for how long have y'all been making music?

mostblunted · Post by **mostblunted** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:48 pm

Seems to be more interesting then the 'how old are you' thread.

7 years ago I got my first drum machine and turntables. The first time I touched the wheels of steel is about 8-9 years ago .

balazs · Post by **balazs** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:03 am

1992 3 MCs with a cheap yamaha keyboard and tape recorder.
late 90s i got into digging, turntables, loop tapes, mixers.
finally got an mpc about 2 or 3 years ago.

Euclid Ov Oåklånd · Post by **Euclid Ov Oåklånd** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:20 am

I bought an mpc 60II in 2003 then sold it for some rent money, then I bought my 303 in 2004 and have used that since. So 4 years.

Dr.Joint · Post by **Dr.Joint** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:21 am

4 years too, but I've started on computer's Reason & Cubase. After a year or two I've bought my first tappin gear Yamaha SU-10. Then deck, mixer lots of wax. Couple weeks ago I get SP 303 and workin on it

Now plan to buy 2000xl and then SP 1200. Theese two will take probably next 4 years to collect

pt3r · Post by **pt3r** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:23 pm

I've been dabbling around with sequencers (roland w-30) since '91 or something.

plexxsounds · Post by **plexxsounds** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:04 pm

First played a bit with Amiga 500 & soundtracker. Then I got tables and a mixer around 2000 (after dreaming about it for 10 years or so). I've had a 404 about a year now. I also do quite a lot of scratching. I just don't have the skill or patience to compose real songs, it's mostly one pattern and then jam over it!

PHeMoX · Post by **PHeMoX** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:13 pm

Depends what you mean with 'music' hahahaha. I've been messing around with DOS programs like FastTracker and so on when I was 10 or so, but it also took quite a while before anything not-embarrassing came out of my speakers back then...

As for what I'm doing right now, that's basically going on since early 2000 or so, so I guess it's about 8 years now.

Dr. Tad Winslow · Post by **Dr. Tad Winslow** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:24 pm

I was primarily a rapper first, I've been freestyling and writing raps for as long as I can remember. In about 9th grade I decided to start making beats because no one else i knew was, and I got sick of spitting over stolen instrumentals. Now my primary focus is on the beats, as my production skills are surpassing my lyrical ability.

Dj Frantic · Post by **Dj Frantic** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:43 pm

about 7 years. I got into DJing/tablism in 2000. Then I got into production in 02. I had found a 303 on scratch n dent sale for $250!! and after using it for a while I thought it was wak and I got reason then made beats on that for a little while. Then added live...then got an MPC2k and then realized that I didnt like it so went back to software and then my computer crashed and I busted out my old 303 realized I was sleeping on it and then I got a 404 and then a 505 then back to the 404 and now 404 and 555 + EPS and im good

billyboy · Post by **billyboy** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:15 pm

Got into tracking (fast tracker 2) in 95. Mostly techno stuff at the time.
Bought myself a roland keyboard to play blues and jazz piano in 97.
Then I got crazy about hip hop and sampling, bought myself an akai S20 in 98.
Then I started playing the trumpet in 2000. I got ill because of it (gastro-oesophageal reflux disease), enough to stop it and go back to keyboards and samplers.
Started the guitar a few months ago.

So its been 12 years...

alex

606man · Post by **606man** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:32 pm

Since '89 or '90 (I can't remember - there's been a lot of raves since then lol).

First C-64 and hexadecimal programming, then the Amiga like a few more on here (Amiga FTW!). Didn't get any 'real' hardware until about 99/2000. Got into playing at clubs/raves (with a partner) around 2001, right up until the end of last year (2006). Now I'm working solo again and trying to find my own unique sound :evil:

teardropcity · Post by **teardropcity** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:38 pm

I started as a rapper in 1990, writing rhymes and trying to scratch on a Sears belt drive turntbale and then i got into punk rock and started playing drums in 93, and taught myself guitar and started writing songs after that. I started woriking with loops and samples when i got a used sp 202 in like 2001, but i really got hardcore into beat based production when I got my 404 which was back in like March or so.

jbl · Post by **jbl** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:37 pm

it all started about eight years ago with thrift store diving! getting numerous speakers, recievers boom boxes. i got a technics(which i sold later for rent money) and just started coppin records at one point had about 700. i eventually got a sp-505. but then a tornado wind storm thing hit my house. lots of records were ruined or stolen later by the crackheads on our block cuz the power was out 4 weeks.

anyway i gave my 505 to my bro and was done.

a little of two years ago i ended up in japan and started to get into making sounds again.

pt3r · Post by **pt3r** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:10 am

606man wrote:...First C-64 and hexadecimal programming,...

Ah the sweet memories, writing my own drum computer software on the c-64. :lol:

Peek and Poke.

plexxsounds · Post by **plexxsounds** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:13 am

I'm a member of this group called 64MULA, we play stuff from real c-64's. First it was playing old game musics with 2 x c-64 and a mixer but now we play tunes by my friend. Also added electric drums + my scratching & 404 on our live stuff.

http://www.myspace.com/64mula <- there's not any new stuff there, no scratching, no drumming, no 404 but you can watch a demo made on a real 64 with my mates music, and also hear other tunes by him.

Still a big fan of Commodore 64 & other old computers...