase for midi, JD 800 synth and a casio cz1 as a master keyboard triggering sound modules by EMU, Planet Phatt, Proteus, Orbit, Mo'Phatt, Carnaval, Morpheus, a roland jv something, a novation and supernova. drum machines, alesis, rm50. a yamaha VL-1,
But I also have jams at my house with friends and we just use my pc and 1 mic. These songs are much more lo-fi than using the studio but we just record stuff all the time for fun so i don't try to hard to make them sound anything special.
Anything else?
Luckily a lot of my friends i record with are extremely talented singers, rappers, toasters and spoken word poets so i can get them all to jam on tracks together and we get some good results. these are the rough tracks we make at my house but i will include these rare tracks for you to download sometimes. These songs will never be released, they are for the love and the vibe. keep checking back to find these songs.
