.oOo. Started - Wednesday, March 15 at 14:57 .oOo.
Populus - Please state your real name, group(s), occupation, crime record, etc.
Leinad - Daniel Falk, MAGE, computer nerd, no crime record as far as I know,
um...
Populus - What happened to Avalanche?
Leinad - Most members go too involved with work/school so me and Fabian (Zax)
decided to drop it. Of course we'll use it if we ever release any
more stuff, but I doubt it.
Populus - What's MAGE?
Leinad - Mage is a um.. erh... some sort of group but at the same time it's
not :) We're more like a couple of friends who are developing games
and maybe we gonna use it as a company name.
Populus - Now, am I right to assume you've been composing for a long time, how
long?
Leinad - Started when I bought my first Amiga and that was back in -89.
I'm 23 now btw.
Populus - How many songs have you done since you started?
Leinad - Released about 25 I think. And ofcourse many older which never will
get off my Amiga disks :) I'm rather lazy and my most active time
was during 90-91.
Populus - What's your favorite song, you did?
Leinad - Probably a song called "Carry My Torch" which was written for a game
which never got around...
Populus - Is it released?
Leinad - It was released (so I've heard at least) in some music disk
organized by Syntax Error. Have yet to see it.
Populus - Where can we find most of your stuff on the internet?
Leinad - I'm afraid you can't. I had a directory at wasp/hornet (whatever)
but I'm not sure it's there. As I just recently got access to
internet again after 8 months I haven't had time to get a site to
carry all my stuff.
Populus - What instruments do you play?
Leinad - I used to play the drums. For maybe 12-13 years something. At the
age of 18 I sold them and bought a synt instead. But I'm no good at
it. So drums is the only thing I really CAN handle :)
Populus - What kind of songs are mostly done by you?
Leinad - eh. hard one :) As you might have noticed I like to do kinda
different stuff, with song, rap and stuff like that. It's easier for
me to say what I WON'T do :) And that includes: Funk, "pop" and
soul ? I do have a problem with that kind of music :P And of course
no Ace of Bass covers (one guy actually asked me about that once..
grrr)
Populus - What musical groups or artists do you often listen to?
Leinad - Dead Can Dance, Front 242, Green Day, old Metallica, Candlemass,
lots of Swedish synth like Mobile Homes, Elegant Machinery and
SPOCK, and um... Bad Religion etc... very varied...,
no euro-techno.. please note that :)
Populus - What's your motivation to begin a nice tune?
Leinad - My motivation often begins with some kind of weird sample or
something... sometimes I plink on my synth (a Kawai K4 for those
who are interested)... and then ofcourse, a perverted mind with
perverted lyrics in it do help ;)
Populus - What kind of equipement you use to create songs?
Leinad - Sometimes I use my A500 for sampling but not very often nowadays, I
use my GUS (sponsored by Gravis ofcourse ;), my synth, my Dr-550
drummachine and lots of music CD's. The software is most of the
time AudioMaster III on the Amiga, Extreme's Tracker, FT 2 and
GoldWave for Windows.
Populus - What's your last song?
Leinad - Vote 4 Me, and The Happy Hamster Hop (both released at Asm -94)
.. I've been busy :)
Populus - Doing what?
Leinad - Moving, working, looking for a new job and now working again.
Populus - What do you do?
Leinad - I author multimedia... that includes doing 3d animations, digital
video editing, image editing and ofcourse sampling. I also do some
programming in an athoring tool called Director.
Populus - What's your best 5 songs, you ever did?
Leinad - + The Happy Hamster Hop (still think it's a shame it didn't even
make it to the final at Asm -94)
+ Carry My Torch
+ Kingdom of the Hedgehogs ? (dunno the spelling there)
+ Fear of The Exams
+ Do it! Pull the Trigger.
That's among the released ones of course.
Populus - Are you working on a song right now?
Leinad - Not yet. I have plans and lyrics for a couple of ones but I haven't
had time to get down to sampling and such yet.
Populus - Tell me how you start to compose a tune. The full step by step of
the process.
Leinad - I usually decide which samples to use first. That can take alot of
time. I try to do most of the samples myself. Then I just down and
punch out some simple drums to have a base to build on. I try to get
some chords into action and start fiddling with the effects far too
early :) After that I try to grasp the whole thing and decide where
the refrain should come, do the intro etc and add lead instruments
with all kind of effects needed. Then back to the drums again and
adjust the volume levels of everything so no instruments "drown" the
others and I try to vary the drum patterns so it won't get too
booring. And the the though part, give the whole thing a name :)
Ofcourse I always try to do everything at once though :o
Populus - Are you still using an Amiga to create tunes?
Leinad - I did before we moved (last November). But now I don't have any
room for it so it's gathering dust in the closet I'm afraid. But I
still think I get alot better sampling quality with my Amiga than
the GUS.
Populus - I wonder why there are still songs coming from the old ProTracker
even if better trackers exist on the PC or Amiga. What's your
opinion on this, why are YOU still on ProTracker 4 channel music?
Leinad - I don't do much 4 channel now, mostly rap tunes and that kind of
stuff. The reason for that is that I don't need more channels and
that I want to be in all possible compos at the partys ;) I was in
the gfx compo at both Asm 93 and Asm 94 too :)
Populus - Are you happy with the capabilities that ProTracker can offer? (Some PC trackers have the ability to have multiple effets at the same time, separate volume commands, etc.)?
Leinad - Nah. I don't use ProTracker nowadays. For my last 4 ch (Vote 4 Me)
I used Extreme's tracker from the start and just limited myself to
the Amiga "rules". On the other hand, my multichannel song for
Asm 94 used 3 and in some cases even 4 effects at the same time in
some places. I use Extreme's tracker. There are a couple of reasons
for this. The coders are friends of mine, I live rather local to
them, and I got to beta test it early when FT 2 wasn't released.
Then I get most of the stuff I want into it, it's very easy to use
for us ProTracker nerds, and works well on my computer. I never
liked text-mode based tracker like ScreamTracker. Think it's far too
much pain to learn yet another interface...
Populus - Which mod-maker have you noticed out there that seems very good?
Leinad - My fave on the PC is Zodiak / CDA. Except for beeing a great
composer he's a nice guy too (even though a bit on the slow side
when it comes to returning disks hint hint). Then I like Necros
(doesn't everyone ?). CC Catch! (that good old Kenny)
Populus - What are your plans for the immediate and long term future?
Leinad - I'm hoping to release some kind of musicdisk/pack with songs that
were made for various demos/intro and mainly, game which never got
released. I gonna try to release some more nifty sing-along song at
some future party I guess and this spring, also music for an
actiongame from Mage, called Iron Plague.
Populus - Have you anything to say to all the readers of TraxWeekly?
Leinad - Try to be original. And if you can't, atleast not booring.