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Interview

Musical Style

I mainly make bass driven dark drum n' bass and neurofunk, but occasionally I try some other things. Recently I'm also doing some dark minimal techno. The best word to describe my style is "Dark". My goal on Audiotool is to one day make a perfect, pitch black track :)

Musical Background

When I was like ten years old I found an acoustic guitar on one of the closets at home. Intrigued by it I grabbed it and a little booklet with chord fingering fell to the floor. Since that day I tortured my fingertips every day learning the chord fingering and trying to make clean chord progressions. At the age of 12 I bought my first electric guitar and amp. A Fender Strat copy and an 80 watt Marshall amp. Years went by playing cover bands until my brother's punkrock band asked me to fill in for one of their guitar players. This interim job had gotten a little out of hand and I became a true band member. Some line-up changes (and new guitars) later we found a good singer which gave us the opportunity play all over Belgium, some gigs in the Netherlands and even France. Gaining local recognition, we even signed an underground Punk-Rock record label. We recorded 2 full Cd's and we even were the opening act for bands like Pennywise, Bad Religion, Rise Against ... In 2013 I quit the band due to lack of time. I felt like I was holding down the band. My father was a big rock fan so I grew up with great bands like Pink Floyd, Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple etc ... I always listened to Grunge, Rock, Metal and Punkrock/hardcore music and later evolved to listening to Progressive rock and metal (the weird and complicated song structures became my new love). I always hated electronical music ... man ... was I wrong :D

Started making music

At the age of 10 I started composing some little tracks on my guitar. As a 12-year-old I composed some more complex guitar tracks (still very basic compared to the sh#t I've composed later). Helped writing 3 full Cd's with my former band (last one I didn't record because I quit).

On Audiotool

One day I had to replace a teacher that was on sick-leave. The students of that class didn't had a task so we just started a conversation about music genres and stuff and one of the students showed me Audiotool. At that time I was searching a tool to make drums and synths to make Progressive Rock/Metal myself and it seemed like a cool program. So I started experimenting with the synths and started listening to the published tracks. I learned allot from Infy's tutorials and it was so much fun I never even really came to the part of making Progressive Rock. Spent allot of time experimenting before I published my first track.

Message to the community

Good music always comes from the heart and there's no better way to do it with a (FREE) program that's build from the heart. I never used any other DAWs so I can't compare, but until now I always could make what I wanted to make. Sure there is some lag involved, but I blame my laptop for that ... not Audiotool :) My advise to everyone is to make music for yourself and don't care to much about followers, favs and stuff. Sure it is nice and flattering but use this community to learn and share. Make friends, give real critique, collaborate, don't rush into making that next track. Make a track the best you can and then on a beautiful day u get featured ;) Thanks to all Audiotoolers that have supported me during my journey. This feature has happened because of y'all. Thanks allot Audiotool-crew for giving me an outlet to express my (mostly dark) feelings and spread it on this awesome community. And a big thank you for featuring me. I never thought it would happen to me.