Featured Artist 64
dabrig
Pascal
dabrig was one of the early representatives of minimal Electro music on Audiotool. From his early raw approaches you could see him getting more complex and coherent in the structure and melody composition of his tracks, till his work reached its climax two years ago when he created timeless Audiotool masterpieces like "Distant Moons" and "Origin of Live". Recently we have been hearing less of him but there is hope that this will change in foreseeable future.
Interview
Pascal Place: Hamburg, Germany Age: 29 Profession: Who cares
- Musical Style
- In my opinion I make hard, dark and atmospheric Techno music. Sometimes more or less Minimal-like. With a lot of Pulvs (from 5 to 7 is a lot for my computer) in it and focused on bass-synth, atmosphere and percussion. I love to spend hours on riding the knobs of the Pulv to find the one special sound I am searching for. Or I discover a totally different unique sound while I'm searching. But unfortunately this long process means my publish rate is almost zero today.
- Musical Background
- No musical education if you mean that. No instruments learned except the recorder in school. I don't think I can play it anymore. But I have always loved listening to music. I always enjoyed hitting keys, drums and xylophones when I saw them until the time came I wanted to make music on my own.
- Started making music
- I started making music very late, at the age of 22-23 I think. At that time I was listening intensively to albums like Stefan Bodzin's "Liebe ist ..." or Jean Michel Jarre's "Oxygene". I loved these sounds and atmospheres so I wanted to create some of them myself. (a naive dream, as I have learned over the years) I got myself a free version of Music Maker and started but was getting bored after a year or so. All those sample and loop blocks, I hadn't a clue what to do with them. Only cutting, copying and pasting all the time ... so a musical out time followed. Then I found something on the internet... a mysterious machine called the Tone Matrix. I really started making music with Audiotool, learning by doing. I was scared by all those devices and knobs but year by year I got better to the point I'm at right now. Still learning more and more.
- On Audiotool
- As mentioned above I found the Tone Matrix and some other cool mini tools on a website called 'laboratories'. I played around for some days, which brought back my motivation to make music. And then I wanted to find out more about the Tone Matrix which brought me to a site ehm ... I can't remember the name I'm getting old :) But few a months later in march 2010 I found Audiotool. Back then when people like the crazydruminator, femme_robot or virtous duck were around ;) and Sandburgen had just a hand full of followers.
- Message to the community
- Thanks to all the people who worked on Audiotool for this unique DAW and to the community. Keep up the good work ... and all this without paying. Thanks Thanks Thanks ... I could write a book of thanks and nice words but I'll keep it simple.
