Lothario
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LOTHARIOs an artist whos really HARD to pidgeon hole into any defining singular genre..think a mix between ROB DOUGAN / MOBY / VAST for the usage of melancholic real instruments - piano / strings, the PRODIGY for some of the breakbeat influence, 80s movie sci-fi scores like VANGELISs work.. and a whole mix of other influences from ALL OVER the joint than I cant even hope to place.. all put into a blender to create this music.. which is all quite UNIQUE and fresh sounding.. Its exceptionally well produced with a strong personality, stabbing like a sharp DAGGER straight to the jugular or direct to the heart.. Its all very catchy, pulling you in with some iconic melodies, signature beat rolls.. and some truly heart stopping crazy dramatic vocal elements - really powerful stuff.. and the power really works best here with all the "acoustic" orchestral elements LOTHARIO uses.. epic PIANO, STRINGS, smooth sci-fi PADS.. etc etc.. they all work brilliantly.. the quality here is very consistent.. seriously top shelf stuff..definitely a unique voice..Band/artist history
I started making music in 1996 with a very bad midi-program, where all the notes was to be played realtime. For the longest time I thought I was never going to be making music on a computer. Then I found a program off a sample-cd called Scream Tracker, which boosted my productivity enormously. At the end of 1997, I had around 150 tracks, many of them very bad I guess, but fresh ideas the most. But this was all ended one day in 1997, when I got greedy, and needed more diskspace on my harddrive. I deleted some important files, so windows couldn't start, and the not-so-computer-geek I was, I deleted my harddrive. The only tracks that survived on CD, was the album "The Psychotic of Mlor", that a friend of mine burned. So I started again, saving hundreds of drum-, synth-, bass-, vocal- and sfx-samples and began making a lot of music again. That ended in the album "When Music Is On Fire" in 1998, a great progression from the last album. It also started a new era in the programs I used. Visiting another friend who should burn the CD, I was introduced to a Scream Tracker-like program called Impulse Tracker, which I eagerly and constantly began to use. I am to date still using this old DOS-program (though it's a bit tricky when you have windows xp). In 1999 I finished the album "Just Fuck'd Up", which again was a progression from the last album. I later changed the album-title to "In My Dream", because the previous title didn't impress my family (no wonder). Also the track "Frontal Asskicking" was dubbed "Frontal". Working on my fourth album in 2001 (including the tracks Hunted, Vain, Number 1 & 2, and almost every other track from 2001), where I used many samples from various Jazz records, I made my second grand loss of tracks. Making a backup-cd before reinstalling windows, without checking if the burn was complete was my biggest mistake (or was it?). I put all my tracks on it, and reinstalled, deleting all on my harddrive. And again, I lost all my work, except the tracks that had made it to mp3 or an album. So I practically stopped making music after that. After a year, and still inside The Royal Lifeguard, I began to play around with Impulse Tracker in my very little spare time. And the tracks evolved, but were still under the boundaries that Impulse Tracker offered. So having made around 10 tracks ("Dumb" being the first) and making endless of backup-copies of all my work, a guy in the Prodigy newsgroup told me about this program called "Fruity Loops". Well, it was a great program, but my years of using Impulse Tracker had grown on me, so I was hesitant to start using it. Untill one evening, where I sat down and played around with three programs: Fruity Loops, Cool Edit Pro and Modplug Tracker. The great thing about these programs are, that Modplug Tracker can open my Impulse Tracker files, and save patterns as wave-files, cool edit can remove the noise and edit it, and then Fruity Loops can sequence it with various effects. And now I suddenly had the perfect tool for creating music. Making the tracks in Impulse Tracker which I mastered, and then transforming it into a full, professional sounding track in fruity loops. And that is where I am now, professionalizing all my tracks, making "Sting" a very, very good album. Twitching all the details, making a red line in the music, telling a story. And again, this album will be a progression from the last.
Update February 2005: Well, now I'm well in using FL Studio (new name, same program). I'm working on my fifth album, and not sure where it's progressing yet. I have recently found out something rather astonishing. The reason why I started making music, was actually because all around me, my world had crashed, I lived a life of sheer hell, and my only means to get my feelings and agression out, was through music. And I can see now, that in the early days I just needed to get out my rage and frustration, thus creating very powerful and hard tracks, and at the time only listening to Prodigy, which is also very energetic and aggressive. Some years after, when I wrote "Sting", the tempo had fallen, and it was a more sinister and mellow sound that evolved. I had escaped from my hell-hole, but it still haunted me, it was always there. And my cd-collection was also marked by this. I bought Portishead, Massive Attack and Air, who represented my mood at the time. And right now, I really can't say which direction the new album will take, cause I'm in a transition phase right now, experiencing some emotions, I've never had before, so maybe it will be a very diverse album, collecting all the good things from my previous albums. I don't have a favourite artist atm, perhaps Amon Tobin, but thats a hard nut to crack which mood he represents. I can't wait to hear the new album, and think: oh so that was how I felt. Mmm.Have you performed in front of an audience?Not yet, but I have the equipment. When I feel comfortable with it, I will give it a go.
Your musical influences
Amon Tobin, Air, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Portishead, Massive Attack, Howie B, Björk, DJ Shadow, Leftfield, Zero 7What equipment do you use?
FL Studio 5, MicroKorg, M-Audio Keystation, Behringer Midi-controller, lots of vst's and soundfontsAll comments (1)
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added your Track to my break station.. keep up the funk man..cool song..yeah I would say moby all the way..