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³Comments  From  the  studio  musician,
Andreas Stenhager:
¹
I  was told that this guy had quit the
'scene'  and  that  his  songs all are
very  old.   The  reason  why I should
review  him anyway was that he was the
most  respected and 'ripped'(?) guy of
all, when he was active.

I  recieved  a  LOT of tunes from this
guy,  and I can't put my finger on one
thing  that  says  that  his tunes are
older  than  others, still active.  If
something  sounded  old,  it  was  the
samples.   They  were  sampled  at bad
rates,  but  they  fullfill their aims
very good.

Okay,  about  the tunes:  they are all
very  good.   He has interesting ideas
that   makes   me  understand  what  a
respected  guy  he was.  He has a good
sense  of melody, even if they tend to
be  too improvised sometimes, but that
is   maybe   to  give  the  tune  more
'jam'-feeling.   If  I listen to other
tunes  from other guys, that were made
at  the  same time, I can see that his
tunes  are  much more funkier, complex
and generally interesting than others.
He  has  good  drumsamples,  which are
programmed  to  fit  the  tunes.   His
solos are very funky, and when he puts
a  bass  to  them,  they are even more
fancy.   In  some tunes he should have
chosen  other  leads,  but  in  B.S.T,
¶Listen  and  Free From Guitar he shows
good  skills  handling  'real' samples
sampled    from    various   jazz/funk
records.   Maybe,  maybe,  he tends to
slip  away  from  the issue sometimes,
and   as  I  said  about  Audiomonster
before,  the  chords  and  bass  don't
follow  the  tune  as whole.  You must
never  forget  the basic idea when you
make   songs  like  Bruno;  you  can't
change   gradually,  you  must  change
clearly or not at all!

A  very  skilled  guy  that  uses  the
medium  very  wise,  but I don't think
that  he is more talented than many of
the others!

³Diesel's comments:
¹Bruno was a pioneer in Amigamusic.  He
IS   early  amigamusic,  and  has  all
rights to be.  He was funky and groovy
before  Nuke  was  born.  But it was a
looong  time  ago(feels like ages) and
that  actually  sounds  nowadays.  The
samples  are  ooold and the complexity
shines    with   its   absence.    The
reviewers  in  Raw  #5 stated Bruno as
the   best   musician,  but  he  isn't
anymore.   Far  from  that!  But it IS
fun to listen!