FiXT Remix

I began making music in 1989 with a drum machine, a casio synth, two tape decks and a cheap mixer that a friend of mine lent me. It was crude, and the sound was terrible. Soon I got an electric guitar, a 4-track and later a PC based midi setup. I took each technology to the limits of my talent, and always found the results lacking. My instrumental music at that time was interesting, for sure, but it wasn't mainstream and I didn't pursue or expect it to find an audience.

Building on a love of metal, punk, classical, and dance music, I began to develop the musical idea that would become Tribrix and even began the painstaking work of building the first tracks in that style. But I got frustrated with myriad difficulties in realizing my intentions and the project lay dormant for a few years.

In 2005, I took it back up. By then, technological advances had streamlined the process of recording, and the first demo of TechNoel, a Rocktronica Christmas album, was completed in a few months. It was a personal project, an album I made purely because I wanted to listen to it. Once the demo was complete, though, it seemed silly not to share it with others so I passed a few copies out to friends. They played it at Christmas parties that year and word came back that people really liked what they heard.

It never occurred to me I'd be making a career of my love of music, but thinking about all that's happened since I first began my little analog sound experiments. But I think I bring a fanboy's perspective to the music- making process, which isn't such a common thing, at least, I don't think so.