JamBam
With JamBam and Retro you're not talking about bombastic Synthpop ballads or tempestuous cow-bells. Without a doubt his style was shaped by the club sounds of the early 1990s. Be it Acid, Trance or the raw Drum and Bass sounds of the end of the century, he's got them all at his fingertips and has only to add that distinctive JamBam something. His track "Set phazers on everything" made it onto the AT Cassette for the Moogfest 2014 from more than 1,000 applicants.
Interview
Name: Jamie Cooling Place: The U.K. originally form Canterbury in Kent but I've lived in London long enough to have a cockney accent :) Age: 26, definitely 26.............. I am absolutely not any older than 26........... ok I'm 35 Profession: Alcoholic beverage intake management consultant (barman)
- Musical Style
- I have no idea what I'm going to make when I open the app but I would have to say I'm predominantly about acid. I love everything 303, seriously if I was from Texas I probably would have married one by now. I dabble in ambient, trance and housey stuff too and I've developed a real love of making dnb. At the moment I've been listening to a lot of hard glitched up stuff like square pusher and there's lots of crazy stuff coming out of Japan (isn't there always?). It's tough to do and takes a long time but I reckon it's a direction I would like to go in, so long as I can fit a 303 in it somewhere!
- Musical Background
- I haven't the foggiest on how to play anything! I did used to carry around a guitar but that was just to get girls. In the 90's my older brother was in a DJ collective called 'Cloud Nine'. Through them I got into the clubbing and free party scene and I quickly developed a love for everything about it. The gigs, the atmosphere, the people you met and all this amazing new music like acid, techno, trance, hardcore, dnb etc. Then working in bars pubs and clubs I was always surrounded by music and I always wanted to try my hand at producing. But on a barmans wage there was no way I could afford all the gear needed. Then I found Audiotool...
- Started making music
- On Audiotool, but if you count air guitaring to Nirvana - 1993
- On Audiotool
- About three years ago I think, I was messing about on StumbleUpon and Andre's Tonematrix popped up. Before I knew it I'd been sat there for about half an hour playing around, I noticed the banner saying "Check out my day job" clicked on it and there it was, this amazing site full of great music and cool people!
- Message to the community
- My mind gets blown by the music on Audiotool everyday. Keep doing it! This site is just brilliant, put together with dedication and passion by the devs and populated by an awesome (if slightly disfunctional) family ;) It means someone like me (a guy that didn't even know what a sine wave was) can make music and even get featured. Oh and on that note - YEAH BITCHES I GOT FEATURED! HAHA!!!!!!! I'M OFF TO MARRY A KARDASHIAN! THE WORLD NEEDS MORE JAMBAM!
